Aaron Dana Illustration

CLIENT: Unpublished

Selected Winner American Illustration 41

CLIENT: NBA ON TNT

2022-23 NBA tip-off illustration celebrating the players, personalities and storylines heading into the new season.

CLIENT: BARRON’S

Personal work

Inspired by the album Smiling with No Teeth

CLIENT: Bleacher Report

Commissioned illustration featuring the talented incoming NCAA basketball class of 22-23

Illustration created for Decades, Vol. 2: Athletes for Change , a collaborative zine sold to raise funds for Color of Change.

Selected for the American Illustration 40 annual.

CLIENT: MOTHER JONES

CLIENT: THE RINGER

For an oral history of Oliver Stone’s polarizing film.

CLIENT: Bumble

An illustrated guide to online dating in quarantine. Made in conjunction with Complex branded content.

CLIENT: MOTHER JONES

Client: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

40+ full color illustrations for the New York Times best selling book Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA, written by analytics expert Kirk Goldsberry.

CLIENT: NBA

Artwork celebrating Vince Carter’s unforgettable 2000 Dunk Contest performance. Part of the NBA’s “Thank You, Vince” campaign, for which 15 international artists were asked to make visual tributes to an incredible career.

CLIENT: TNT

Key art celebrating the 30th anniversary season of the Emmy-award winning Inside the NBA. The art work was adapted into a variety of environmental installations, both for NBA opening night and the surrounding events, and on the Turner campus in Atlanta, GA

Photos courtesy of Turner Sports.

CLIENT: BOSTON CELTICS

Series of 17 portraits commissioned by the team as a holiday gift to their players.

Clients: Washington Post, Topps

A series of special edition All-Star Game baseball cards produced for The Washington Post.

Client: The Player’s Tribune

Illustrations for Miguel Aguilar’s essay “Undocumented”

CLIENT: The Ringer

Illustration of Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar

Client: Anheuser Busch

Animated short film for Natural Light’s “NATURDAYS” release campaign.

Illustrated by Aaron Dana

Produced and Directed by Jeremy Johnstone

Narrated by Pat McAfee

CLIENT: BARRON’S

Client: NBA on TNT

I had the pleasure of working with NBA on TNT on their “My Moment, My City” advertising campaign, celebrating the tip-off of the 2018-2019 season. My Celtics artwork was featured on billboards in and around the city of Boston, and served as the basis for a video feature that aired on TNT’s Emmy-award winning pregame show.

Client: The Ringer

Michigan State vs. Indiana State- 40 years later

Client: COMPLEX

Portrait series of Latinx cultural powerhouses.

CLIENTS: Eight by Eight, DC United

Illustrated Match Day program cover and poster, commemorating DC United's final game at RFK Stadium.

Made in collaboration with Eight by Eight magazine.

Client: Bundesliga

Illustration series for 2018 Der Klassiker match between Bayern and Dortmund

Client: The Ringer

Nikola Jokic at the crossroads

CLIENT: NIKE

FIBA World Cup jersey illustrations made for Nike News

Illustration for Fandom celebrating the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first decade.

Illustration for a killed article on the "Popovich 2020" internet campaign

Clients: BOOM Studios, WWE

Cover art for BOOM Studios’ WWE comic book

A series of digital trading cards advertising Adidas' 2017 Hardwood Classics NCAA uniforms and their corresponding footwear.

Made in collaboration with the friends at Kamp Grizzly.

Client: Complex

Illustration on Las Vegas, the next great American sports city(?)

Client: Cycle

Various social media illustrations

Series of Grammy Awards illustrations for Cycle Media

CLIENT: SPORTSNET CANADA

A series of illustrations chronicling the biggest late-season collapse in Blue Jays franchise history. 

Series of Rasheed Wallace reactions to technical foul calls.

A two-color silkscreen edition (pictured below) was made for the 5 on 5 show in Portland, OR., and can be purchased in the store.

Client: The Player's Tribune

A series of illustrations from a Bill Snyder-penned article looking back on his coaching career.

CLIENT: The Ringer

Illustration on the lukewarm reception of the Ghostbusters reboot.

Illustrated poster featuring every All-Star in Boston Celtics franchise history. This 4-color silkscreen edition was made for the Posterize: New Orleans art show over the 2017 NBA All-Star weekend.

Sales from the show benefitted the Rock On Foundation, a non-profit that provides artistic and athletic enrichment opportunities for young people and their communities.

To purchase one of the remaining prints, click on the STORE tab at the top of the page.

CLIENT: The Ringer

Illustrations for a "completely and totally true" oral history of Space Jam.

Client : ESPN FC

The many faces of the famous Liverpool manager.

CLIENT: Vice Sports

Illustration for an article on the racial injustice inherent to the NCAA athletic experience.

I made 50 black and white spot illustrations for a book about yelling at athletes.

Published by Lyons Press.

CLIENT: ESPN

Series of illustrations for ESPN's "Tennis Confidential" feature

Illustrated banners for Boston's flagship Nike store.

CLIENT: Vice Sports

The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping

Client: ESPN

Animated lead art for an article on how infrequently the NBA standings change late in the season.

Client: The Ringer

Brad Paisley, explained in seven songs.

Sports related spot illustrations for various clients

CLIENT: Vice Sports

A behind-the-scenes look at the Future Stars of Wrestling school in Las Vegas.

CLIENT: Grantland

Illustration for Grantland Quarterly 8, accompanying an article on the art of pitch framing in baseball.