In its "Job of the Week" section, Conde Nast's new Portfolio magazine features Chris Alderson, a 24-year-old video game character artist at Kirkland-based Monolith Productions.

Recently, Alderson has been working on a metal-plated villain for a new project. To design this "giant robotic samurai," he trolled Google and Flickr for a day, searching for junkyard images of car parts, metal plates, and walls.