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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. After creating her logo, I designed some business cards and this is the one she finally decided on. Finished July 2006. Back to Top
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Everyone was so pleased with the ad for the last magazine, that they asked me to do another one for the Fall edition. Even the printer had made mention how impressed they were with the ad, especially compared with the fare that they usually get from Tattoo Studios. With this ad, there has been so much interest in it that there has been talk about making it into a poster to sell on the website. Printed June 2006. Back to Top
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To go along with the magazine ad, I developed a t-shirt design for the shop. Printing with this image on the back and the SleeveMasters logo on the front pocket. Printed May 2006. Back to Top
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This is an instructional sheet for my customers at the tattoo shop. Originally I had helped Jim come up with a version of this for Matthew at Perforations. I redrew the girl and changed the bear into a dragon, then I vector drew and colored both the girl and dragon and made both this color version and a black and white one that I could photocopy and hand out with each tattoo. The final product is very cutesy and ironic considering it's in a tattoo shop where everything is usually quite rough. Printed April 2006. Back to Top
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It wasn't long after I started working at SleeveMasters that they realized just what I could do with the computer. Once they found out, I've been in charge of everything from the business card layouts to the website. This is the final version of an ad that will go in the 6th volume of Tattoo Revival: The Body Art Journal, an oversized, premium format, tattoo pictoral magazine. The original ad, from Volume 5, needed a bit of revamping. I like to think this new version is better.
Printed January 2006. Back to Top
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One of my tattoo clients needed a business card. She saw my business cards and thought I might be able to help her. I sat down with her for a few hours over coffee, sussed out what she was looking for and came up with this. She was ecstatic. Printed December 2006. Back to Top
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A couple months after I started working at SleeveMasters in Sydney, I decided that I should make up some business cards of my own, mainly because I was tired of hand writing my name and information on the standard SleeveMasters business cards. I used some of the same layout styles that I used for Matthew's Perforations cards, but with my machines, my needles, and my artwork.
Printed October 2005. Back to Top
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The stage manager of Broadway Baby's production of "Sex, Lies, and the IRS" had me create a number of business cards, draft cards, social security cards, and birth certificates for the show. Lucky for me she gave me some warning this time around. I had plenty of time to make some really nice reproductions. Although these are electronic images, the final products were printed on an ink-jet printer. Due to the quality of printing and the varied paper stock, the finished products were nearly indistinguishable from the real deal. Printed September 2004. Back to Top
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Tony had me doing some more work for his wreath business. This flyer represented a lot of hours of photo editing and careful trimming because the photos that I was given to work from were not what I would consider professional photos. Anyway, it made my job difficult, but I'm pleased with the end result. Printed September 2004. Back to Top
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This is the second design that I made for Matthew while I was at Perforations. This design incorporated the amalgam style that I had recently started using on designs at Country Maid. It has HIS tattoo machines, along with his mascot and some other tattoo paraphernalia. Printed March 2004. Back to Top
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Matthew needed another sign let everyone know that there would be no tattoo for under a certain amount. It's not to be greedy, but all those supplies can only be used once... it gets expensive after a while. Anyway, this is what I came up with, giving a nod to the Grateful Dead bears. Printed December 2003. Back to Top
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Matthew needed a sign for the door to tell everyone the hours. Simple, to the point. Printed December 2003. Back to Top
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Matthew had me design his business cards for the shop. This is the first design I came up with. The tears in the black lines are supposed to represent claw marks. In the end, I decided that it was just too messy to be effective and ended up redesigning them. Printed December 2003. Back to Top
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I did a lot of graphic art work while for Perforations while I was apprenticing under Matthew. This is one of the first. He needed a gift certificate to hand out as a prize at a local club. This is what I came up with. It uses his new mascot, the bear with tattoos. Printed December 2003. Back to Top
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Here is another last minute product for Broadway Baby. The stage manager had a last minute reqest for some menus for their production of Wally's Cafe. Oh, if I forgot to mention it, they opened the night that I received the information to produce this. Considering how rushed I was, it turned out quite nicely. All the funny in the writing is courtesy of Jim Schweitzer. If you're looking for some funny copy, this is the guy to go to. Click here to view an Adobe Acrobat version. It's a lot easier to read. Printed January 2004. Back to Top
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Klockit commissioned me to illustrate the assembly of their skeleton movement clock. This was easily the most difficult isometric drawing I've had to do, to date. They didn't require that I put in as much detail as I decided to include, but the end result was so impressive... and honestly I just can't resist. Printed November 2003. Back to Top
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Klockit commissioned me to create two seperate assembly instruction illustrations of the Galileo Thermometer kits. The Thermometer itself took a while to illustrate properly, but the end result was worth it. Printed October 2003. Back to Top
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This is one of those projects that just really got under my skin because of the circumstances surrounding it. I had already been commissioned to do the Gallileo Thermometer illustrations and the deadline was already pretty tight. My good friend calls me up and tells me that he needs this project done. I replied that I could do it, but I'd need a week to complete it. He calls me back and tells me he needs them for a presentation in two days. I don't mind performing miracles... but sometimes people don't understand the time constraints us immortals are under... we still have to live in the human world. Just because we're here longer doesn't necessarily mean that we just hang out and have all the time in the world. Printed October 2003. Back to Top
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The stage manager of Broadway Baby's production of "Funny Money" had me create these chocolate bar wrappers to give as gifts to her crew and cast. Printed September 2003. Back to Top
