The American Gallery of Juror Art doubled its collection this week with David Namisato's sketches from a jury-duty waiting room.
David Namisato describes himself simply: "I am an illustrator. I like donuts and pie."
David is an illustrator who lives in Toronto. His online portfolio shows his sophisticated comic-book drawing style and suggests the years he spent "in a small squid-fishing, and apple-farming town" in Japan. There are more drawings like that in his Daily Doodles blog, but the drawings I love there are the ones like these: simple impromptu ink sketches of people and places.
David combined these three sketches, of potential jurors waiting to be called, into a single image for the American Gallery of Juror Art. You can find more of his jury-duty drawings if you search "jury" in his Flickr photos. He never got picked for a jury, so he had plenty of time to draw.
All rights in these drawings are reserved to David Namisato. Many thanks to him for his willingness to show them here.
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Unrelated notes:
1. Preview of next week: jurors and beauty. Yesterday, British researchers announced they had found that volunteer "jurors" presented with identical facts were more likely to acquit attractive defendants than ugly ones. The story spread fast on the news feeds, suggesting that somebody was surprised. We shouldn't be, as I'll discuss next week.
2. Recap of last week. Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog has been spending Fridays reviewing the past week's litigation-related blog posts. He's done a lot of work for us in these, and I'm not just saying that because I'm in it this week.
3. More on neurolaw. For those interested in Jeffrey Rosen's neurolaw article, discussed here recently, or in the way jurors process information generally, Prof. Adam Kolber has a Neuroethics & Law Blog devoted to the subject. There is something for trial lawyers in almost every post here.
