Ellen Weinstein

Children's book collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity. The book is written by Sarah Suzuki, a curator in the department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art and it tells the story of the legendary artist, Yayoi Kusama. Order here

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Coming April 2018 from Chronicle Books with 65 full-page illustrations

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What did Maya Angelou do to keep the words flowing? What is a NASA engineer's lucky charm? How does Thom Yorke prep for a concert? This book bottles the singular recipes for success of leading creatives, politicians, scientists, and athletes who made their own luck. Revealing an array of unique practices from quirky superstitions to preperformance rituals, this visual compendium celebrates in text and charming illustrated portraits the real personalities, creative processes, and curious habits of these influential people. Presented with a handsome silk-screened cloth spine, this treasure trove of inspiration is a smart and special choice for anyone who could use a little good fortune.

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Cover of World View magazine for the National Peace Corps.

Reengaging with the world.

Cover of the Boston Globe Book Review on “The Age of Light” by Whitney Scharer, a novel based on the life of combat photographer, Vogue model and iconoclast Lee Miller.

For the 75th Anniversary Issue, Scientific American looks at whose voices were amplified and whose were ignored through the history of the publication.

Looking to the new year, a place to begin and turn things around. For Wander Magazine

Why read Melville? For Amherst Magazine

For The Washington Post. I finished “War and Peace,” but I wish I hadn’t.

Beauty treatments without surgery for Marin Magazine

Opinion pieces for The Washington Post

For Time Magazine. Stuck With Yourself. Dealing with addictive behavior during the pandemic and isolation.

For the Boston Globe Magazine. Women need to protect their financial futures.

Book cover for the paperback edition of Pamela Paul's My Life with Bob. Published by Picador and cover design by LeeAnn Falciani

MIT School of Engineering Magazine. Reverse engineering the brain.

Cover for The New York Times Sunday Style section on dividing people into specific personality types.

Cover of Columbia Alumni Magazine and interior illustrations for a series of articles on The Great Unraveling. Is the US electoral system coming apart at the seams?

Book review illustrations for The Boston Globe

After Covid-19 What’s Next? For Columbia Magazine

What Makes a Community Garden for Middlebury Magazine

Cover and series of illustrations for Stanford Alumni Magazine, inside the nation’s first decision to close down as the bay area braced for COVID-19.

Gouache and collage for an exhibition.

Cover of ROAR by Cecilia Ahern for Grand Central Publishing

For Santa Clara Magazine, Creative Director, Pentagram. A profile on Sanjav Das and a tale of mistaken identity, machine learning and mortgages.

There are new species being discovered everyday, so many in fact that scientists have not named them all. The New York Times

Full page for Scientific American. The Invulnerable Cell. Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet.

Cover and series of articles exploring modern orthodox Judaism for Harvard Divinity Bulletin.

Poster for a lecture at California College of Arts

Forgetting can be useful especially for people who have suffered trauma. Radcliffe Magazine

I was the Catapult Story featured artist for March 2019. You can read an interview and see the pieces and the stories here.

Recipes for Good Luck feature in the Washington Post Outlook section. You can see the online visual story here.

VOTE! Use Your Voice! For The Nation

The Unbelievers. A look at African-American Atheists. The New York Times Sunday Style section cover.

Cover for Science @MIT The Science of Intelligence

When You Listen to Music, You Are Never Alone. How silent discos bring us together for Nautilus. Article here

Mascot Studios Annual Dog Show 9" x 12" gouache on paper

Created for the annual Dellas Graphics Frog Folio.

Cover for The Washington Post Outlook section. What Happens When Government Stops Doing Its Job?

Opening spread for the Columbia Journalism Review "The Perception Issue" What the press looks like from the outside—and what we misread about ourselves.

Full page Boot Camp for Nuns for Commonweal Magazine

Island Time. A first person account of living on the island of Malta for LMU Magazine. Pentagram Design

Abuse and harassment of women in Hollywood. for the Hollywood Reporter

The Fragile Generation, looks at the increase in pediatric allergies and schools' responsibilities for protecting the kids.

