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05.22.2007
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Wired
Shot Spotter

This piece appeared in the April 2007 edition of Wired. It illustrates a system by which police can pin point the location of gunfire almost immediately after it happens.





05.17.2007
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Business 2.0
Net 2.0 Boomtown

This was a fun piece in which 25 web 2.0 companies, and their associated technologies, were depicted as thriving in an early-1900s boom town.




Maxim
NASCAR

For Maxim,
I drew the NASCAR's "Car of Tomorrow," the new platform for future cars. The middle illustration shows various methods by which teams cheat. The lower piece compares the sizes of 3 different NASCAR tracks.








Hemispheres
Taurus Star Map

This is one of an ongoing series of star maps I do every month for the horoscope page in Hemispheres, the in flight magazine of United Airlines
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Men's Health
Instant Expert

I did of few illustrations for article on how to take better pictures.





Wired
Hydrogen Home

This illustrated some of the components that went into a recently-built hydrogen-powered home.




Wired
Infoporn House

Wired calculated that the combined computing power of the all the appliances in an average home is far greater than that of the average laptop. This illustration helped tally up the gigaflops.




Wired
Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Mascara Jet

Apparently Japanese girls can now buy a jet-powered mascara applicator. And I didn't know I could draw cute girls this well. Surprise, surprise.




Maxim
Kegorator

Maxim's how-to piece advises on turning an old fridge into a chill beer machine.




CNET
Learning to Say, "You're Fired"

This was a kind of a funny piece. Click on the image to see the whole thing. Yoink!




Make
Robot House

Want to automate everything in your house? Make shows you how.




Make
ABS Desk Set

Make shows you how to build three desk accessories from ABS.




Bicycling
Fruit and Vegetable chart

How long will those strawberries last? Not long, according to this storage guide for nearly every fruit and vegetable under the sun. Click to see the whole thing.



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This site is the online home for the work of San Francisco-based illustrator and designer, Nik Schulz.

I produce editorial and explanatory illustrations for magazines, ad agencies and design firms.

I hope you enjoy the site.

Nik
6.24.2007

If you missed my presentation on Melbourne graffiti at Pecha Kucha, you can see it now on Juxapoz. The magazine asked me to re-present the photos, replete with witty commentary, as part of their guest blog series.


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