A Mad Men Xmas
January 15th, 2008My art indirectly made it into the Chicago Tribune!
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/01/mad-men-comes-b.html
Mad Men, in my humble opinion, was the best show of 2007 and when I got a chance to design a Christmas card for cast member and former NY improviser Rich Sommer, I jumped at it.
click the pic to see it giant sized
I didn’t take any money for it because it was fun and I wanted to do it. I was also working at an ad agency at the time (September) and had a lot of downtime. It gave me cabin fever, totally, to sit at a desk and wait for work to come and I realized the day went a lot faster if I just took a lot of freelance work to stay occupied… and I took a lot of questionable design work that I would have steered clear of in normal life.
The trade off for Rich was he had to endure weekly Q&A emails about behind the scenes Mad Men gossip and insider track backstage plot secrets (he didn’t know any). And when iTunes totally got behind in updating their episodes, he got AMC on the horn and straightened that shit out (or, his boss did, really). Aaaaaaand… he sent me a DVD screener for Xmas and a copy of a shooting script (“The Wheel” aka the season finale) for me to put in my hope chest. And I did this with it:
(I hope this satisfies loyal reader Monique’s need for inanimate objects with sexy legs)