Part of my job the past few years has been working with a dream team of creatives, curating annual shows for our main gallery at the entrance of American Greetings WHQ. 🎨✨

This fun collaboration with Cheryl Cochran (L👀K AGAIN lettering) is for our upcoming Gallery W exhibition! This show is all about imagination, discovery, and perspective. I’m looking forward to sharing more in the upcoming months. 🖼️

✍️ by: Erik Flesher

AD by: Melissa Forman

Illustration and design for Consumer Affairs. It's great to see a company prioritize illustration in their brand identity.

“Life Advice From Faculty and Alumni” Editorial feature for Colgate university covering a collection of topics and experiences such as Health, Careers and Education, Motivation, Relationship-building, etc.

Illustrations for The Ohio State University. The article is about how alumni can continue to learn from their retired faculty members, through Emeritus Academy. Members come from more than 75 Ohio State schools and departments across the Columbus and regional campuses. During the academic year members present monthly lectures in their areas of interest and expertise, on topics ranging from medical research to art practices.

About a couple's relationship falling apart while spending the summer in Prague. 

Illustrations for a story is about the recently announced George Washington Carver Science Park at Ohio State. The idea here is to show students testing missions and conducting parallel experiments on the ground, as astronauts would in space. Credit to CD, Patrick Kastner, for the concept.

“Lucky to be here” New illustration for a story written by Macalester College alumna Georgia Cloepfil who won a prestigious writing competition in a literary magazine about her experience playing professional soccer.

“10 out of 10 would recommend” How online reviews came to rule commerce, and where they might be headed next. New illustrations for Marriott alumni mag.

New work for the March issue of Cincinnati Magazine.

“Not in Anyone’s Back Yard?

A new pressurized natural gas pipeline pitted Duke Energy against Hamilton County residents who didn’t want it running under their streets or near their schools. With construction completed, the focus now shifts to safe operations.”

Here is an advent calendar I designed and illustrated for American Greetings. You should be able to find one of these at a Target near you. ✨🎄✨

“Big, Bold Texas - The Lone Star State has emerged as a center of whiskey making.”

“The war on poverty began more than 50 years ago, and America has not yet won. We need to address the root causes of poverty, many traceable to structural racism.

What might America look like if every family had what they needed to raise healthy, thriving children?”

“Wine Sulfites and Why People Argue About Them - Used as a preservative since ancient times, sulfur has become contentious.”

New work for City Journal mag about governments censoring the internet. 👁 👁

“‘We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?'” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 🔥 🔥 🔥

"What Does a Good Man Need?" New work for Christianity Today about an excerpt from Michael Thompson’s new book 'King Me.'

Check out the article here: https://lnkd.in/gazb3jbA

Cover, full page, & spots work for the Spring 2022 issue of Emory Universities Nursing Magazine. The gist of the story is: Looking toward the future of nursing and the challenges/opportunities it faces as it emerges from the pandemic.

The topics for the spots cover issues such as resilience, distribution, and producing more nurses.

This was a super fun project. AD by Laura Dengler, who was such a pleasure to work with!

“Be a Buckeye for life” Some new work for Ohio State University. Check out the article here

New one for Northwestern University. “The largest cities will likely survive after COVID-19 despite trends of workers flocking away from major urban centers. But innovation may take a hit.”

Grateful for the brilliant minds working on a vaccine for this horrible virus. It can’t come soon enough! These conspiracy theories circulating online blow my mind! 💉 🦠 🤯

“The Iron Giant” is my contribution to a superhero-themed group show dedicated to a real life superhero, Brent Cottrell, who recently lost his battle to cancer. The show will be up September 9th - October 17th in the Irving Stone Gallery. Prints available. Please get in touch for more information. All proceeds will go to cancer research.🤖✨⚡️

What is our relationship with nature? Illustration for CLA 150th Anniversary Magazine.

"Radical Impact" How will business schools leave a lasting mark on the world? It was a pleasure to work with the folks 2communiqué to make this massive project come to life!

RWJ Foundation - Housing communities in RI took abandoned lots and made them into thriving communities for multi cultures, and fostered food growth via HUGE garden spaces to cultivate the culinary foods of their past.

Check out the Article here.

The Ohio State University alumni mag. The article focuses on stories and advice from the Baby Boomer generation. “At Ohio State, they make up one third of all alumni. Many have no plans to stop working soon. And those who have retired are staying active and engaged.”

illustrations for PA College focusing on new approaches in nursing curriculum. Art direction by Greg Bennett.

Cover of the ski guide for the Boston Globe. This was the first illustration I did start to finish on the iPad. Thanks to Sarah Robbins for turning me onto these killer brushes in procreate.

"Marmalade Sky" for Harper’s Magazine for a fictional story by Nell Zink. Art Direction by Kathryn Humphries

"The Ties That Bind" New illustrations for an article about various roles genetics play in our lives. These were done for a publication called Vim & Vigor mag which is distributed in hospitals throughout the US.

illustrations for Whisky Advocate mag about how color influences taste perception, and how to build the perfect 6 bottle whisky bar.

"5 Things Someone with Depression Wants You to Know”

Illustrations for Dartmouth about the impact of undergraduate research. AD by David Horton.

