Tag: Design portfolio

Chicagoans, 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…

I’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…

What 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,…

A 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…

These 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 &…

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…

Sell 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…

Client: Tribune Media Services

This 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…

Visit the actual website at: http://www.tmsreprints.com Client: TMS Reprints

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. This example is smaller than the real newsletter. View the full newsletter. Client: FluentMedia

Postcard to promote the redesigned KRT Direct website. Clean, simple, and fast. Client: Knight Ridder Tribune Fonts: Avenir and ITC Century (the fonts used in the KRT Direct logo I designed)Front: Back:

A logo for a tv book conference features the Sears Tower, Stone Container Building, Tribune Tower, and the Hancock.

This ad picks up the look from the Jumble Crosswords sheet done earlier in the year. Client: Tribune Media Services: News & Features department Fonts: Futura

PC Parents is a Tribune Media Services column. This is an advertisement in a trade journal.

Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk

Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk

Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk

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, 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 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…

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.

Client: Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk

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.…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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: