email: jori@joribolton.com
May 3, 2021
Corporate Knights
Had the pleasure of working with Jack Dylan of Corporate Knights for the first time last month on this portrait of Tamara Vrooman.
RNJ
What Nursing Means to Me for RNJ (formerly Registered Nurse Journal). In each issue RNJ publishes a personal essay by a registered nurse describing what nursing means to them. This column, for their Winter 2021 issue, told the story of the author coming to fully understand the importantance of every healthcare worker in meeting patients' needs.
Harvard Medicine
Paul DiMattia commissioned this illustration for Harvard Medicine's special report on racism in medicine. This image was for the article "Field Correction" by Stephanie Dutchen. You can read the text here: https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/racism-medicine/field-correction
Harvard Business Review
I illustrated Harvard Businesss Review's Case Study feature for their November-December 2020 issue. It's an examination of a fictional business problem (reflective of real ones) accompanied by a series of comic-style illustrations. Senior Designer Emily Caulfield was a big help in livening up my panels for this project. I don't have a lot of experience doing sequential work like this, and her art direction was a big help.
Bonobos
Portraits of sartorial fun guys Lawrence Schlossman and James Harris for a Bonobos Black Friday feature.
Duke Magazine
An illustration for Duke Magazine and AD Lacey Chylack. This was a long and wide one, with the headline appearing in the middle, for an essay about a man’s experience with surgery, mortality, and appreciation for life written by author, artist, and teacher Ashon Crawley.
Proper Cloth
Matt Coleman of Proper Cloth emailed me last year to commission a website illustration for their Guide to the Perfect White Shirt. Loved working with this simple, monochromatic approach. You can see it live on their site here: propercloth.com/perfect-white-shirt
Renaissance Magazine
Exercise spots for Renaissance Magazine, which is published by the RTO (Retired Teachers of Ontario), demonstrating chair-based pilates.
Education Spots
Fitness grads!
Mr Porter
A few Mr Porter pieces from before that I overlooked when updating my website at the time. These first three were for a feature on short shorts.
The History of the Tan
And this motion illustration for their coverage of the US Open
February 06, 2021
Bonobos
Here are a few of the header and spot illustrations done for Bonobos' Fashion Blog last year with AD John Jannuzzi. This first one was for an article on dressing up (or down) for Valentine's Day.
For an article on podcasts:
Working from home:
And various portraits and spots:
November 06, 2020
The Money Deck
Photo and design © Ben Barrett-Forrest
I had some of the most fun I've had illustrating while working with Ben Barrett-Forrest and Nicholas Fleming on The Money Deck. A deck of playing cards chock-full of financial facts, tips, quotes, graphs, and illustrations. You can see more of the deck itself, plus Nick and Ben's great video on the Kickstarter page.
Clockwise from top left: Overconfidence Bias, Bull and Bear Markets, Mental Accounting, and Diversification.
There are a little over thirty of my illustrations throughout, which came out of many more sketches and many many more conceptual notes. My wife, illustrator Diana Bolton, was a life-saver and was very generous with lending her cleverness and patience to the process.
I learned a few things myself while working on it and seeing the cards posted on the Instagram page. For example, I had no idea how credit scores were calculated, and for the life of me could not remember which was which, between bear markets and bull markets.
Clockwise from top left: What Is Money?, Recessions, The Economy, and Paying Off Debt.
And one more cool gif below because I love Ben's gifs for this project:
Photo and design © Ben Barrett-Forrest
Links for more images and info:
August 24, 2020
Education Week
I had the pleasure of working with art director Gina Tomko on Education Week's 2020 Technology Counts special report on "Coronavirus, Virtual Learning, & Beyond". Initially, the issue was about the benefits and risks of technology in the classroom in general, but then the pandemic hit, and the issue was reconfigured to better address current issues. Cover illustration above, interior illustrations below.
Here are some sketches from from before the report was reconfigured. There's a lot of fun stuff to do using phones and tablets in visual metaphors.
And then a few of the sketches for the updated version of the report.
I did a number of illustrations for Bonobos this past year. The header above and spots below were for an article about Thanksgiving conversation topics.
Mr Porter
An illustration for Mr Porter's smart aging guide.
Illustrations for Mr Porter's guide to buying a suit online.
Outfit-swapped portraits of Jeremy Kirkland for a joint podcast between Blamo! and Mr Porter.
Renaissance Magazine
Some instructional fitness illustrations for Renaissance Magazine and AD Taylor Kristan.
March 29, 2019
Reader's Digest
John Montgomery of Reader's Digest got in touch to work on some illustrations for their feature, "Outrageous Family Stories". Here's the full page up above, and a quarter page down below. It was a great project, with some funny content to work with (like the chicken blasting out of the garbage bag below).
Mr. Porter
Dream assignment! Hattie Gable of Mr. Porter asked for a number of illustrations of career-related outfits as retro monocolour action-figure accesory sets. This hit so many buttons for me. Getting to reference 1960's art and design? Check. Toys, action-figures specifically? Check. Fashion? Check. Monocolour? Yes, please.
A few more below. The versions that ended up on the site have a slightly different background, which you can see over at the Mr. Porter Journal.
January 8, 2019
Scientific American
Always a great pleasure illustrating for Scientific American! This was for a story about discovering new uses for old drugs. AD: Michael Mrak.