ABOUT
Martin Gee 朱威華 (they/them) is your illustration uncle and multidisciplinary creative Voltron: senior art director, designer, illustrator, Emmy-winning animator, visual journalist / storyteller, educator / adjunct professor, public speaker and much more*.
Their career path of destruction includes New York Magazine, TIME, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, The San Jose Mercury News, Chicago Tribune and House of Blues, and has taught at School of Visual Arts and University of the Arts. They continue to advocate creativity, empathy, truth, social justice, mental health and love.
Gee's style, outlook and problem-solving are highly versatile, from business illustrations for Bloomberg to Vulture's Baby Yoda coloring book to animated characters for the Los Angeles Times. They are constantly exploring their insatiable curiosity through their obsessive and boundless personal projects. Work = Life = Play.
As a designer 24/7, they have particular styles, tastes and attention to detail with their surroundings, highly sophisticated interlocking brick system, high-end robot toys and model kits, personal artifacts, Animal Crossing island (DA-8607-1113-3836), and especially their work. They strive to bring a level of understanding, thoughtfulness and emotional sensitivity to everything they do.
In addition to their 25% EGOT, Gee has won innumerable awards from acronyms (SOI, SPD, TDC, SND, 3x3, Print) and a fondue set for presentation karaoke / improv. In 2018, they produced and starred in ‘Recurring Public Speaking Nightmare’, an improv team show with random presentations in New York.
Originally from San Jose, California, they are based in New York. They are a cat parent to Lady Gucci and Lady Echo Bass, and the late great Citrus aka Mancat.
*Except for code because my brain doesn’t work that way =)
SELECT ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS
New York Magazine, Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg Markets, IDW, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, AARP, Goodwill, Adweek, Alta Journal, Joysauce, Barron's, Scientific American, The Washington Post, ESPN, TIME, Village Voice, Popular Mechanics, Wall Street Journal, WIRED
SELECT DESIGN CLIENTS
Chicago Sun Times, Adult Swim, Goodwill, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Press Photographers Association, Warner Records and others currently under NDA
SEEN IN
The New York Times Magazine letters page =P
CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS
AAJA, SND, MoMA, Poster House
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SVA (illustration MFA and Summer Residency Program), Pratt, Parsons, Rhode Island School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, University of the Arts, Society of Publication Designers @ Society of Illustrators, Baltimore Academy of Illustration, Society for News Design conferences and quick courses, College Media Association, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Michigan State in Barcelona, SND Scandinavia, Association of Alternative News Media, University of Miami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Villages Daily Sun
VIA INTERNETS: Ohio University, Ball State, University of Mississippi, Harbour Space (Barcelona), Sheridan (Toronto), Western Washington University