TIM'S LETTERS
My name is Tim Peters.
I write and do graphic design.
Get in touch with me at:
iamtimpeters [at] gmail [dot] com
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Infographic novel. ~60,000 words.
Individual chapters appeared at The Rumpus, Guernica, and Inside Higher Ed.
Infographic for the PBS NewsHour online.
Made with Mila Sanina.
Poster, stickers, and podcast logo for Entitled Opinions radio show.
Mural for Broadway Food Hall.
Hand-painted.
Cartoon on the wall of Sipyard
Krink markers.
Delivery/market truck for Blue Moon Farm.
Hand-painted.
Chapbook version of an article for the LARB.
Paid for by an Urbana Arts Grant.
(Featured at French Paper Co.'s Sample Room.)
Flyer for Glen Park (SF) Merchants Association
Collateral design and in-store signage for Canyon Market
Landscape design siteplans and infographics for Farmscape.
Chapbook. Cover and interior.
Beekeeping essay by Maggie Wachter of Second Nature Honey.
Chapbook. Cover and interior.
Pollination research for a USDA grant by Maggie Wachter of Second Nature Honey.
Logo mockups for Second Nature Honey.
Mobile art gallery.
Organized by Christopher Carl.
Displayed at the Urbana Market at the Square and
paid for by an Urbana Arts Grant.
Included contributions by Langston Allston and Sophie McMahan.
(Some
press about the truck.)
Flyer + website for co-operative housing.
Full-page ads for Dalkey Archive Press.
Appeared in Harper's and BOMB.
Flyer for Parkland College's Spring Plant Sale.
Flyer for Parkland College's Winter Plant Sale.
Job resumes.
Wine label for a South African vintner.
Covers for Dalkey Archive Press.
Mural. Krink markers and sumi ink.
Covers for The McNeese Review.
Holiday cards made on a letterpress.
Magnetic wi-fi fridge placards.
Screenprint.
Tri-fold brochure for McNeese State University.
Poster for 2013 AWP Conference.
Interactive thesaurus mobile app.
Produced and programmed by Shad Sharma.
Available
here
for iPhone and iPad.
Album cover for a band in Asheville, NC.
WRITING
HARPER'S
Time Out of Joint
A review of Richard McGuire's Here.
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
Emojis, Comics, and the Novel of the Future
An essay about a novel by the Chinese artist Xu Bing.
Good Old Wallace
An essay about a David Foster Wallace story.
McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY
Notes from the Caddieshack
Stories about being a caddie.
(Some
press these stories received.)
THE POINT
Chris Ware's ANL #20
An essay about a Chris Ware comic.
New Work
An essay about the philosopher Frithjof Bergmann.
Philip's Complaint
An essay about the movie Listen Up Philip.
Wordless!
An essay about Art Spiegelman's Wordless!.
Repetition, or The Real World
An essay about being a news intern.
THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Book from the Ground
A review of Xu Bing's graphic novel.
PBS NEWSHOUR
Federal Spending, Visualized
A rundown of federal $ data viz.
THE BAFFLER
Working Woes at the Strand, Illustrated
A review of Greg Farrell's On the Books.
GUERNICA
A Sentimental Correspondence
Infographic memoir.
THE RUMPUS
The Intraquiz
Moral inquisition.
My Voluptuous Delusions
Infographic memoir.
Conspiracy Gothic
Infographic essay about movies like
The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Synecdoche, New York
INSIDE HIGHER ED
Mutual Solipsism
Infographic meditation.
The Demystification Process
Infographic short story.
The Threshold of Autonomy
Infographic short story.
THE McNEESE REVIEW
The Irritable Recluse
Diagram story.
You're Gonna Reap Just What You Sow
Diagram story.
SLANT
Jurassic Park as a Means of Discussing Fractals, Chaos Theory, and Scary Movies
An essay about Jurassic Park.
Roger Ebert in Illinois
A tribute to the movie critic.
Far from Home
A review of Guy Delisle's Jerusalem.
