Daniel Baxter

Biography

Daniel Baxter is a graduate of Parsons School of Design. His work has been featured in hundreds of publications and books. His projects have included a branding campaign for The New York Times, as well as illustrations for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Daniel Baxter illustrated self-portrait.

See Work

ESSAYS / Summer 2025

Cicada Years

By Donovan Hohn ,  Illustration by Daniel Baxter

Periodical cicadas do not rely on camouflage to survive. They overwhelm their predators with numbers, billions of them crawling out of dime-size holes in the ground, an evolutionary strategy known among biologists as “predator satiation.”

Map of Plymouth, Massachusetts, covered in drawings of cicadas with big, red eyes by Daniel Baxter.