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Adrián Astorgano Captures that Awkward Moment at the Self-Checkout for The Washington Post
For a Washington Post opinion piece arguing that Connecticut should limit self-checkout lanes, Adrián Astorgano freezes the moment of hesitation. A shopper clutching his basket, caught between a grid of kiosks glowing with red Xs and a lone cashier giving him a slightly unimpressed look from her register. Red light from the nearest screen catches the edge of his hoodie like an icing of guilt. Staging it all with a clean isometric composition makes the awkwardness worse.
Simone Noronha Lights Up Zara Larsson for The New Yorker
Simone Noronha illustrated The New Yorker’s profile of Zara Larsson and her “Midnight Sun” tour. The piece is a tight crop on Larsson mid-performance, a tropical flower tucked behind one ear. Rendered in Noronha’s high-saturation palette with soft airbrush gradients that make the whole image glow like a stage light.
For Bloomberg Businessweek, Arnaud Aubry Uses Symmetry to Show Fintech Serving Everything at Once
Arnaud Aubry illustrates a feature for Bloomberg Businessweek on how platforms like Robinhood and eToro now court wealthy users with premium credit cards, concierge services, and F1 access. These apps are trying to be everything at once, and Aubry leans into the absurdity by arranging their wildly mismatched offerings into tidy, mirror-image compositions. The balance is the joke: symmetry makes brand incoherence look orderly, and therefore funnier.
Rose Wong Sweeps Up Financial Anxiety for The New York Times
For a New York Times piece on “financial spring cleaning,” Rose Wong illustrates the idea that when the world feels uncertain, taking stock of your budget is one of the few things you can actually control. Rendering money worries as household mess makes the abstract feel manageable.
Adam Mazur Illustrates a Portrait with a Punchline for The Grub Street Diet
This week, the food journal is a comedy routine in disguise
Every week, someone narrates seven days of meals for The Grub Street Diet, and what comes back is never really about the food. It is a journal surfacing career, family, heritage and anxiety through what someone reaches for at lunch. This week’s subject is comedian and Late Show writer Michael Cruz Kayne, and Adam Mazur’s portrait is in on the bit. Kayne holds a microphone at center, his week of eating swirling around him. The food tells the story. Mazur illustrates the person it reveals.
Maggie Chiang Trusts the Reader to Slow Down for Los Angeles Times
A story about connection as self-care, illustrated with an image that rewards a second look
For an interview with psychiatrist Joanna Cheek, author of It’s Not You, It’s the World, Maggie Chiang painted what first reads as a sunny afternoon scene with two people talking in a park. Moments later, the foliage itself resolves into a woman’s profile. The whole picture reorganizes. The conversation isn’t happening in a park, it’s happening inside someone.