Rise of the Radical Right and the Refugee Crisis for Rider University

The cost of reporting while female. For the Columbia Journalism Review

Ididnotarod. A personal piece that found a home on The Atlantic Magazine's gallery page.

What's Love Got To Do With It? On television, marriage enters the twenty-first century. Full page for the New Republic.

I was asked to create a response to "Experiencing Adversity" I chose to show resilience and how we recover. "People are amazingly resilient. We typically recover quickly and fully from loss and trauma; restoring community helps us cope with disaster; and depression can lead to spiritual awakening." For Columbia Teachers College

Wishing you brightness, happiness and strength

For Santa Clara Magazine, Creative Director, Pentagram. A profile on Sanjav Das and a tale of mistaken identity, machine learning and mortgages.

Cover for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association on medications that can be harmful to women.

Book review for Erica Jong's latest book, "Fear of Dying"

Napoleon had a fear of black cats. From Recipes for Good Luck. More info.

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I was the lead illustrator for the August 2013 issue of Nautilus. The issue titled, The Unlikely, is a series of articles on science, philosophy and medicine that explore the relationship between probability and possibility.

Gay Bullying. The Gay Selma: School districts ignore LGBT bullying at their own peril. Village Voice Media. Cover used on nine covers nationally.

The Deceptions of Luck. Nature makes chance, humans make luck. For Nautilus.

Women and Power in the Academy. Pay Gap. Article here

Various projects for The New York Times

Dream On. Take a class or a trek-and you might just put yourself on the road to fulfilling a fantasy. JWMarriot

Women are too afraid of being labeled “Bridezilla” to ask for what they want at their weddings. Cover of The Washington Post Outlook section.

When we work together we are more powerful than working alone. Harvard Magazine

Book cover for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel takes place in Sicily where people make pilgrimages to see a modern day saint.

Various alt weekly covers

Polypill: One Pill for Everything? The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association

Poster for the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays, the largest and most well-established new play festival in America. The festival is hosted by the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

I use animals frequently in my work. Sometimes they are anthropomorphic stand-ins for humans and sometimes they are themselves. Who doesn't love to draw animals?

American Illustration Live Cover Project brought together 36 artists in a live studio marathon session. I created 10 original covers for American Illustration 32 in one day at the studio. There is a fun video of the making of the project
here.

Collage with 33rpm record sleeve for an exhibition titled, The Cannonball Lady which featured 30 artists that traveled in Rome, Venice and Milan, Italy

Cover of the quarterly print edition of Nautilus.

Cover for Rider alumni magazine. Justice for All? Rider's shared read program explores issues of race, inequality and the justice system with Bryan Stevenson's New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy

Various projects for The Wall Street Journal. Mom Time. Why do women still do most of the household work when both parents work full-time? Insurance changes, Lean in and Your Smartphone Will See You Now.

Looking for new planets.

I was commissioned by Georges DuBoeuf wine to create a campaign based on the tagline "You don't have to understand the French to appreciate their wine." Cramer-Krasselt Agency.

Love in the age of tinder. The New York Times

Arab Spring. Barnard Magazine

Gouache and collage for the Annual Dog Show at Mascot Studio gallery in New York City.

Small Things Considered. My contribution to the 2014 NPR
Wall Calendar.

Gouache and collage for an exhibition.

Wine label for the private reserve of actor, Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Brooklyn Boundless towers exhibition of 50 Towers created by 50artists curated by SooJin and Chris Buzelli.

Gouache and collage for the annual Mascot Studio Dog Show

Gouache and collage on 3" x 3" post-it notes for the annual Post It show and Giant Robot gallery in Los Angeles. Curated by Mark Todd and Esther Watson

Series for The Nashville Symphony, used on posters, program guide covers and advertising.

How your brain twists together emotion and place. Nautilus

For Stanford Alumni Magazine. Series of illustrations on sleep and genes

Various projects

Workshop taking place in Vesuvius, Italy.