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illustration of Client: Emerge Magazine - music, musical note, singing, jazz, Billy Holiday, suffering, tear, tears, misery, eye, teary eye, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal - polar, bear, pole, endangered, exploration, oil refinery, industry, industrial, pipe, oil pipe, pipeline, environment, environmental, disaster, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - golf, golfing, playing, game, red, flag, golf course, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - public speaking, lecture, lecture hall, speech, presentation, tedious, tedium, audience, falling asleep, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Chief Executive Magazine - conversation, contact, gaze, looking, virtual, meeting, eye glasses, face-time, business, corporate, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - oak, tree, acorn, acorns, fruit, survival, Darwin, Darwinism, survival of the fittest, life, force, vital, vitality, vitalism, park, forest, nature, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Liberty Magazine - forest, landscape, walker, walking man, hiker, choice, alternative, left, right, decision, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: US News & World Report - eye, eyes, wandering eye, woman, spying, spy, gossip, gossiping, gossiper, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Harvard Magazine - elementary, middle, school, bus, education, parents, students, crisis, charter, schools, children, kids, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - pondering, thinking. man, thinker, dark thoughts, thoughts, black, birds, columns, reevaluating, values, priorities, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Crisis in education  - school, The White House, bank, danger, collapse, people, conceptual, concept artist, concept art, character development, picture book, annual report, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Foreign Service Journal.  The world as a boiling pot. - political, unrest, polarization, revolution, protest, immigration, globalization, globe, politicians, diplomacy, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, hands, illustration
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal - gas, fuel, industry, Middle East, petrol, gasoline, cheap oil, expensive oil, dollar, dollar sign, oil barrel, leaking oil, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Students pursuing vocational education are learners, not only trainees; liberal and vocational education are part of the same story  - school, teaching, music, musical, wrench, tools, tool, hand, fist, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, iannual report, people, llustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - depression, psychosis, polar disorder, paranoia, schizophrenia, entrapment, disorder, black, chair, patient, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Family Practice Management Magazine
- swimming, pool, swimmer, business, corporate, corporation, employment, getting hired, accepting position, legal, law, rules, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Zamosc Quarterly - A Literary Journal - library, books, book, literature, librarian, book shelves, study, ladder, literary, conceptual, concept artist, concept art, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - road sign, man, stuck, difficulty, decision, paralysis, paralyzed, indecision, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Achiever Magazine. Unlocking the secrets of cyber security. - hacking, hacker, high tech, spying, voyeur, voyeurism, nosy, keyhole, smart phone, I-phone, hi-tech crime, high-tech criminal, privacy, conceptual, character development, picture book, concept artist, concept art, annual report, people, computers, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Foreign Service Journal - America, the death penalty, politics, political, blood, hands, washing off blood, uncle sam, violence, guns, mass murders, faucet, water, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - shadow, pencil, silhouette, home, building, drawing, planning, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Society For Human Resources Management Magazine. No sexual harassment accepted. - silenced, female, woman, hand, suppression, lips, voice, speaking, me too movement, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Duke University Magazine.  Discourse on affirmative action. - college, university, education, access to education, privilege, brick wall, lifting barrier, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Connecticut Magazine - self-examination, puzzle, puzzle pieces, disassemble, disassembling, figure, woman, medical, health, condition, conceptual, concept artist, concept art, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: St. Martin's Press - weaving, hand, ship, cruise, good bye, travel, separation, longing, sea, vessel, solitary, solitude, conceptual, annual report, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: AARP Bulletin - finances, financial, money, making money grow, watering, watering can, plant, leaves, woman, book, reading, learning, retiring, savings, investments, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Think Advisor Magazine - savings, bag of money, money bag, dollars, dollar sign, umbrella, security, safety, cushion, retirement, relax, investment, retiring, comfort, chilling, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker.  Reading poetry.  - book, poem, woman, tear, tearing up, emotion, emotions, relief, literature, literary, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - financial, finances, money, funds, bank, crisis, column, columns, a drop, dry, drought, dryness, lending, borrowing, the wall street, investing, investments, savings, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: California Real Estate Magazine - building, constructing, construction, house, planning, vision, future, site, land, development, suburban, developing, architect, builder, clouds, cloud, chimney, man, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Polish Daily - Nowy Dziennik - spring, season, irreverence, irreverent, light, mood, lighthearted, lightheartedness, fun, balloon, balloons, hats, fedora, hat, men, suits, necktie, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Villanova University Magazine - design, designer, artist, illustrator, creative, creativity, pencil, vision, eye, profile, face, man, seeing, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Auras Design - hand, face, sharp, teeth, bite, biting, ignorance, evading, responsibility, turning blind eye, compliance, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Education Next - mathematician, faculty, professor, teacher, researcher, scientist, science, mathematics, eye glasses, bald, baldness, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - affection, relationship, friendship, friends, marriage, couple, engagement, hands, flower, rose, helping hand, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - risk, slippery, danger, investing, investments, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, foot, shoe, banana, banana peel, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: LPL Financial - corporate, corporation, businessman, walking, tree, brunches, landscape, conceptual, annual report, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - tweet, Twitter, social, media, song, singing birds, bird, man, ear, hand, ear plug, plugging ears, hearing, deaf, impaired hearing, deafness, chirp, chirping, musical notes, music, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - science, scientist, priest, preacher, spirituality, religion, beaker, The Bible, knowledge, faith, spirit, empiricism, empiricist, empirical, intuitive, intuition, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: RAND Review.  Reducing mass incarceration through prison education. - school, desk, ball and chain, student, prisoner, vocation, freedom, correctional facility, book, classroom, corporation, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Polish Daily - Nowy Dziennik - old, new, young, new year, old man, youngster, jumping, scarf, beard, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Harvard Magazine - hole, dollar sign, money, owing money, deficit, finances, financial, recession, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Education Next.  Overwhelming amount of electronic data is paralyzing. - overwhelmed, numbers, electronic, information, overload, clouds, the cloud, man, blinded, landscape, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Foreign Service Journal - Iraq, Uncle Sam, America, desert, spider hole, the Middle East, government, politics, politic, oil, drilling, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: USA Today - hitting, target, bow, arrow, archery, business, businessman, corporate, corporation, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The New York Times - political, correctness, silence, voice, announcement, stifled, stifle, suffocate, suffocating, megaphone, brick wall, oppressed, man, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Connecticut Magazine - heavy traffic, parking lot, back up, traffic jam, traffic, asphalt, highway, expressway, drop, bottle, neck, car, cars, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP  - acquisition, industry, factory, business, company, corporation, law, lawyer, law firm, business deal, buying, acquiring, stealing, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Society For Human Resources Management Magazine.  The gig economy. - freelancer, freelancers, hiring, employees, job, gigster, worker, workers, corporate, corporation, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: RAND Review.  American leadership is still needed  - globe, flags, America, the world, international, continents, Europe, Asia, Africa, hot air balloon, corporation, people, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The American Lawyer Magazine - office evaluations, lawyers, scales, scales of justice, justice, jurisprudence, jurisprudent, court, law, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: American Recorder Magazine - playing music, relaxing, hammock, musical notes, staff, nature, dragon fly, musician, instrument, flute, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - financial, security, insecurity, falling down, cliff, money, dollars, debt, insolvency, savings, cushion, poverty, bankruptcy, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Huffington Post - America, racism, racial relations, black, man, justice, law, incarceration, racial profiling, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster
illustration of Client: Experience Life Magazine - generations, old, young, friends, baseball cap, bold, cane, rollerskating, roller skater, park, landscape, fun, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - excursion, vacation, vacations, mother, son, child, family, swimming, water, river, lake, pontoon, pontoons, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal. The issue of the identity theft - target, fingerprint, recognition, finger, print, hand, protecting, privacy, cyber-security, security, electronic, data, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: RAND Review. The new administration. - politics, The White House, building, American, American flag, moving in, moving out, u-hail truck, movers, globe, dolly, boxes, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Foreign Service Journal - dodging, bullet, businessman, suitcase, dodging danger, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Washington Post - curtain, column, building, performance, play, playwright, theatre, theater, show, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliette, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Business