Andrew DeGraff

Why do we have this obsession with these games from childhood that become adult passions and professions?

Bill Belichick, Nick Saban, and Pete Carroll explore their post-retirement pastimes.

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Lebron James becomes the NBA’a All-Time Leading Scorer, an incredible feat.

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SIKids interviewed Bill Nye about if sports on an alien planet might exist and what they might look like. Nye reasoned that likely it would be a water world, and so intelligent life would likely play below the waves.

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With the advent of COVID and the hiatus of most traditional leagues, SIKids imagines some new twists on conventional sports.

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SIKids investigates the ideal stadiums for socially distanced sports stadiums.

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Opening illustration featuring Ozzie Guillen and the 2012 Marlins - a turkey team: a team that was supposed to be a powerhouse that turned into a disaster.

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SI Kids focuses on some of the most unsatisfying stalemates in sports history, including two famous Notre Dame games in 1946 and 1966.

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LeBron James tipping the balance of power in the NBA even more to the West with his trade to LA.

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A look at past Presidents and their sport of choice.

The line between the professional and amateur levels have blurred. The effect personified by NFL coaches like Belichick moving between the ranks and taking the Head Coaching job at UNC. The roles of college athletic directors have changed as well, leading to more GM type roles at the college level as well as pro GMs in college roles.

The ever idiosyncratic Novak Djokovic has some novel ways to deal with the pressure cooker of Grand Slam Tennis and quiet the noise.

The traditionally basketball-centric ACC has been beefing up its football cred leading to a power struggle with ACC commissioner Jim Phillips caught in the middle.

The 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia AND New Zealand lead to some truly phenomenal travel distances both to get to the event and between games.

The adoption of new rules to speed up play in the ‘23 season are part of a long history of tweaks to the game.

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Kevin Durant and Sean Marks relationship is complicated.

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In what seemed to be an almost cosmically unlikely event, the NY Giants and NY Jets both got off to a pretty good start in the ‘22-’23 season.

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SI Digital Cover featuring possibly the new best rivalry in baseball, Dods vs Pads.

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Sam Ehlinger and the Texas Longhorns’ return to relevance.

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A big honor to get the cover of SI. The 2017-18 season has been marred by the injuries of many high profile players and Pro-Bowlers, with many season ending injuries. 

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An endlessly fun thought experiment in which 12 GMs - a slew of NFL execs, former real life NFL GMs, NFL scouts and sportwriters - took a crack at drafting from the entire roster All-time Greats. I loved digging around for old reference of the draft from before it became a TV extravaganza and instead was an analog coffee-fueled stress test in a hotel conference room. 

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This map catalogs a nationwide college football themed roadtrip catching 21 key matchups and rivalries along with some classic Americana over the course of 15 weeks. 

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Facing mounting pressure on all sides from issues with CTE, debilitating player injuries, sexual and domestic violence allegations and convictions, and often tone-deaf responses from management SI asks if the NFL as we know it can continue.

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Tega Cay, SC has decided to not offer tackle football to it's younger participants due the risk of head trauma and injury and instead promotes flag football as a safer alternative. 

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Felix White of the British band The Maccabees developed a love of baseball wile touring in the US, especially those ever lovable Metsies. I'm quite fond of them myself.

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Illustration about the long personal and professional friendship of two of football’s biggest names in coaching - Nick Saban of the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide and Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.

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With pressure mounting due to ongoing concerns about CTE, the NFL is considering all options to improve safety. Some are kitty friendly.

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Cheers reimagined for the present day bar culture but with the same old regulars to accompany a piece by Steve Rushin.

Art Director: Nicole Zigmont

Full page illustration depicting the Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly. The story detailed the complicated and intricate restructuring Kelly initiated to overhaul the team. 

Americas’s creaking power grid is susceptible to natural disaster and not easily incorporated with new technology.

The complicated world surrounding the lower efficiency and higher polluting replica engines which were tied up in a regulatory bind due to the end of special carve out in 2016 that allowed larger production lines.

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I was honored to create one of the maps used in Wes Anderson’s latest film, “The Phoenician Scheme”. I hope to show some more development on this in the future!

Marvel Ten Realms were based off of Norse Mythology and mixed with Jack Kirby’s fantastic surreal and psychedelic vision into an incredible pastiche of science fiction and medieval magic. The original nine are Asgard, Midgard (Earth), Vanaheim, Alfheim, Nidavellir, Jotunheim, Niffleheim, Svartalfheim, and Muspelheim and recently expanded with cast out realm of Heven, dominion of the Angels.

