Illustration – Dan Koster

The Connection

The Connection is a '60s Beat-era play about a bunch of musicians and junkies (with a Venn diagram overlap of near 100%) jamming, riffing, and freaking out while waiting for their man. I drew this poster image for a mid-'90s revival of the play in…

Aftermath

Illustration

Aftermath is a group of four oil paintings, made to illustrate a hypothetical environmentally-oriented magazine assignment. I made these so long ago... look, it was so long ago that oil painting was seen as a perfectly reasonable medium for illustration because we didn't have computers.…

Rudolph 2.0

Illustration

Some tech humor for the holidays. I was given free rein by my employer to design anything at all, as long as it was both Christmas-y and hi-tech. This was years before Google Glass. Where are my royalty checks?

The Value Adders

Illustration

Whatever else may come, I can die satisfied that I designed an embroidered bowling shirt and twenty or thirty of my coworkers and I wore them en masse at the lanes. It's UpStart Communications again, source of many of my black/red/white designs, and this was…

Thermo

Identity Design, Illustration

This plucky character with the devil-may-care vogue gesture and saucy hand on hip is named Thermo, "The Heat Generator." No, I don't know either, but I created it as a logo for internal use at UpStart Communications, a hi-tech public relations agency. Star performers…

Data Breach

Illustration

Or is it a data blossom? (Silkscreen, 10 colors)

Untitled Rooms

Illustration

These two oil paintings are the only survivors of a set of five untitled paintings of "rooms." (This is because they are the only two I allowed to survive.) More specifically, they were of rooms undergoing distortions.

Party Hearty

Identity Design, Illustration

My first professional design! For a mom & pop party shop in New Jersey called Party Hearty, around 198*cough*. They wanted a one-color logo that would lend itself to reproduction in different colors as needed.