It was an honor to create this illustration to spread awareness of Bike Durham and raise funds for them at the same time… check out the finished T-shirt in action on Bike Durham’s Instagram!

A whole-building environmental mural that aims to immerse visitors in the wonder of nature while integrating tightly with the hands-on museum exhibits…

CREDITS:

• Mural design and install by Steven Valenziano 👋
• Huge thank you to Marlene Chen and Alan Maskin of Olson Kundig for the opportunity to contribute, and to Elizabeth Friedrich of BADM and Alex Meyer for coordinating the install!
• Exhibit design by Olson Kundig
• Project management by Alex Meyer of Meyer Technical
• Exhibit Production and Install by Pacific Studios
• Morgan Womble-Dahl for his implementation ideas.
• Final thanks to Mark Sabatino & Gizmo Art Production for commissioning the little mural that inspire this big one!

Approximately 8×12 feet size, this mural depicts a few of the sculptures that Gizmo Art Production has built and installed in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other fun stuff scattered throughout: a playful jab at the CEO’s music habit, Janis Joplin’s house, Miss Doubtfire’s house, 3 bikes, moustaches, a very prominent paintbrush, and grafitti by Barry McGee.

Medium: India Ink

I helped scientist Rohan Maddamsetti create a Muller Plot and supporting diagrams for his paper on E. coli evolution.  Rohan provided the raw data and we worked together to merge it together into the final diagram using Adobe Illustrator.

The paper was awarded the “1st Centennial Award For Population And Evolutionary Genetics.” More info from the Genetics Society of America.

The full scientific article: Adaptation, Clonal Interference, and Frequency-Dependent Interactions in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli

Various life drawings, ideas, and illustrations, mostly personal work