Symmetry Magazine illustrations

RIP Symmetry Magazine, an awesome resource for accessible introductions to contemporary particle physics. It’s still online at symmetrymagazine.org for a little longer, but will be retired any day now. Sandbox Studio, where I worked, art directed the magazine for over 20 years. I illustrated a handful of articles over my time there. Here are a handful of my favorites.

Two glowing peach spheres collide, bursting into an iridescent splash, with thin yellow rays radiating outward.
from ‘What is a photon?’
Two people work late at library shelves stacked with blue folders, documents and glowing binary code, under a SHHH sign.
from ‘With open data, scientists share their work’
A cheerful yellow flower and a wilting dark bloom share one blue urn, shed petals scattered beneath the drooping stem.
from ‘Can a theory ever die?’
A woman and a blue robot share a control desk of colored buttons, a grey cat asleep beside them, data rows on the wall.
from ‘Rise of the machines’
A dark red clothbound book, its cover reading ‘A Brief Etymology of Particle Physics’ in pale serif capitals.
from ‘A brief etymology of particle physics ’
A bookshelf of 2018 physics titles, threaded with a trailing vine, red flowers, a sleeping ginger cat and two mice.
from ‘Physics books of 2018’