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RESEARCH: Thomas Jefferson University

When Greg Betza received this commission from Thomas Jefferson University to contribute to their magazine he was excited as he’s always been drawn to butterfly imagery and the idea of metamorphosis, but that was not at all what this was about. ...

Bowdoin Magazine

Greg Betza had a great collaboration with the team at Bowdoin Magazine on 2 illustrations for their Fall issue. He was asked to illustrate the story of Bowdoin alum Ed Burton who searches for American soldiers who never came home. Whether POW or lost ...

UtahMed Magazine

Greg Betza had another chance to work with the great team at EmDash, this time for UtahMed magazine. Greg decided to work 100% digitally on these and the client was very happy with the results. ...

Animations 2021

This series of animations are a continuation of a project from 2019 which was postponed due to the pandemic. Greg Betza recently had a reel put together of some of the highlights. The animations are designed to work as culture-shaping, coaching video ...

Columbia Magazine-Jazz

Jazz illustration
A few months ago Greg Betza was contacted by Len Small over at Columbia Magazine. He always wanted to work with Len and this was a really fun collaboration. Len had the idea of integrating actual photos into the illustrations, and Greg really liked t ...

BOSTON GLOBE BOOK REVIEW

I’ve worked for the Globe before but this was my first large book review illustration. This piece was really fun to do and as usual I learned about something new, the Federal Writer’s Project, a depression era creation of the WPA. Basically, all ...

GEORGE FLOYD TRIAL-WASHINGTON POST

Last week I was asked to create an image to run alongside the introduction of the jury in the George Floyd murder trial. After quite a bit of discussion here is the illustration that was agreed upon to protect the anonymity of the people involved. Th ...

A P O T H I C

Wine has always been a category for which I love creating art. Last June I was asked to create a new merlot label. It was a very focused project and one that I was very grateful for. It was one of the few projects that I worked on during the lockdown ...

CANSON ARTIST SERIES PADS

I am always happy to receive a call from the wonderful people at Canson North America, and it was a dream come true when they asked me to create illustrations for their new Artist Series pad covers. I had not seen them published until my friend and S ...

Serena Ventures

Greg Betza had the chance to work with the wonderful team at EmDash on a little portrait piece they needed for a Harvard Business School Alumni Review article on the Serena Williams venture capital firm Serena Ventures and it’s investment mana ...

IMMERSIVE SPACES WITH HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

Just completed another interesting project with the Mental Canvas dimensional drawing app: an interactive illustration of Young Huh’s interior design, for House Beautiful. (Above is a view of the kitchen.) I had such fun translating Young Huh’s ...

ALL TOGETHER. DIFFERENT.

A few months back I was commissioned to create illustrations for the Walgreens Boots Alliance‘s 2018-19 Diversity & Inclusion Report. The title All Together. Different. Considering the current state of the world, it was a very timely commission ...

ANIMATION, WASHINGTON POST

I’ve been looking for more opportunities to create animated content and happily I received an email from the Washington Post asking for just such a thing 🙂 People are having difficulty, naturally, furnishing their homes during the pandemic. So w ...

SIXTEEN STORIES

A few years ago a close friend and colleague approached me with the opportunity to illustrate a book of short stories that he had written. Mario, the author and friend, is one of the most ambitious and impressive people I have ever had the pleasure o ...

Greg Betza for The Guardian

I was given my first commission for The Guardian last week. The article titled Could Microsoft’s climate crisis ‘moonshot’ plan really work? was certainly a challenge to illustrate, but when the solution finally comes together it really is that ...
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