by James Yang | Oct 7, 2014 | blog
Laura Baer at New Jersey Monthly called requesting illustrations for a series of stories about the future of education. Since the story was about reforms in place and ready to be launched, a playful space metaphor seemed the perfect idea. Since I went to elementary...
by James Yang | Jul 22, 2014 | blog
Art Director Dan Smith for the Wall St Journal is the first person to assign me a project by tweet. After returning from an exhilarating week in Portland at a biennial illustration conference known as ICON8, I tweeted about feeling pressure to bring it after seeing...
by James Yang | Jun 24, 2014 | blog, editorial
American Teacher magazine called requesting a fun series of illustrations for a feature about math anxiety. Coming from a family of scientists and mathematicians, our house was surrounded with educational toys for math. My favorite was a scale which had numbers of...
by James Yang | Apr 15, 2014 | blog, editorial, projects
It’s been a very fortunate year for series. Quite a few assignments this year have been for multiple illustrations. My favorite part of doing a series is getting a feel for the project and finding a “voice” which connects the illustrations but still...
by James Yang | Jan 28, 2014 | blog, editorial
The Chronicle of Higher Education and I go way back and it is rare to have a client for the life of a career. They were my first client and we have worked together ever since. It has been satisfying to watch the Chronicle grow in stature and see their articles...
