Hand-Drawn Illustrations for Scott Galloway

Based on the visual language I created for a weekly column (No Mercy/No Malice, authored by L2's Founder/NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway), I illustrated his two books, NYT Bestseller The Four (based on "the hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google") and his most recent publication, The Algebra of Happiness (based on a composite of narrative portions referenced in his column). The illustration style echoes Scott's objectively critical observations and the reflective nostalgia that informs his wisdom – the poignancy of his writing is strengthened by his uniquely decisive voice. This is why I hand draw the illustrations with a confident stroke in sharpie, which maintains a whimsical and permanent quality in the rugged iterative style. The illustrations often end up more refined than is true to the style–due to complexity or true likeness–and digital illustration is employed.

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The below are the published versions: a blend of Penguin's design and my illustration/handwriting.

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Below are my 4 iterative book cover designs. The top right includes the original title of The Four (Winners & Losers.)

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Well into the process of creating weekly No Mercy/No Malice illustrations and graphs, we decided it would facilitate the process for Friday morning deadlines by creating a typeface (below) based on my 'hand,' versus hand writing and scanning copy with the other illustrations each week.

I created variations of each (already capital) letter to mimic the subtle variations in handwriting by creating an "all caps" version for the font, "KB Handschrift." This was used on the cover of The Algebra of Happiness.

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No Mercy/No Malice illustration examples, many of which were included in The Algebra of Happiness (below). View them all on Scott's site: No Mercy/No Malice or on Medium.