Katsir Publishing - Ty
Brown wrote a wonderfully humorous book about the people and situations
that cause frustration in the workplace called "Let's Just Take This
Outside." She looked to me to add editorial type illustrations based on
each chapter and also a cover illustration. |
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Butler County Solid Waste Commission -
I was hired to help Butler County promote their recycling program. I
created several cartoons and a logo for their computer recycling program
"Waste Bytes."
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This client
wanted a star surfing graphic for a telecommunications manual for a
product called "Wavestar". The were going to add titles and other copy
to it later. |
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UFO Social
Club BBQ Team - A friend of
mine is seriously into BBQ, so much so that he has routinely won most of the major competitions in the
Northeast. The team is sponsored by Harpoon beer and is called the UFO
Social Club BBQ Team. They wanted a graphic for their banner and t-shirts.
The original design is on the left and the final design is on the
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Dave Arnold
- Dave runs an HR firm
called Oak Hill Partners, an executive search firm with clients like
Nike, Barnes & Noble, Aetna, Black & Decker etc. He wrote a book on HR
and wanted some single panel cartoons to help add some interest and
humor. I ended up drawing about 10 single panel cartoons for his book. |
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myteam.com - Myteam
was
a Web site for kids involved in organized sports below the high school level. They came to
me and asked me to produce a series of sport themed cartoons for their site.
I ended up doing about 100 cartoons before the site folded. Here are a
couple of my favorites. |
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Gemini Valve -
For this illustration, the client came to me with an idea for a marketing
character - the "Gemini Genie". This character was used on marketing and
advertising pieces sent to their customers. |
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Transcending Mundane Publishing
This client needed an illustration of two ski bums riding up a chair lift.
He decided to use it on the cover of his book
Nuts in the Woodwork.
The second book,
Utah or
Bust!, is a collection of writings from a newspaper he publishes
called Wild Utah. If you like snowboarding or skiing and like eclectic poetry and stream of conscience
writing then check out his Web site and
order a copy of
one of his books. |
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Meditatees
- Here's an illustration I
did for a man who taught meditation. He asked me to illustrate the
phrase "Meditation- A Brain Vacation" for a t-shirt. |
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Pro Portsmouth
- Each year Pro Portsmouth, Inc. holds an annual competition for the
design of that year's logo for Market Square Days (an arts festival in
Portsmouth, NH). I won in 1998 with the first drawing. But, once I
won, I worked with the organizers and modified the illustration to
create what they needed, adding certain elements they felt were
necessary. The results can be seen in the second picture |
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Blackwell Science Publishers -
After doing the cover for their first
Books for Medical
Students; I helped them create an advertising/marketing character I call
"Sleepy Intern Guy" which was targeted at medical students. They have used this
character in many applications from covers of catalogues to marketing and advertising
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Fidelity Investments -
In this
situation the client (Fidelity) had the ideas already worked out. They were trying to
promote team work between two departments and wanted me to draw the following two scenes. |
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Tremont 647 -
Here, the client needed a logo for a
restaurant they were opening. Again, they already came to me with the idea of the skyline
of Boston in a bowl with flames all around, what I did was illustrate their idea. |
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The MiniGolf Place
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In this
situation, the client needed a logo for a minigolf course he was opening. He gave me
complete artistic freedom. Besides using it as their logo, this character was also used in
different advertising and marketing materials. |
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