In Library of America We Trust
A review of Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973.
A Useful Reminder
A review of Jack Hart's Storycraft.
If I Had a Sight and Sound Film Ballot
My Top 10 Films of [Recent] Time
SELF-/UNPUBLISHED
"Masculine Feminine"
16 pp mini-comic.
Available at Quimby's.
"The Parking Meter Lease or, Crisis, Chicago-Style"
Infographic meditation.
OTHER STUFF
Painting. Acrylic paint.
Drawing. Charcoal pencils.
Collage. Construction paper and colored pencil.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing/Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Drawing/Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Drawing. Colored pencil.
Painting. Felt-tip marker, pencil, and acrylic paint.
Drawing/Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing/Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker and colored pencil.
Drawing. Felt-tip pen.
Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Painting. Watercolors and acrylic paint.
Drawing. Ballpoint pen.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and ballpoint pen.
Greeting Cards. Felt-tip markers, ballpoint pens, and acrylic paint.
Collage. Construction paper, paint marker, colored pencil, and cardboard.
Drawing. Felt-tip marker.
Painting. Acrylic paint and felt-tip marker.
Painting. Acrylic paint and felt-tip marker.
Painting. 1 Shot.
Painting. Acrylic paint.
Painting. Acrylic paint.
Drawing. Posca markers.
Sign. Foamcore.
Drawing. Colored pencils and paint markers.
Painting. Felt-tip marker and acrylic paint.
Rasterized alphabets for Photoshop typesetting. Felp-tip pen.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and pens, colored pencil.
Bookmark. Laminated inkjet print.
Bookmark. Laminated inkjet print.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Entry for 2020 Graceful Envelope contest.
Moleskine notebook cover. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Notebook collage. Gum wrappers.
Moleskine notebook cover. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Notebook collage. Pen and newspaper clipping.
Notebook doodle.
Notebook collage. Pen and shopping bag clipping.
Notebook collage. Newspaper clipping, mailer ad, and prayer card.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook excerpt. Pen.
Notebook collage. Pen and academic article.
Notebook doodle. Pen.
Notebook doodle/drawing practice. Panel from early Peanuts.
Notebook doodle/drawing practice. Panel from early Peanuts.
Notebook doodle/drawing practice.
Roommate reading before dinner. Wintertime.
Notebook doodle/drawing practice. Muybridge motion study.
Notebook collage. Pen and Goya.
Notebook doodle. Abridged William Blake.
Notebook doodle. Newspaper rearrangement.
Notebook doodle. Newspaper cutout (JFK funeral).
Notebook doodle. Newspaper cutout.
Notebook doodle. Pen.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Collage. Felt-tip pen and highlighter markers.
Collage. Ephemera picked up while traveling.
Handmade infographic.
Collage. Felt-tip markers, construction paper, and comics.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers and pens.
Construction paper, highlighters, and felt-tip pen.
Student magazine cover. Bubble gum and aluminum foil.
Construction paper, highlighters, and felt-tip pen.
Digital infographic.
Drawing. Felt-tip pen.
Drawing. Felt-tip markers.
Collage. Latin American periodicals rescued from a university library collection.
Drawing. Colored pencil and watercolor.
Booklet. Construction paper, pen, and collage.
Collage. Newspaper clipping and felt-tip marker.
Notebook doodle. Felt-tip marker.
Notebook doodle. Felt-tip marker.
Collage. 1-Shot and photograph.
Collage. Felt-tip pen and photograph.
Collage. Pic from Le Monde Diplomatique.
Collage. Pic from Le Monde Diplomatique.
Collage. Old magazines from Argentina.
Collage. Old magazines from Argentina.
Collage. Old comics from Argentina.
Collage. Old comics from Argentina.
Collage. Old comics from Argentina.
Collage. Old comics from Argentina.
Collage. Old comics from Argentina.
"A Friend in Nanjing"
Winner of the U.S. State Department's
"Your Culture + My Culture = ?" Video Contest, 2009