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As part of my illustration degree with the Open College of the Arts, I had to choose an editorial piece to illustrate and I selected one from The New Yorker by D T Max, entitled Can Turning Office Towers into Apartments Save Downtowns?
It focuses on FiDi, Manhattan’s financial district in New York, and how property developer Nathan Berman is buying up office buildings – nationwide they are “only 50% full” – and transforming them into residential apartments. So far he’s converted eight in the area.
Partnering with architect John Cetra, the writer pays particular attention to a building on 55 Broad and how its 400,000-sq-ft of office space is being gutted, reformed into one-bed or studio apartments, targeting the young, generating a potential annual rental income of $30 million.
When discussing his methods, he described “the effort to extract as much residential space as possible out of such buildings to solving a Rubik’s Cube”.
Further in the text, 55 Broad is described as a “three-tired wedding cake” as well as “a dull stack of boxes” and taking a closer look at the building myself via Google Maps and through various online websites, I started to see how the idea of the Rubik’s Cube, wedding cake and this lucrative business “marriage” between Berman and Cetra could form an interesting illustration to accompany the text.
Read more about my research behind this illustration here.
This map is part of a series which highlights some of the most splendid places to visit in France. This piece focuses on the Aude and presents the twelve locations I would personally recommend to a family looking to explore the Aude in summer.
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I created this image based on the news story about the devastating fires in California in January 2025. I found that almost 40% of Californian prisoners are Hispanic white nearly 30% are Black, 20% White and the rest "other".
The BBC reported that 900 incarcerated firefighters were deployed to serve and the LA Times stated that inmate crews account for as much as 30% of the state's wildfire force. The prisoners are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 a day when the state's minimum wage is $16.50 an hour. Non-prisoner firefighters are paid between $147,000 and $352,000 a year.
This piece was created to accompany an editorial piece about balance which is explained by a humorous illustration of a flamingo, a balance expert, on a beach ball in the sea, managing to keep afloat with multivitamin drink mix AG1 on one side and a hedonistic cocktail in the other. I used a limited colour palette to create more impact and to make it simple and easily understandable.
This piece was designed to accompany an article that looked at whether pets are becoming smarter.
