about

I've always found melding the art of illustration and commerce exciting. I love to direct that passion into crafting an emotive experience that words cannot.

I create commercial art for books, products, designers, ad agencies, musicians, publishers, and movie trailers.

Business + Personal = Belief. For you, that means an energetic attentiveness and collaboration that will express and expand your message. For me, it means I've created an image that distills a moment of clarity.

My images start with the pencil, always, and finish as digital collage, monoprints, and screen prints. My work has been recognized by Communication Arts, American Illustration, and the Society of Illustrators.

Michael lives and works in Oakland, California with his husband, musician and programmer Andrew Cowitt and their dog Olive.

clients

• aids health project
• the bark
• bill graham presents
• camelbak
• camper van beethoven
• david carson
• chronicle books
• cisco
• converse
• deyoung museum
• the exploratorium
• farrar strauss giroux
• frontiers magazine

• hadassah
• hewlett-packard
• info world
• klutz press
• levi strauss
• los angeles times
• macworld
• mccann erickson
• motorola
• the national park service
• the new york times
• the new yorker
• nike

• oakland magazine
• parenting magazine
• pottery barn
• scholastic inc.
• san francisco chronicle
• san francisco int'l film festival
• san francisco opera
• ten-speed press
• tricycle magazine
• tricycle press
• utne reader
• veer
• washington post