Rainbrella

Just learned that this illustration will appear in the Fall 2013 issue of Tricycle Magazine. Always liked this one. Glad it is finally going public.

Tricycle Gallery

Tricycle Magazine has posted some of my Buddhist-related images on their Gallery. See it here.

Tricycle Turns 20

Wow! A few days ago MTV turned 30 -- now Tricycle: The Buddhist Review turns 20. How fortunate I am to have been involved with the creation and development of these two important cultural phenomenon. I am deeply honored to have been a part of Tricycle from its very beginning. I am grateful to the publication's Founder, Helen Tworkov for persuading me to become Tricycle's first Art Director. I was extremely resistant at first, but like Allen Ginsberg said, "I fought the Dharma and the Dharma won." Over the years I have been Tricycle's cover designer, creative consultant and Contributing Editor. Congratulations to James Shaheen, Editor & Publisher; Rachel Hiles, Managing Editor; Fabio Cutro, Art Director; Philip Ryan, Web Editor, and the rest of the Tricycle staff. Rejoice.

Online Retreat

Illustration originally created for Tricycle Magazine.

Trike for Trike

Illustration for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (2004). First created as a holiday card. Later used as key graphic element in a press kit.

iPod Dakini

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is looking to start putting audio up on the iTunes store and has asked to use my dancing dakini as part of the branding. Stay tuned. . .

T-Time

Graphics for some of these T-shirts have appeared in earlier posts. Click on related labels to see details.
Top left: T-shirt originally for Tricycle Magazine's "Change Your Mind Day" (2000)
Top center: Limited edition T-shirt for the band Luna's final shows at the Bowery Ballroom, NYC (February 26, 27 & 28, 2005)
Top right: "Bell Man" T-shirt for So Percussion (back) (2007)
Bottom left: Limited edition Watertower T-shirt for Brooklyn Industries (2007)
Bottom center: Bleacher Bloggers T-shirt (bleacherbloggers.com) (2007)
Bottom right: LP Cover Lover T-shirt (lpcoverlover.com) (2008)

Men of Peace

I recently attended the annual Tricycle magazine benefit. The evening’s events were dedicated to Gandhi’s teachings and included comments about The Satyagraha Forum (see previous post); Philip Glass and Tony Boutte performing an excerpt from Satyagraha, Glass’s opera about Gandhi in South Africa, a speech by the Executive Director of the ACLU; and the Indian diva Falu and her rock band performing, among other things. Gandhi’s favorite song (I didn’t know he had one). Got me thinking about my long relationship with Tricycle. This is the the first of over 40 covers I designed for the publication; it featured a striking photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama taken by Herb Ritts. Looking at this cover in turn connected me strongly with thoughts and feelings about the current situation in Tibet and China.

Change Your Mind

This is the logo I created for Change Your Mind Day, an annual day of meditation sponsored by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. T-shirts are available here.