Projects

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Illustration Corporation

Officially Launched!

We are now taking illustration work requests of all kinds. Everything from editorial to character design, we can do it. Please take a look at our talented illustrators and give us a ring!

Illustration Corporation

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The Journey Show

at Golden Age

The Journey Show explored Bauhaus design theories and applied them to scarves, books, pins, posters, prints and t-shirts. A lesson in marketing art.

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Line and Composition

Studies based on The Journey Poster

After making The Journey Poster I started sketching on and photocopying the rejected comps. This is sample of that exploration.

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The Journey Poster

Extending the system

To advertise the Journey book (see next case study) we created massive double-sided newsprint broadsheets. We used the principles of the book—3 primary colors and shapes–to create a corresponding system in black and white using line variations to replicate value and form.

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The Journey

a book

Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see.

Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers celebrated both the beauty of form as well as the functional potential hidden within these 3 primary shapes and colors.

The Incredible Journey That is Consciousness invites each reader to interpret a landscape of symmetries, simplicities and geometric structures.

Buy the book

Reviewed by Book By It’s Cover

Blogged at Colour Lovers, Swiss Miss, FPO

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Luck

Good Luck

with that

Is a friend or family member facing a new life challenge? Don’t be afraid to say “good luck with that.” Hand-letterpressed with love.

$2.50

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Ideas on ideas

Works in progress from the good old sketch book.

There are hundreds of pages of ideas, game-changing and hilariously bad, collecting dust in my book shelves. Maybe even thousands. Sometimes it’s great to look back at all the crazy things that get logged.

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Cut in Haste

How quickly can I make some custom characters?

I recently rediscovered this set of characters inspired by a friend’s series of illustrations. It’s amazing what gets lost in the archives. So here are some samples of Cut in Haste. Not sure why I went to the extent of creating a lengthy set of ligatures but it was wicked fun.

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Jam

New Restaurant, New Identity

Old world meet now. Elegant hand lettering gets cropped by modernism in this logo for Jam, a new Chicago restaurant focused on meticulous food construction in a sleek dining experience. I’m sold.

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Chicago Printers Guild

United by my logo.

The Guild unites printers of all types to discuss secrets of the trade, networking and collaboration. I am honored to represent the best printers in town with my logo. It was democratically voted on by my peers, for my peers.

The mark is a nod to the Chicago Fire Department.

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