Neil works for Mission Local, a news website in San Francisco. Neil draws cartoons promoting their fundraising efforts as well as illustrations and editorial cartoons to supplement their high-quality reporting.
Neil designed the marquee logo for the American Institute of Architects' Architecture + The City festival in 2024. This design features many prominent San Francisco buildings, including a mix of old and new styles of architecture, reflecting Neil's deep connection to the buildings of San Francisco.
To a certain community of scientists and laboratory workers, Neil was known for a time as the in-house cartoonist for Rainin Pipettes, a global purveyor of liquid handling equipment. Neil was able to make many cartoons for Rainin's lab equipment products, drawing on his biology studies in high school and college.
For three years, from 2020 to 2023, Neil produced a weekly comic strip for Ocean Ale House, a bar and restaurant in the Ingleiside neighborhood of San Francisco. The comic strip featured the owners and employees of the bar presented fantastical scenarios promoting the restaurant's offerings.
Neil created a series of graphics for a neighborhood solar panel initiative called Ingleside Community Power. The illustrations Neil produced featured a positive vision of a future powered by solar and other renewable energy sources, and emphasized connection and community as vitally important to making that future possible.
Working as a San Francisco-based artist, Neil has created product labels, enamel pins, posters, website illustrations, business logos and more. Here is a selection of some of the art that he created for neighborhood businesses and initiatives.
Neil works for Mission Local, a news website in San Francisco. Neil draws cartoons promoting their fundraising efforts as well as illustrations and editorial cartoons to supplement their high-quality reporting.
Neil designed the marquee logo for the American Institute of Architects' Architecture + The City festival in 2024. This design features many prominent San Francisco buildings, including a mix of old and new styles of architecture, reflecting Neil's deep connection to the buildings of San Francisco.
To a certain community of scientists and laboratory workers, Neil was known for a time as the in-house cartoonist for Rainin Pipettes, a global purveyor of liquid handling equipment. Neil was able to make many cartoons for Rainin's lab equipment products, drawing on his biology studies in high school and college.
For three years, from 2020 to 2023, Neil produced a weekly comic strip for Ocean Ale House, a bar and restaurant in the Ingleiside neighborhood of San Francisco. The comic strip featured the owners and employees of the bar presented fantastical scenarios promoting the restaurant's offerings.
Neil created a series of graphics for a neighborhood solar panel initiative called Ingleside Community Power. The illustrations Neil produced featured a positive vision of a future powered by solar and other renewable energy sources, and emphasized connection and community as vitally important to making that future possible.
Working as a San Francisco-based artist, Neil has created product labels, enamel pins, posters, website illustrations, business logos and more. Here is a selection of some of the art that he created for neighborhood businesses and initiatives.
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