Mike Reddy is an illustrator and art director based in Austin, TX.

His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Men’s Health, and online for The Atlantic, Esquire, and CultureTrip. His work regularly appears at STATnews.com — and was paired with their Pulitzer-nominated reporting in 2021 & 2024 and Harvard’s Goldsmith Award-nominated reporting in 2024.

Since moving from NYC to Austin in 2015, his artwork has been installed at the Austin–Bergstrom Airport, the top floor of the Archer Hotel, and the halls of cloud-based content management giant Box on Congress Ave. His work has appeared in Texas Highways, Southwest Review, and on the covers of The Austin Chronicle and Austin Monthly.

Book projects include the cover for the forthcoming edition of Ultrazone by Mark Terrill and Francis Poole, spots for The New Monuments and the End of Man published by Princeton University Press and lettering for Warhol Women published by Lévy Gorvy gallery. Awards include selection for multiple editions of American Illustration. 

Mike is a partner at the creative agency Carter/Reddy. Projects include art direction for the Oxford American (Arkansas) — a finalist for ASME’s 2020 and 2024 general excellence award — as well as design for bars The Commodore, The Commodore II, and The Drift (Brooklyn).

He supports Texas Appleseed (progressive policy reform in Texas) and has made work for the I HeArt Justice poster show and Good Apple Dinner. Mike also supports LifeWorks (to help end youth homelessness in Austin). He was first introduced to LW while participating in the AIGA Changemakers series, and has continued to support their communications efforts including design for their Annual Reports.

Illustration Clients:
Anorak
Adirondack Life
Atlanta Magazine
AARP Magazine
The Atlantic
Austin Chronicle
Austin Monthly
The Believer
Box
Chemical & Engineering News
Convene
Columbia Journalism Review
Delish.com
Esquire
Experience Magazine (Northeastern University)
Four Two Nine
Gather Journal
Huffington Post
Lucky Peach
Narratively
Nautilus
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Nickel City
Noble Rot
Notre Dame Magazine
Portland Mercury
Put A Egg on It
Racquet
Sesame Workshop
Seventeen
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Southwest Review
STAT
Tape Op
TCJ.com
TheTrace.org
University of Texas at Austin
Verse Chorus Press