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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.
Carmen Casado Illustrates a Garden for The Guardian
Carmen Casado is back in the Guardian’s How to Start column for April. Her illustration about how to start a vegetable garden hits news stands right as most of the Northern Hemisphere is asking the same question. The whole composition sits on a coral ground under a blue sky, with an off-register dashed pumpkin as the center piece.
Simone Noronha Lights Up Zara Larsson for The New Yorker
For The New Yorker’s profile of Zara Larsson on her Midnight Sun tour, Simone Noronha pulls in close, a tropical flower tucked behind Larsson’s ear, the airbrush blooming behind her like a gel light catching the back of the stage. The whole frame glows from somewhere just off-camera. You can almost hear her voice captured in this illustrated moment.
Romain Lasser Demotes the House to a Mailbox for The Walrus
For a Walrus essay by David Moscrop on how buying a house made him complicit in Canada’s housing crisis, Romain Lasser draws the house as a mailbox stuffed with financial paperwork, pushing the owner out onto the curb. His dog sits beside him, the only thing here that isn’t an asset. The house is a retirement plan, and nothing lives in it but the mail.
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.