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My good buddy Noah called me up out of the blue and needed a graphic artist, pronto. He had painted artwork but needed to have someone put it together for print. I had to do a bit of photoshopping to erase some mistakes in the artwork, edit some words, add entire hand-written paragraphs. I even had to create the logo for the front cover. For having all the artwork finished, I sure felt like I was doing a lot of work. Noah paid well, though, and I can add a national band album cover to my resume. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat file of the finished art with all the fun crop marks and notes. Printed June 2003. Back to Top
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The producers of 'Forever Plaid' asked me to duplicate this certificate so they could have them reprinted for the show. The original was badly pixelated so the entire piece had to be recreated. This is the result. Printed April 2003. Back to Top
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I was commissioned to do some fake book covers for a production of "Norman, Is That You?" at Broadway Baby in Milwaukee. I got a little carried away and did a much better production than was needed for the live stage. I used some of my friends as "authors" on the books. They turned out very nice and everyone loved them. Even the "authors". This first one, though, was a reproduction of an actual book that was needed for the same show. Subsequent books are all fictitious. Printed February 2003. Back to Top
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I've been helping out with Grave Sights Hearse Club since it's first year. This year I created a graphic for the Hearse MeAt T-shirt from a sketch that someone had made. The front picture is not my concept, only my finished art. The back was intended to be a couple of dancing skeletons, but the resolution of the artwork wasn't sufficient for the printer, so in the 11th hour they called me up to design something for the back quick to get to the printer. This is what I came up with, everyone loved it. Printed August 2002. Back to Top
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I also put together the Grave Sights Laminates for the Hearse MeAt. The initial design was someone elses, but I cleaned it up quite a bit and did all the work. They turned out nice. Printed August 2002. Back to Top
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Thanks to Mr. Happy, Klockit commissioned me to do some work for them. The following are some technical drawings that were used in the assembly instructions. Printed April 2002. Back to Top
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This was a test of my skills to get the job at Klockit. They already had instructions for this model, but Happy asked me to create some from a picture of the clock. They were very impressed. Although I also had a black and white version, I also created this color version to really "wow" them. It worked, I got the job. Printed March 2003. Back to Top
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I also made up a couple sheets of plans from blueprint to bring with the Golfer design just to show that I could do some more complex block illustrations from blueprint. Printed March 2002. Back to Top
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When Random Maxx released their second album, Rock Star Parking, I created a series of trading cards with each of the members as superheros. Each card was printed, front and back, on an ink-jet printer with a hand printed hologram and then laminated and cut out of full sheets. One card was put in each album. This is one of the finished cards, scanned in.
Printed November 2001. Back to Top
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The Chicago band, The Onlys asked me to print them some stickers. I came up with this round sticker and a bumper sticker version using the artwork from their website. Unfortunately, the band had to change it's name soon after, and is now known as The Rosedales. Printed August 2001. Back to Top
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The organizers of Grave Sights Hease Club asked me to design them a bumper sticker that they could sell at their first ralley. I got a little carried away. Printed August 2001. Back to Top
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This album cover was designed and printed for the band Purr, which broke up soon after they recorded the
album. I had designed a number of logos, which you can see on my
graphic design page, but they ended up choosing a design that the drummer had
conceptualized. Printed February 2001. Back to Top
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This is VHS box art for Motor City Sales by Bartoli Filmworks
& Terry's All Car Productions. I wasn't driving at the time, so I had to take a bus for a 90 minute ride and
take poleroid pictures (before I had a chance to get my hands on a digital), then rush back to get the
photos edited. I spliced 3 poleroids together (if you're sharp, you'll notice one of the pickup trucks is much
thinner than it really should be) and changed the name of the dealership to have the Motor City Sales logos.
The entire project was under a very tight deadline. Finished January 1999. Back to Top
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This character was requested for a flyer for The Milwaukee Independent Film
Society (or MIFS). I was asked to make a 50's/60's style movie usher announcing something. The finished
product follows. Finished January 1999.
8x10in. Back to Top
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The final output of The MIFS flyer.
Printed January 1999.
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This piece was designed for Video Attic as a membership application. Very simple design.
Printed June 1999. Back to Top
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This program was designed for the independent film, Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels. I designed a
number of logos for Squirrels that you can view on my graphic design page.
Printed May 1999. Back to Top
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This poster was designed for the independent film, Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels for it's Lake Geneva
screening. Printed April 1999. Back to Top
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This poster was designed as a promotional flyer for Video Attic that was placed in the local newspaper. It
contained a lot of information that needed to be gotten across. Printed June 1999. Back to Top
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This poster, also for Video Attic, was again put in the local newspaper. It has a slightly different design.
Printed July 1999. Back to Top
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This poster was designed for the independent film, Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels. Back to Top
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This is a design that I printed for a Christmas present for my mother. We're always kidding her that she's like June Cleaver on speed. She just doesn't stop! I really like this picture because it shows off my photo editing abilities. The face of Wally has been replaced with my face and the face of the Beaver has been replaced with my little brothers face. The overall result is a little unsettling. Finished December 1998. Back to Top
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This t-shirt design was created for Rich Paro and his band at the time, Audacious Blitz. I came up with a logo for the band, and a title for the t-shirt from the description of the picture that Rich requested (a purposeful misspelling to illicit feelings of insecurity and existing in spite of adversity.) Unfortunately, soon after their big gig where they sold these, they packed it in. So it goes for most bands, I find. Printed July 1995. Back to Top
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This is a t-shirt I designed for The Northwestern University Dance Team. Printed April 1994. Back to Top
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This is a t-shirt I designed for The Northwestern University Cheerleading Squad. A friend of mine from high school was attending NU and had joined the cheerleading squad. He got me one of my first paying art jobs. Printed October 1993. Back to Top
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