Tag Archives: Illustration
Court Report cover illustration
Being asked to do an illustration for a magazine is fun and exciting work. Being asked to illustrate the cover is even better, especially when it’s for a well crafted article written in the style of a Hardy Boy’s mystery. It was titled “The Mississippi Five and the Case of the Missing Case”. After being…
GeoEngineering
Editorial illustration for Momentum Magazine which is published by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
Don't Tread On Me part II
Like many high school kids, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after graduation. One of my best friends was headed for the Marines, and I thought, the Marines are cool, and I like their logo. (I once chose a school to attend based solely on it’s logo & mascot. That didn’t…
Refresh Winchester
I was absolutely thrilled when I found out that Refresh was coming to Winchester. I had previously been driving in to D.C. So you can only imagine how excited I was when asked to design the logo for it. For those not familiar with the area, Winchester is located at the northern most tip of…
2010 Chicago Logo
When I approached the design for the 2010 Leaders Conference host city logo, I knew almost immediately that I wanted to work Chicago’s unique skyline into it. After several failed, “Frankenstein-esque” attempts, I decided to form the letters from the negative space created between the buildings. This worked really well for the “H, I and…
Bad day
No, not the old 2005 Daniel Powter song (although it’s been playing in the back of my head since I started this post). I’m sure I was subconsciously inspired by Pixar’s short “Partly Couldy” (the one shown before “UP”) when I had this thought about happy clouds floating along until one storms by in a…
Unyielding moments create ingenious ideas
While perusing the Christmas card isle I noticed they were stocked full of pretty cards featuring Mary and Joseph en-route to Bethlehem. The star is shining bright. There’s peace in the air. Then it hit me, if donkeys are notoriously stubborn, wouldn’t this be more like it? To all a very Merry Christmas, and…