Author: Matt Maldre

Banner ads that appeared on looksmart.com and several other sites. Half of them interactive forms for entering a zip code. The tricky thing about designing a form inside a banner ad is that the form will change its size according…

Rootonym is a new puzzle that Tribune Media Services carries. This isn’t so much a logo, as it was a header for the sell sheet.

Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2000, the theme is Sweet Taste of Success. Poster:

BoxOffice Direct is a new company formed by Tribune Media Services. BoxOffice Direct will compete with the major companies that provide the listings of movies and how much money they garnered. (i.e. those listings that appear in the newspaper that…

Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2000, the theme is Sweet Taste of Success. Deskdrop: Tallyboard:

An illustration I did for Kelly Kreten, high school biology teacher

Argonne National Laboratories’ festival held every year. One of their departments was providing awareness of internet chatroom security for children and adults.

The logo for my Christmas 2000 card. See this logo in use on my website.

The third version of my website. Client: Matt Maldre

In the screw-making industry, grease is used to carve out the threads on a screw. It’s labor intensive to remove the grease. Enter scumbugs. ScumBugs is 50-gallon buckets of water with microscopic ameobas that eat the grease off screws. A…

Artiwu connects Illinois Wesleyan University art students and alumni. The website contains bios of students and alumni, records of all the email discussions from the listeserv, the largest link database of Chicago art, pictures from years past. It was concieved…

PBCI (The Public Broadcasting Cooperative of Illinois) was formed to make it easy for advertisers or underwriters to work with multiple public radio and/or television stations in Illinois. Until now, to reach a statewide audience via more than 20 public…

Kensington released a new line of office products to hold CDs, diskettes and other media. This line of products is so sleek and well-designed they are walking down a runway much to the pleasure of the CDs, floppy diskettes and…

This logo was done for ACCO Brands’ One to One program where ACCO reaches out to its small office dealers to have an open communication about the ACCO line of office products.

The agency that I worked for, Sales Solutions, put together a planner jam-packed with local and national events and marketing √¨starter ideas√Æ to put our clients in a promotional state of mind. A series of tips included the “Chicago Hot…

Twice a year General Electric participates in the Tru Value hardware show. Each year they hand out tshirts that are themed to the location of the show. This year they wanted to combine Texas and one of their products, the…

Illustration for General Electric’s Icicle String Trunk Wrap Outdoor Set. This appeared on buttons, brochure, and a six foot tall sign.

Illustration for General Electric’s Net-Style Outdoor Set. This appeared on buttons, brochure, and a six foot tall sign.

Illustration for General Electric’s Icicle String Outdoor Set. This appeared on buttons, brochure, and a six foot tall sign.

These illustrations are for the Point of Sale piece to explain about General Electric’s Halogens

Every year General Electric participates in the Tru Value hardware show. Each year they hand out tshirts that are themed to the location of the show. This year they wanted to combine Georgia and one of their products, the Compact…

Collaborative net.art with Dima Strakovsky. An investigation into the aesthetics of the process of the human-computer interface.This is a website asdf My shockwave files are kinda buried in the site, so you can just skip to the neat shockwave files…

The spudart logo since 1998 (or thereabouts). It’s potato. But it also looks like an airplane. And it also looks like a face. It’s very much like how a potato behaves with all its inherent possiblities. Here’s a few of…

Twice a year General Electric participates in the Tru Value hardware show. Each year they hand out tshirts that are themed to the location of the show. This year the show is in Texas. Concept and illustration by me. Front…

Every year General Electric participates in the Tru Value hardware show where General Electic hands out tshirts that are themed to the location of the show. This year they wanted to combine Las Vegas and one of their products, the…

This poster was distributed to mostly a college audience. It provided awareness of art events that were occuring in Chicago during the fall of 1998.

Done for ACCO’s One to One program, this piece promotes Wilson Jones’ InView Binder.

Illinois has the most nucleaur power plants out of any state in America with thirteen. This series has one mug dedicated for each power plant in Illinois 5″ tall Stoneware, artificial grassSome of the pieces from this series are available…

Urban life protrayed in this oil pastel with plastic and metal frame. 22″ x 17″ oil pastel, masonite, plastic, turnbuckles, wireSale for this artwork is negotiable

A web of strings connecting 8 cans evokes communication on several levels. One being the ol’ can and strings. You can actually hear another person speaking. A group of people can hear everyone else. This is very interesting when considering…

Two concepts merge together in one artwork: 1) Twister: nut and screw (the nut twists around) 2) Twister: landscape with dramatic weather conditions implies a tornado is nearby The medium supports these two concepts: 1) The frame is made from…