Design & Design portfolio (intersection of tags)
374 Design posts • 85 Design portfolio posts • 73 in common
- Invite for Tribune Content Agency holiday partyHow to fit 100 columnists, 15 comic strips, and 50 employees into one holiday invite. This year I was asked to design the invite to our company holiday party this year. Normally, this would be finding some nice holiday stock…
- Dick Tracy, the ping pong playerWhen your company syndicates Dick Tracy, you often get to have some fun at work. Four months ago we moved out of the Tribune Tower, and into our new office space in One Prudential Plaza. In the recreational part of…
- What if all 23 cities in America named Paris had their own Eiffel Tower?There are at least 23 cities named Paris in America. I’d love to see the Eiffel Towers of each American Paris. If your town is named Paris, you HAVE to feature an Eiffel Tower. It’s a rule. All the Paris…
- Rick Steves sell sheetRick Steves—THE name in travel guides. He’s now writing a newspaper column and Tribune Media Services is syndicating him to newspapers across the country. I designed the sell sheet to help the salespeople to convince newspaper editors to buy his…
- Amazing League logoA logo for my fantasy baseball league, the Amazing League on mlb.com’s Beat the Streak Client: Me Fonts: LionelClassic and LampLighter Script from fontdiner.com
- Tribune Media Services licensing websiteWebsite for Tribune Media Services properties including Dick Tracy, Annie, Jumble, Boggle Brainbusters, and Brewster Rockit. I did the site architecture and graphic design. Homepage: %%2715_licensing_home_full.jpg” width=”735″ height=”583] Sample Subpage: %%2715_licensing_sub_full.jpg” width=”756″ height=”671]
- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life websiteThe website for the book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” an Amazon Top 10 book in 2005. This site was designed using PHP and MySQL, so the author could easily make updates to the site without knowing html. Readers can…
- KRT Campus brochure/mailerKRT Campus provides top-notch news, sports and entertainment content to college newspapers. When this project was first handed to us the copywriter, Maureen Quinlan, and I brainstormed different formats. Last year we did a traditional 3-fold brochure. We played around…
- I got designs into the 2005 Graphic Design USA design annualThe 2005 Graphic Design USA annual has accepted two of my pieces for their 2005 American Graphic Design Awards! Here’s the two works: Brewster Rockit Sales Kit KRT Campus brochure/mailer Pretty good, considering these are the only two pieces that…
- Brewster Rockit sales kitThis appears in the 2005 Graphic USA Design Annual. Tim Rickard sent Tribune Media Services a comic strip proposal for Brewster Rockit. TMS decided to take Brewster under an 8-week development deal to help improve the strip before syndicating it.…
- At Home with Marni Jameson“At Home with Marni Jameson” was a column syndicated by Tribune Media Services. This was an identity developed for the column. Fun strong font with a little bit of retro flair in the word “with” and little monopoly-esque style legs.…
- Tribune Media Services Entertainment websiteTribune Media Services, an innovative and entrepreneurial business unit of Tribune company, is the No. 1 supplier of television and movie information, reaching millions of consumers through thousands of customers. I did the information architecture/sitemap on this site along with…
- I got two items into the Graphic Design:usa 2004 annual!Here’s what was selected into the 2004 Graphic Design:usa 2004 annual The Zap2it Consumer Ad campaign: Zap2it Ad 1, Zap2it Ad 2, and Zap2it Ad 3 and the Lola folder Background on the awards: Every year the Editors of Graphic…
- Lola folderAt the time of this folder, Lola the comic strip had been around for five years. It’s in over 100 newspapers and we wanted to bring it up to the next level. So a new sales folder was to be…
- Flying Onion Attack! logoA logo for my fantasy football league team, the Flying Onion Attack! Client: Me Fonts: Holiday Ranch from fontdiner.com Clip Art: Art Explosion 750,000 images
- News in Motion sales kitNews in Motion sells computer-generated animation clips to TV stations and websites. Here is their folder and a sampling from the 12 different sheets included in the kit. The previous marketing collateral for them involved lots of full-bleed photoshop work…
- Thomson Stock Reports sell sheetThe look is picked up from the Insider Trading folder I did previously. Except this time, the twist is using the orange as the dominate color to differentiate the pieces a bit. Client: Tribune Media Services: News & Features department…
- KRT Campus brochureKRT Campus provides top-notch news, sports and entertainment content to college newspapers. The copywriter and I came up with a bunch of funny ideas for this brochure to target the college audience, but the client wanted something that speaks to…
- spudart.org redesignI’m redesigning the spudart.org website, and I’d love to get feedback from my readers about possible designs. Here is Option B (the home page). About the redesign The redesign will incorporate alot of backend database features * Every item on…
- Down the Line interactive press kitThe interactive press kit for the acoustic rock and soul band, Down the Line, will help them hit it big. Instead of waiting to send out their press kit via snail mail, they can email the press kit in a…
- Mark Bazer websiteMark Bazer writes a funny humor column. He liked the job that I did for his sell sheet, so he asked me to design his website. Client: Mark Bazer (After I worked on the site, the current live site has…
- zap2it illustrations in chicago paperChicagoans, grab a Red Eye newspaper next week to see some Zap2it.com advertisements I designed and illustrated. They are full-page color ads with lots of purple.Here’s the schedule of when they will appear. Monday, July 21 (Get Inside TV.)Tuesday, July…
- zap2it illustrationsI’m doing illustrations for Tribune Media Services Zap2it.com advertisements that will appear in the Chicago Red Eye, LA Weekly, Village Voice, OC Weekly (Orange County) newspapers. Although, they haven’t been published yet, i’m posting about the drawings of here, because…
- Guinness World Records sheetWhat can I say when I got the chance to design the sheet for the new syndicated Guinness World Records newspaper column? I had visions of the world’s heaviest twins sitting on their motorcycles, the dude with the longest fingernails,…
- TMS Voices and Viewpoints promo sheetA sheet to promote the weekly html email newsletter sent out to newspapers editors. The Voices and Viewpoints newsletter contains allows editors to sample the top commentators every week. A challenge to include all this body copy, long headline, and…
- Lola banner adsThese pieces appear in the 2003 Graphic USA Design Annual. Collaboration with Lola creators, Steve Dickenson and Todd Clark to create banner ads to appear in Editor & Publisher’s email newsletter for newspaper editors. Client: Tribune Media Services: News &…
- artiwu site Because of my passion for helping other artists, I started an organization that connects Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) art alumni and students. I created a web site for members to stay in contact, post their art and share resources. Over…
- Mark Bazer sell sheetSell sheet for TMS salespeople to sell the Mark Bazer column to newspapers. Mark Bazer writes a fresh and funny humor column. This sheet talks about how newspapers have a generations-old tradition of thoughtful humorists. I designed this sheet to…
- Jumble Crosswords logoClient: Tribune Media Services
- Joe Martin folderThis piece appears in the 2003 Graphic USA Design Annual. Joe Martin creates three comic strips: Mister Boffo, Cats with Hands, and Willy n’ Ethel. All of the past sales folders we have done for comic strip creators focuses on…
- TMS Reprints websiteVisit the actual website at: http://www.tmsreprints.com Client: TMS Reprints