Your Guide to Finding Calm in Colorado This Year

Our 2019 toolbox of strategies, places, workouts, and resources to help you chill out.

Revitalizing Your Body

Quieting Your Mind

Loving Your Space

Renewing Your Spirit

New work for the winter issue of City Journal mag. The story is about internet echo chambers, viral swarming and social media confirmation of everyone's version of the truth controlled by algorithms, comparing the old days of blogs, which the author sees as genuine citizen journalism.

💧🔦 Full page illustrations for City Journal mag - the story is about the devastation that often comes along with the family court system. The first one goes into how overburdened the judges are and how damaging it is to children when parents endlessly fight over them, etc. The second one shows how everyone involved in the process can feel lost in the endless maze of the system.*B&W for print / color for web.

Recent cover for Tufts University about the importance schools put on students knowing a second language.

AD: David Horton

Global Brief mag - the article is about Canada’s “Four-Point Game” aka ACRE.

"The Lobbyist Hit List" new illustration for a story about the various issues the real estate industry's lobbyists have on their agendas in Washington. Art direction: Paul Dilakian

A little series for a fun project about every type of mushroom you need to know about. More to come...🍄

Cover + spread for the March, 2017 issue of Christianity Today mag.

Illustrations for an article about automation and how it hasn’t been as destructive to manufacturing as commonly believed.

Feature + spots for NYIT.

Annual Report illustration for Boston Community Capital.

Please visit my shop for information on ordering prints.

Cover + Feature for the UT Journal.

Series of illos done for a Miraval Resort in Tucson.

Get it here.

Some recent work about the proliferation of drones for

Common Ground magazine. 

Art Direction: Cori Canady

Time capsule illustration for Wake Forest University.

AD: Hayes Henderson

Spring campaign for the NYT

AD: Bailey Kology

Alumni profile of Carly Zakin - Zakin and her friend Danielle Weisberg are the co-founders of @theskimm (theskimm.com), an email compilation of the day’s news that has quietly become a morning regimen for millions of professional women. Its slogan: “Making it easier for you to be smarter.”

Get it here

New one for @diablomagazine about teaching students mindfulness as a way to cope with today's challenges.

Harvard graduate school of arts and sciences alumni magazine.

"Access to Academia” about efforts to help connect underrepresented minority college students with faculty at Harvard in order to go on to grad school and beyond.

It was a pleasure to work with Fritz Klaetke and the folks at visual dialogue.

Check out some recent work I did for the July issue of Cooking Light magazine. The article is all about the importance of staying hydrated.

Art direction by:  Nicole Gerrity

"Play to Your Strengths"

Edgewater Park mural for the new American Greetings WHQ in Cleveland Ohio.

Art Direction: Justin Raines

"Global Agenda 2015" done for the New York Times and its Syndicates.

A look at events that will shake, or gently rattle, the world in 2015.

Art Direction: Anita Patil

Urban Legends

Illustrations for the feature article for the Autumn 2014 edition of Scene magazine.

The article features scholarship by a professor that explores ways that humans are impacting the Earth. His book is entitled The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism. It challenges the perceptions of environmental impacts of rural and urban settings.

Check out the article here.

Art Director: Karen Luciani 

Building School Morale

Get a print here!

 Art Director: Judi Connelly

Mindset of the Millennial

Art Directed by Erin Lucas

Quiz: Do You Suffer from Electronic Overload?

illustrations for the February ’14 issue of O mag..

 They ended up going with the one on the top..

 Art Director: Jose Fernandez

Art direction by Robin Awes

Feature and Spots for Virginia Living magazine on a story about how people in their 50’s and 60’s are no longer retiring but actually going into perhaps, new careers or doing really cool things with there lives…not moving to retirement developments but instead traveling, writing novels, getting into Olympic racing etc.

AD: Sonda Pappan

Package design for web and product.

Thanks to Bill and Lee at subzerodesign.

More than 1.3 million Coloradans are about to start turning 65—a population shift that will redefine senior health and living.

Check out the entire article here.

Art Director: Dave McKenna

Fast-Track Your Refund

Art Direction: Shannon Magann, Erin Lucas

Cover + Spots for New York Institute of Technology magazine. Article about NYIT’s mission to improve access to health care by increasing the number of primary care physicians.

Check it out here.

Art Direction: Julie Godsoe & Marc Blaustein

The future of mobile advertising.  Check out the article here.

Art Director: Carrie Gee

How to Save More on Mobile

Art Direction: Erin Lucas

Global Agenda 2013

Map of 2013/14 world events.  Done  for the New York  Times/ International Tribune.

Read the article here.

Art Director: Olga Rapoport

Making Friends as an Adult

 How to get past the awkwardness of reaching out to new people.

Art Director: Stephanie Glaros

Illustration for a Canada Post sponsored event focused on Direct Mail. 

Art direction by Irina Masikat and the folks at Publicis Hawkeye.

Airways Magazine

A map of Honduras for American Airlines, Airways magazine.

Art Director: Betsy Semple

I had the pleasure of designing the shirt for the 2013 Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon.

Art director: Mark Mueller

Get it here!