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  • Baseball races September 28, 2001
    Yahoo! Sports: MLB – 2001 Pennant Watch
  • Mr. T, croquet and duct tape September 28, 2001
    Amazing, I found a site that has Mr. T, croquet, and Mr. Potato Head all mentioned on one page!!! And here’s one with: Mr. T, croquet, and duct tape
  • Long Live Long Tables September 28, 2001
    I was taking my normal lunch today by myself. Which for a long time, I have greatly enjoyed sitting down and reading a book or magazine. But today I was thinking about how lunch used to be so different in…
  • Creepy Croquet 2001 logo September 27, 2001
    Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk
  • Fallout 2001 logo September 4, 2001
    Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk
  • Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk website August 27, 2001
    Extreme croquet club in the Chicagoland area that is like 19th century meets WWE. Croquet has a rich history of being an extreme sport in the late 1800’s. This site plays on rich decorative elements and has a lot funny…
  • FluentMedia website August 17, 2001
    FluentMedia, the content solution from Tribune Company, delivers strategic information from the world’s premier news organizations directly to your intranet, extranet and public websites. Client: FluentMedia
  • Insider Trading folder August 14, 2001
    Insider Trading is one of Tribune Media Service’s columns. It provides information about how CEO’s stock portfolios. I developed a “James Bondish” look for this folder. The glass-looking cover implies how this column allows you to look inside this confidential…
  • United Way Sweet Taste of Success logo August 8, 2001
    Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2000, the theme is Sweet Taste of Success. View the other pieces in the campaign.
  • Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk logo June 27, 2001
    Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk
  • Dear Pharmacist sell sheet June 27, 2001
    The Dear Pharmacist column gives a weekly dose of pharmaceutical, herbal and nutritional advice. The design of this sheet has a pharmaceutical quality, yet it also brings in the soothing, calm, down-to-earth feeling that Suzy Cohen brings to her column.…
  • Licensing brochure June 8, 2001
    Brochure of all TMS comic and game properties. The Inside spread is categorized into three categories, yet retains an overall unity. Taking many different elements and making them work together through photoshop collages. Fonts: Comix, Dom Casual, ITC Century Front:…
  • Scrabblegrams ad May 8, 2001
    A new puzzle syndicated in newspapers picking up from popular board game, Scrabble. I picked up the look from the Deluxe Scrabble box. However, I didn’t have the source files from that, so I recreated the aged look using an…
  • TMS Licensing ad April 23, 2001
    The challenge: to include lots of different comic strip images into one ad. In previous years, designers had put each comic into its own box, isolating them. I wanted to create unity with our comics, and it also establishes a…
  • TMS editorial columnists & cartoonist email newsletter April 4, 2001
    A weekly html email newsletter sent out to newspapers editors that allows editors to sample the top commentators every week. There was a lot of different content and information to fit into this newsletter, so a strong separation of content…
  • Dear Pharmacist logo March 26, 2001
    The Dear Pharmacist column gives a weekly dose of pharmaceutical, herbal and nutritional advice. Client: Tribune Media Services: News & Features department Fonts: Adobe Jenson (Adobe Jenson has some great classic swooshes, as seen in the “RPh” that give this…
  • Jumble Crosswords sheet January 26, 2001
    Sell sheet for the Jumble Crosswords puzzle. This sheet focuses on how David Hoyt, creator of Jumble Crosswords, infuses his personality into the puzzle. Illustrations are by me. Client: Tribune Media Services: News & Features department Font: Futura Front: Back:
  • TMS Campus logo January 4, 2001
    A division of Tribune Media Services, TMS Campus. TMS Campus distributes content to college and high school newspapers. College Press and Campus PR are services of TMS Campus.
  • United Way: That 70’s Campaign Logo January 1, 2001
    Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2001, the theme is That Seventies Campaign. The company was assigned into twelve teams, each with a 70’s theme team name. To view the illustrations,…
  • United Way: That 70’s Campaign January 1, 2001
    Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2001, the theme is That Seventies Campaign.
  • GE phone accessories January 1, 2001
    Illustration for GE cell phone accessories. Appears in direct mail.
  • Rubbermaid Tough Stuff January 1, 2001
    Freelance illustration for Rubbermaid. They wanted a big fat heavy football player sitting on top of a rubbermaid container.
  • Mr. T Christmas card 2000 December 25, 2000
    While in Chicago during Christmas, Mr. T lost his shoe. Help him find his shoe in the many photos of Mr. T in Chicago at spudart.org/christmas! I bought a handmade Mr. T doll off eBay in 2000 as a joke.…
  • Zap2it tower ads October 20, 2000
    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 logo September 21, 2000
    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.
  • United Way Sweet Taste of Success campaign August 8, 2000
    Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2000, the theme is Sweet Taste of Success. Deskdrop: Poster: Tallyboard:
  • BoxOffice Direct logo July 28, 2000
    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…
  • United Way Sweet Taste of Success January 1, 2000
    Every year Tribune Media Services has a campaign to raise money for United Way. In 2000, the theme is Sweet Taste of Success. Close-up: Deskdrop: Poster: Tallyboard:
  • James Bond illustration January 1, 2000
    An illustration I did for Kelly Kreten, high school biology teacher
  • Who’s Spying on You logo January 1, 2000
    Argonne National Laboratories’ festival held every year. One of their departments was providing awareness of internet chatroom security for children and adults.
  • It’s a Mr. T Christmas logo December 25, 1999
    The logo for my Christmas 2000 card. See this logo in use on my website.

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