Marvel’s cosmic neighborhood is a busy place. It boasts three Empires: the Shi’Ar, the Kree, and the Skrull, many humanoid species, as well as many non humanoid.

Marvel’s various “Hells” have created a their own hierarchy of devils and demi-gods who control the various Underworlds of the Marvel Universe. Some are demons like Belasco and Thog, while others more versions of conventional “Satans” like Mephisto, Marduk Kurios, and Satannish. At the bottom is the One Below All, one half of universe spanning power of destruction and hate, and a source of power for the Hulk.

Born out of the Iron Fist character, the Seven Capital Cities exist in pocket dimensions tied to the real Earth located in Southeast Asia and Africa. Each city also has it’s champion - an Immortal Weapon the is it’s city’s protector.

Ta-Nehisi Coates penned this incredible arc for Black Panther in which a group of Wakandan explorers sent to find the origins of the vibranium asteroid that helped create Wakanda. The crew hit a temporal anomaly which sent it back thousands of years, and out of that event they fought to survive and created a brutal colonizing force: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.

From the 2024 August issue about water resources in Texas and who’s using/wasting them. The left about a model for building design that encourages water sustainability, and the right about proper lawn irrigation.

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The world of Bitcoin is populated with miners, dreamers, thieves, shadowy interests, and idealists.

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The world of Bitcoin is also, for the moment, supremely devoid of responsible “sheriffs”.

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I was delighted to have the opportunity to create the 140th Anniversary illustration for MECA&D’s self promotional and marketing materials. The illustration features elements from various art and social movements over the last 140 years of the school’s existence. The image is in a loose timeline from top right to bottom left.

The image was created to potentially be silkscreened in various color ways.

Art Direction by @pentagramdesign under #LukeHayman, @emilyoberman, and teams

“Bandersnatch” was an interactive movie created for the Black Mirror series. The map plots every possible storyline and decision point in the film.

One of the later sketches for the Bandersnatch map.

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This map shows every graduate and undergraduates color-coded route to Harvard Yard, as well as nearly all of the buildings that comprise the University’s sprawling footprint in Cambridge and Boston.

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I really appreciate a chance to take my “Unfinished Construction Sites” into the editorial world to create this expressive map of China’s Belt and Roads Initiative, and the numerous obstacles in it’s present and future.

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The opener for a set of illos based on Ian Aldrich's story "Leaf People". A native New Englander, Ian took a bus tour of New England to see the tourist industry from the inside, and meet the folks who made his home turf into their destination.

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A map of the route featuring some of the various points of interest.

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A group shot of the tour, with a little extra New England paraphernalia tossed in for good measure.

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The tour ended on the lovely coast of Maine accompanied by a little sunset glow before the return trip to Boston.

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Cover and feature article about traveling around the country to hear from the best golf course superintendents.

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I was thrilled to be contacted by Justin Simien’s office to create an illustrated map T-shirt design for his brilliant Netflix show “Dear White People”, which follow the characters from the brilliant movie of the same name. Winchester University is the fictional Ivy League school that serves as the setting for the show, and the shirt notes a few elements that are undercurrents of the college’s culture.

The shirt is available here.

Many of the building use exteriors from UCLA, with some other locations. But the show rarely shows the full building so I had to put that together myself. I cobbled together a pastiche of architectural modes from other Ivies to try and get the right mix of new and old construction, while still maintaining the feel of the settings you see in the show.

This is an earlier version with some more little easter-eggy components from Seasons 1 and 2. If you know the show, you might recognize the allusions.

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Op-Ed illustration for Cooper Quintin’s story about the lack of security built into our aging cellular networks.

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Kansas' State Legislature overturned Gov. Sam Brownback Budget veto, effectively ending Kansas' supply-side economics experiment and raising income taxes.

No Child Left Behind made schools worse. The new education act will help make them better, by moving much of the responsibility back to individual states.

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Cover of the Sunday Review section for a story about the need to find happiness in yourself and the people around you, instead of endlessly seeking external fulfillment.

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Interior spot for the same story showing the 10th century emir of Cordoba, Spain, Abd Al-Rahman III, based on a quote from his writings in which he stated: "I have now reigned above 50 years in victory or peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity." He went on to write: "I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to 14."

