Washington Post – The Best Schools

These illustrations for the Washington Post go along with an article about what to look for in a school and how to go about finding the perfect school for your child when moving to the DC area. The article is filled with tips like, how to spy on PTA meetings, where on the internet to look for school ratings, and how to approach principals & other administrators of schools you’re considering in a constructive manner. With all of that and more in the article, the art director was looking for something that showed the multitude of decisions & considerations facing parents when looking for that ‘perfect school.’

Sketches (unfortunately, this project was moving fast and I did not have the correct size at the start… though each sketch would have been easy enough to adapt to the final format):