Tag: Design portfolio

A 2001 interview shows quite a bit of wisdom from the 14-year-old Shaun White. Points like respect for elders, being willing to admit what he doesn't know, and the importance of community.

How 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…

Yesterday for work, I made a fun ping pong bracket with Dick Tracy holding a ping pong paddle. One of my friends suggested that all the participants sign up as Dick Tracy rogues. What a great idea! To determine our…

When 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…

Two monumental cultural events are about to happen in the same week: Star Wars is releasing episode VII: The Force Awakens The Art Institute is about to exhibit their largest donation of artwork ever. 44 monumental modern artworks were donated…

The fine art of napkins. Art that you can wipe your mouth with. The Art Institute currently has 11 napkins in their permanent collection. The height of the napkin collecting craze occured from 1983 to 1996. Nine of the eleven…

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…

If you could ask the president anything, what would you ask? I have a few questions: Is there a working telegraph machine in the White House? Does the White House still have Rutherford B. Hayes’ croquet set? Why does the…

Rick 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…

A 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

Website 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]

The 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…

Knight Ridder Tribune and Tribune Media Services have a table at the annual Florida Press show where they gave away a new Calloway golf bag. This postcard promotes the giveaway. Design and Illustration by me.

KRT 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…

The 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…

This 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” 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, 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…

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…

At 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…

A 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 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…

The 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 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…

I’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…

The 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 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…

Advertisements to increase hits to the TV and Movie Listing website, Zap2it.com. Wonderful concepts and copy by the incredible David Rothkopf. I am available to do illustrations for hire. Email me with your inquirires at: [email protected]

Advertisements to increase hits to the TV and Movie Listing website, Zap2it.com. Wonderful concepts and copy by the incredible David Rothkopf. I am available to do illustrations for hire. Email me with your inquiries at: [email protected] This appears in the…

Advertisements to increase hits to the TV and Movie Listing website, Zap2it.com. Wonderful concepts and copy by the incredible David Rothkopf. I am available to do illustrations for hire. Email me with your inquiries at: [email protected] This appears in the…

Advertisements to increase hits to the TV and Movie Listing website, Zap2it.com. Wonderful concepts and copy by the incredible David Rothkopf. I am available to do illustrations for hire. Email me with your inquiries at: [email protected] This appears in the…