The Green New Deal would be one a groundbreaking step toward real action on climate change by addressing the problem on an adequate scale.

I began this as a traditional/digital demo for the fantastic Jamie Hogan's Third Year Illustration Class at MECA. Between working on my little reformatted laptop and with an audience, I didn't get very far. But, I finished him afterwards, and I'm pretty happy with the result. 

A piece for an American pop culture show commemorating one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, Teddy Roosevelt.

Another extended gouache experiment about one of my favorite activities - "hopeful boat sitting".

An early extended experiment with gouache, and a bit of an homage to the feel of 60's and 70's sports illlustrations of illo hall of famer Bernie Fuchs. It was selected for the Society of Illustrators 2011 Annual.

Another experiment in paint, and another homage to subject I found interesting through the great illustrators of the past.

A small gouache demo I did for my Illustration Methods & Media I class.

A collection of portraits of our Vice Presidents created during a self-imposed thirty day challenge to create a painting a day. Here they are in chronological order from Adams (top left) to Dawes (bottom right).

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Initially, this was just going to be a diagram but we decided to go ahead and animate it to show a bit more of the inner workings. The M44 is a devilishly fiendish and dangerous little device. Read the article here. 

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A piece about the sad state of our roads and bridges, and a proposed 25¢ Gas Tax funding a slew of potential projects to alleviate the overstressed system.

I had fun doing these sketches - I love infrastructure! And new technology solutions. AND maps. Win-win-win for me.

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This piece was created for the "Blue Man World" Book by the Blue Man Group to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. If you look around the image you can find references to the BMG's six permanent shows in NY, Chicago, Boston, Universal Studios in Orlando, Las Vegas (at the Luxor) and Berlin.

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Beverly Hills was in contact with autonomous car manufacturers about creating a self-driving shuttle for residents, as well as shutting down Rodeo Drive for self-driving car demonstrations. 

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An illustrative synopsis of the magazine's feature stories for their January 2016 issue.

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Uber along with other growing Silicon Valley companies that could become publicly traded (or Unicorns) are deciding to not go public, retaining control and much of the capital. In so doing, the also keep middle class investors out of the potential tech money grab.

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This piece was created to accompany Elijah Wolfson's argument about the declining state of American football. Wolfson argues that football has gone from being a good contact to sport to an incomprehensible mess of litigiously written rules which are eroding the core of the game.

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A story about Park Slope parents meeting for drinks during the day when bars aren't so busy.

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A Park Slope heroin ring was foiled due their inability to maintain a "low-key" apprearance, namely riding around in a red Can-Am Spider, with a "Sin City" helmet, and toting the heroin in Sephora bags.

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A prohibition style bar opening in Chelsea featuring a bathtub in the middle of the bar, a reference to "Bathtub Gin" made by bootleggers.

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A story about the new wave of NY bars with Skeeball, arcade games, and childlike gimmicks, and asking the question "Whatever happened to the good ol' fashioned bar?"

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Pulling together various theme park rides from around the world, this map creates a sort of fictional theme park, with call-outs to show how Johnny Knoxville would put his own special spin on them.

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A roundup up of the weekly events in the NYC knitting community. 

Art Director: Carole Otypka

A spread for a story on the various concerts performed and their impact on students at Penn State over the years.

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Two spot illustrations about the possible dangers of kids growing up texting, and the compromising effect it could have on written language skills.

Art Director: Valerie Downes

Spot Illustration dealing with the problem of what teachers can tell parents who object to California's new law on gay history in textbooks.

Art Director: Lisa Lewis

Illustration for a review of Generation Kill author Evan Wright's second book, Hella Nation.

This piece was commissioned by the National Pastime Museum and commemorates one of the most controversial plays of all time, the Merkle Boner, or Merkle's Boner. Through a convoluted series of events, a small baserunning error by Fred Merkle (under a previously unenforced rule) caused the NY Giants to lose a late season game to the Cubs. The season ended in a tie between the Cubs and the Giants, and then a one game playoff which the Giants lost. The Cubs went on to win the World Series, their last of the 20th century. Fred Merkle never lived down his small mistake, and it haunted him for the rest of his life.

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This time-lapse runs a little over 4 minutes.

This is another commission for the lovely folks at the National Pastime Museum. This painting commemorates what was possibly the longest homerun ever hit, by none other than George Herman "Babe" Ruth, from inside the walls of Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Reportedly, the dinger sailed 650 feet (a much disputed figure) the day that Murderer's Row got sent "Up the River" to scrimmage the Sing Sing's Mutual Welfare League team, the "Black Sheep".

