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An illustration of a person planting red roses in a large garden bed. The flowers form the shape of a middle finger pointing towards a house where two people stand.

Illustrator Ellen Weinstein keeps excellent editorial work coming

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Date
10 May 2012

New York-based Ellen Weinstein is the go-to illustrator for some of the biggest names in the media and it’s not difficult to see why. Her latest work shows off her spectacular ability to create enjoyable and evocative visual shorthand for issues as complex as atheism in the African-American community and controversial Jewish film-making. But that all makes her sound misleadingly serious, when in fact she has a lighter touch too employed to splendid effect both in animal-based images and the above piece for an article about the menopause. Fabulous stuff.

A collage of a person in a red outfit against a bright yellow background. They hold a strip of film that has been looped into the shape of a six-pointed star.
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Ellen Weinstein: Illustration for a feature on a professor who made a film about Israel, Cut to Controversy

A collage of small penguins arranged to form the shape of one giant penguin against a bright orange background. A line of penguins at the top holds a large fish that hangs vertically.
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Ellen Weinstein: How Cooperation Trumps Self-interest for The Harvard Law Review

A collage of four people gathered around a blue table against a bright yellow background. Two people hold hands across the table, while others look on with solemn expressions.
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Ellen Weinstein: The Unbelievers, a look at African-American Atheists for The New York Times

A collage of a hybrid creature with a leopard’s body, a lemur’s face and green dragonfly wings. It wears a red and white name tag that reads “HELLO my name is”.
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Ellen Weinstein: How Many Species on Earth? for The New York Timnes

An illustration of a rooster wearing black-rimmed glasses and blue pyjamas patterned with white moons and stars. They hold a steaming yellow cup of coffee as a bright yellow sun rises behind them.
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Ellen Weinstein: Aging Eyes to Blame for Range of Health Problems for The New York Times

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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