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I got an opportunity to redesign a logo for a custom motorcycle shop. Green Snake Customs was talking to my former counterhand, Lee, and asked him to come up with a logo for their new shop. Lee started a nice sketch and then handed it over to me, because he knew I had a lot of experience doing designs that look really crisp, professional, and work well for all kinds of media. The niftiest part about doing this logo, is that this isn't going to be a small time shop. They're opening with a big party, making up t-shirts and caps, and building a couple of $250,000 motorcycles with my logo STAMPED on the tank! Finished July 2006. Back to Top
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A neighbor approached me to do some design work for her. She wanted a website and logo and business cards to start up her new catering business. I designed up 3 pages of logos, admittedly, some of the logos are simply some fancy fonts, but they're needed to get an idea of the kind of design that she was looking for. The fourth sheet is the second draft. After looking at the first three sheets, she chose some designs she liked and some fonts and some aspects of the logos and I took those choices and crammed them together in seven new designs. From that she picked a few pieces from those and the result is this final design.
The next step took us to the business cards. I created the above designs and from there we did some adjusting until we finally decided on this final design. Finished July 2006. Back to Top
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After months of procrastination, I finally finished the drawing of the girl with the steak to compliment the baby dragon for my Tattoo care sheets. This is the final vector drawn image with color. Finished April 2006. Back to Top
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It wasn't long after starting at SleeveMasters that I realized just how poor their logo was. It had been drawn up a dozen times and every time it was by hand. There are certain aspects of logos that are very difficult to get right with a pen. So, being very careful not to step on anyone's toes, as people can be very attached to their logos, I suggested a redesign. I kept the original design, just cleaned up the lines and fonts. Everyone has been very happy so far and it's been used for everything from Zippo lighters to magazine ads...from the business cards to the website. Finished November 2005. Back to Top
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While I was working at SleeveMasters, I needed something cute to use as a personal identifier. I wanted to use this primarily for my tattoo care sheets, but figured I could use him on a number of other signs as well. I drew and original design in my sketchbook and then vector drew and colored the image. This way the dragon can be changed to any color with a simple click. Finished October 2005. Back to Top
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While I was working at Perforations, I got to know Jerry, The Milwaukee Mauler, an ex-wrestler turned business man. He was going to put together a tattoo convention. Plans fell through, but this is the design for the poster and the matching T-shirt. Finished March 2004. Back to Top
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This was a design for a paintball company. Headhunter Paintball out of Madison. The logo consisted of the mask for the icon, Headhunter for the logo, and a headhunter with a paintball gun for the mascot. He came out kind of cute and kind of gross. Which really worked. Finished December 2003. Back to Top
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I was working on the Random Maxx website and I needed a button. I quick whipped this together and everyone just loved it. Not that is anything that spectacular, but it is a very nice, very clean design that incorporates all the important parts of the Random Maxx logo into one tiny bite. Finished January 2002. Back to Top
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This character is a sketchbook peice that was eventually turned into a Baraboo SYSCO food show display for Country Maid, Inc. To see more of my work at
Country Maid, Inc., go to the Country Maid section of my Graphics area. Finished April 2001. Back to Top
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This sheet of logos was designed for a band that broke up soon after recording their album. I also designed their
album cover which is located on my print graphics page.
The band was called Purr. They ended up picking a design that the drummer had sketched out. While it
appeared that he did have some graphics training, I still had to clean it up for production.
Finished January 2001. Back to Top
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This logo was for a company that Jerry Wheeler and I were going to start. After some irritating setbacks, we decided against the idea and he sold the domain to a Canadian company. I just always liked the logo.
Finished January 2001. Back to Top
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I was given the task of designing a logo and business cards for Arendt
Enterprises. This is a sheet of the designs I came up with. Finished September 2000. Back to Top
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This is the finished version of the Arendt Enterprises business card.
Finished September 2000. Back to Top
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This is the finished version of the Arendt Enterprises computer logo. Go to
www.aepro.com to see how the logos were used in their website.
Finished September 2000. Back to Top
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I was given a rough sketch of a proposed logo for Abnormal Productions. This is the finished artwork
with custom lettering. Finished May 2000. Back to Top
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After I bowed out of a band I had put together, they reformed as Earshot. As we had parted on good terms,
I offered my services in creating a logo. This is a page of logos that I brainstormed around the idea of:
Earshot: The shot heard 'round the world! Finished March 2000. Back to Top
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After Earshot selected a logo, I created a number of covers based around the logos theme. This was the finished
product for their album. Finished March 2000. Back to Top
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This was for my bands first album, unfortunately they decided to fire me before we could finish it. Funny story behind it, and likely one of the reasons for the firing: We were sitting around deciding what to call the band and what to put on an album cover. One of the guys said, "We should find an artist to paint our album cover." A bit taken aback, I asked, "Do you guys have any idea what I do for a living?" So I convinced them to give me a shot at making a quick mock up to see if I could deliver. One guideline: Don't make it religious because with a name like No Ones God we don't want anyone thinking we're a Christian rock group. So, being the obnoxious person that I am, I decided to make it as religious as possible and see if I could sneak it in under their radar. The knotted tree over the earth represents the cross (tree) being the salvation of the world. The skull in the tree represents Christ's dominion over death. The thorns in the background re-emphasized the idea of Jesus and his crucification. As I guessed, they loved it... then I broke the news. I can be such a jerk. HA!
Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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Rich Paro asked me to burn a couple of CD's from bootleg cassettes he had purchased. Rather than burn them and
give him some blank disks, I designed some nice album covers for the jewel cases and printed them out on my ink-
jet printer. All of the artwork for the following few albums was derived from pictures gleaned off the internet.
This first album is for an Ani DeFranco bootleg. Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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On this album cover (again for Rich) I couldn't find any pictures
on the internet. The band was rather short on popularity and finding anything about them was difficult. I ended
up reproducing the cover design (which was quite worn) and making up some of it as I went along. This cover was for an
old copy of Darling Cruel. Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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Another bootleg that Rich had almost destroyed. I really enjoyed
this one, partially because of the duotone design that I used. Everything really came across with a classic feel
and balanced well. This was for a bootleg radio broadcast of The Replacements last concert. Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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Rich certainly has a thing for bootlegs. This one was a bit
more difficult. All the pictures I could find were much too small to use for printing. Especially the cover
picture which I edited heavily with Photo-Paint tools in order to get the desired effect. This was for a Soul
Asylum bootleg. Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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Ok, the last album cover for Rich. This one was from an old vinyl
album that was just too inconvienient for him to listen to. I really liked the output of this one as well. The
whole album just seems to have the same feel that Woody Allen's movies do. This was for a Woody Allen stand-up
recording. Finished February 2000. Back to Top
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A friend of mine, Chris Rothkopf, was starting his own business. He gave me a rough idea
of what he was looking for and I designed this logo for ACNS. If you're in need of anything computer related, you might want to drop him a line... he knows his stuff. Finished August 1999. Back to Top
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Rich Paro of
Curmudgeon Productions
requested a logo/poster for his movie Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels. Rich deemed these two ink
drawings too grotesque for his purposes. Finished January 1999. Back to Top
8x10in.
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I drew this up as a model for the overhead section of a set of french doors in my loft in Milwaukee. The design mimicks themes in my crest, which you can see on my homepage. Hopefully I'll one day have a picture of the finished doors (as I have since sold them) for my woodworking section. Finished January 1999. Back to Top
8x2in.
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Eventually Random Maxx wanted to record an album and I set to work designing a cover. This was my suggestion on the criteria I was given. They had a tendency, in the old days, to swap instruments in the middle of the set while gabbing with the crowd. Hence all the references to not knowing who is playing what and jumping around. They ended up having someone else design a completely different cover. Finished November 1998. Back to Top
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My band, No Ones God sort of splinterd and became Random Maxx. Not one to hold grudges, I helped them in designing their new logo. Here are five suggestions rendered in both color and black and white. They went with the second one from the bottom and still use it today. Finished March 1998. Back to Top
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This piece was produced at the request of a friend who belonged to a fraternity at
Carthage College. It was intended to be printed on
a plastic mug to celebrate "Greek Week". I finished under the deadline,
but they didn't wait and ended up using some poorly sketched artwork by someone else. Hence this piece was never printed.
Finished February 1997. Back to Top
8x10in.
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This marker rendering was completed as an album cover for the band Suffering Social. Unfortunately, Suffering Social broke up before the album was finished. Finished June 1995. Back to Top
8x10in.
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This was a college art project for my Design 2 class. The assignment was to create either a Buell or Cobra one page ad, no descriptive text. This design was not the original intent that I had. The finished product was red and white on black. What you are viewing is the assignment before I removed the masking. I thought the design was so strong in a black on black format that I immediately took a picture of it for posterity. The end assignment was not nearly as strong.
Finished March 1993. Back to Top
14x17in.
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This was a Design 2 project in college. We were to render a picture in 3 different styles: Realistic, stylized, and caricature. I chose a girl that I had been recently infatuated with. The relationship never really took off, but the assignment is one of my favorites. From left to right: pencil sketch, airbrush, and pen and ink, all on coldpress board. Finished March 1993. Back to Top
11x14in.
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This was a college art project for my Advanced Layout class. The assignment: to create a 3 color t-shirt and make the art pre-press ready. I was hanging out with some members of the band Arcana Diamond at the time and they thought it would be cool if I designed a logo for them. This was the result of combining the two projects. The amber-lithe (orange) represents a white flood, ruby-lithe (red) represents a light-blue, and black is black.
Finished February 1993. Back to Top
14x17in.
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This was an assignment for my Layout class in college. The class was divided into groups and we were given the assignment of selling a product. Our group picked Band-aid out of the hat. We collectively decided on a theme and this was my design and layout for that theme. I rendered it with layout markers and opaque white paint.
Finished December 1992. Back to Top
11x14in.
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This was one of the final class projects for Topography with Mr. Bonifay. The assignment was to create the title page for a novel. We were given certain critera to follow, but in the directions I must have missed one of the key points. All during our class, we had been lettering everything by hand. No rub-offs, no computers. I had taken this assignment to be the same and lettered the entire thing by hand. When I presented it to Mr. Bonifay for critique and grade, he complimented it saying,"This is very nice, how did you do this, on computer?" I stammered a little and apologized that no it wasn't on computer or rub-offs, I had hand lettered it, that I must have misunderstood the assignment and would be more than willing to redo it if given the chance. He replied (quite loudly), "This is all HAND LETTERED?? You have an A for the semester!" Apparently I did a good job. Finished December 1991. Back to Top
8x10in.
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This is an early rendition of the Chase Original Art and Design logo. This was one of my class projects for Topography with Mr. Bonifay. I liked Mr. Bonifay, he was really cool. He also liked this design. Finished November 1991. Back to Top
17x14in.
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