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The time-lapse is a little under three minutes.

I certainly don't want to glorify corporal punishment, but I guess there's something I find darkly comedic about it. I personally think it's absolutely wrong - there's never a need to hit a child. But, it's happened throughout the ages. Heck, I got spanked every once in a while - and that terrible feeling of 1: getting caught, and 2: you're going to feel some pain . . . Well it leaves mark one might say. 

Some more fun with surface pattern and addition and subtraction with gouache.

The initial sketch, minus the title.

I was really inspired by the engraving in the upper left, and wanted to update it and build it into a new piece with a little more narrative.

Art Director: Beth Kamaroff

Full page illustration for story showing ways to work smarter with Windows software.

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Illustration for an article contrasting Google's ubiquitous uses and features with it's ability to acquire data on it's users.

Art Director: Beth Kamaroff

A piece about industry experts and other search engines trying to capture the secret to Mozilla's free Firefox browser.

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Spot illustration for a story about the ability of criminals to utilize wifi to ensnare unsuspecting users.

Art Director: Annemarie Neff

A story about doctors banding together in ACO's to avoid being swamped from the costs and unknown effects of Obamacare and changes to Medicaid.

Art Director: Jennifer Wenger

Illustration to accompany an article about medical professionals preparing for retirement,

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The dilemma of Doctor in advising patients to make better life choices without being pedantic or overbearing.

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A piece about preparing and planning for all the variables before moving a medical practice to a new city or state.

Art Director: Annemarie Neff

The story was relating the difficulties established medical practices could undergo with the onslaught of previously uninsured twenty-somethings who would now be covered under Obamacare.

A story about health care professionals using techniques to cope with the high stress issues of their jobs. Not only themselves, but to put their patients at ease as well.

Art Director: Larry Gendron

Cover illustration about the forecasted lower financial expectation in the coming year, and mitigating risk factors.

Art Director: Tony Judge

A visual tour of the seven golf courses designed by Pete Dye in his adopted home state of Indiana.

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Half page spot illustration about the famed blues musicians and blues clubs on Mississippi's Blues Highway including James Cotton, Robert Johnson, Pinetop Perkins, and Harold "Hardface" Clanton.

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Illustrated map of the Timicuan Ecological & Historic Preserve in northern Florida.

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An illustrated map profiling of some points of interest in Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest around El Yunque, it's highest peak.

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Type illustration for a feature on Florida's coastal highways and side roads.

This image was created for the 30 Reasons campaign in the run up to the 2008 Election. 30 Reasons is an email list that sends out 30 days of art, design and illustration in favor of Democratic presidential candidates, in this case Barack Obama. Offshore drilling was a significant part of the Republican energy plan, and the "Drill Baby Drill" chant was often used at Republican rallies. 

Art Director: Dean Quigley

A neighborhood map of Manhattan use to illustrate the respective neighborhoods of celebrity residents.

Art Director: Maureen Adamo

Cover illustration about former Nevada Senator John Ensign's  scandal involving an extramarital affair.

Art Director: Maureen Adamo

A cover and interior illustrations about the revenge of the turkey.

Spot illustration about smarter cars and traffic management reducing  emissions.

Art Director: Maureen Adamo

A story about 702-Traffic, an ethically dubious law firm specializing in manipulating traffic law.

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The wealthy metro area of Baltimore investigates some new ways to breakdown barriers and connect the city and suburban and ex-urban areas in new ways.

Art Director: Kathryn Mychailysyzn

A "year in review" countdown featuring Monique, Justin Bieber and others.

Art Director: Rachel Perkins

In California, Mel Gibson was up on charges threatening his then girlfriend over the phone. The calls were secretly recorded by her, also while in California. Had the events transpired across the border in Nevada, the tapes wouldn't have been admissable in Nevada courts, due to a technicality of Nevada state law.

Art Director: Rob Schultz

An article about using multiple devices when you travel, and ensuring the security of the network.

Art Director: James Tischler

This design incorpated 9 different bears (or at least animals commonly known as bears), with the top left logo mark designed by my cousin and great designer, James Tischler.

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If you notice a name change, it's not a typo. The Archive was a Bushwick/East Williamsburg coffeeshop, and sadly closed around 2011. But the team lived much as the spirit of the shop it was inspired by - as an independent.