Week - cornucopia, fruits, vegetables, table of plenty, horn of plenty, Europe, bananas, carrots, bread, tomatoes, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, llustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Philanthropy - cliff, team, team work, leap, future, help, helping, helping hand, levitating, levitation, women, man, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal - investments, eggs, basket, cracked egg, dollars, dollar sign, band-aid, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education. The ideological split within the Supreme Court  - scales of justice, scales, justice, row, rowing, opposite, direction, men, law, lawyers, justice, justices, conservative, liberal, polarization, left, right, America, American flag, sailing, sailer, sailers, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal Europe - politics, political, uncle sam, federal, government, America, American, left wing, right wing, swing, back and forth, seesaw, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: St. Martin's Press - forest, nature, man, paradise, garden, Eden, solitude, solitary, single, picking mushrooms, escape, hiding, evading, refuge, sanctuary, trees, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Utne Reader - partisan, partisanship, polarization, republican, democratic, parties, America, American, politics, political, cooperation, flag, trapeze, trapeze artists, circus, sports, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - creating, writing, prose, poetry, scroll, inkwell, pen, bird, flying, handwriting, author, writer, poet, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Society For Human Resources Management Magazine - business, corporation, rat, race, salesman, salesmen, globalism, clash of cultures, globe, hemispheres, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - teaching, music, musician, guitar, book, faculty, college, university, music department, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal Europe - book, tongue, literature, prose, writing, writer, novel, story, attitude, making fun, language, translation, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - scroll, silhouette, handwriting, writing, author, literary, literature, pencil, artist, creativity, creative, novel, essay, story, biography, conceptual, annual report, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Viking Penguin - urban, noir, mystery, secrecy, secret, meeting, affair, woman, window, eye, apartment, building, conceptual, annual report, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - professor, teacher, college, university, school, teaching, old school, long beard, scissors, eye glasses, book, bold, man, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, figurative,  illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal - dialog, business, corporate, corporations, giving, voice, negotiators, negotiations, speaking, speech, speech bubble, exchange, businessmen, businessman, diplomats, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Foreign Service Journal - diplomat, diplomats, diplomacy, negotiations, politics, nuclear, arms, atom, bomb, table, conceptual, annual report, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Utne Reader - chain, link, musical note, man, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Business Week - mutual funds, investment, investing, investments, stocks, the Wall Street, finances, financial, money, dollars, dollar bill, savings, wheel barrel, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: The Wall Street Journal - money, bag, cliff, investor, businessman, materialist, materialism, slavery, freedom, altruism, idealist, ideal, dollar sign, abandoning, wealth, savings, riches, rich, poor, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Atlantic Monthly - film noir, noirish, falling down, crime, mystery, danger, private eye, detective, city, feet, soles, legs, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration, poster, surreal
illustration of Client: Community Hospital Foundation relationship, relationships, compassion, love, harmony, nature, leaf, leaves, hands, caring gesture, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: Psychotherapy Networker - man, woman, couple, harmony, understanding, cooperation, chemistry, seeing eye to eye, eye glasses, eyes, puzzle pieces, good fit, friendship, friends, love, correlation, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration
illustration of Client: The Chronicle of Higher Education - boycott, bow and arrow, bowman, archery, target, man, faculty, college professor, self-inflicted, harm, conceptual, concept art, concept artist, character development, picture book, annual report, people, illustration

Profile

Adam Niklewicz is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been recognized by numerous illustration award annuals including The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, The Society of Publication Designers, The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Communication Arts, Idea Magazine (Tokyo, Japan), and Print Magazine. Adam Niklewicz's illustrations can be seen regularly in the country's leading magazines and newspapers. Partial Client List Newsweek, Time, U.S.News & World Report, New York City Opera, Burda Publications, Barron's, Business Week, Consumer Reports, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Foreign Service Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Business Review, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Connecticut Magazine, Penthouse, Playboy, USA Today

Style/Techniques

Acrylic, Conceptual, Figurative, Texture

Subject/Specialties

Humor, Animals, Annual Report, Book Covers, Computers, Corporate, Editorial, Education, Family, Landscape, Leisure, Medical, Music, Nature, People, Political, Portrait, Posters, Romance, Web Illustration, Feminine, Spiritual, Environmental, Financial, Urban