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30 Jul

Posted at 06:18h in Toy Design

  Here's another project from my "secret files" that I finally have permission to show: Back in 2012 I was hired by Idea Planet to help out with a display for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, in conjunction with Southwest Airlines. They were having a promotional event that included a booth where fans could have their pictures taken next to a life-sized statue of the team mascot, Bernie Brewer....

23 Jul

Posted at 16:57h in Comp Art & FPO

Here's another never-before-seen piece from my files. Way back in 2010 I was hired by the award-winning Minneapolis agency KNOCK to help them sketch up some FPO marker comps for Target. Target needed some endcap signage with a wine-and-cheese theme and KNOCK was pitching them some concepts. If my memory is correct they sent me some rough thumbnails along with some specific...

22 Jul

Posted at 07:19h in Illustration

I've been very fortunate to work on a lot of fun projects for Hasbro over the past few years. 95% of it is concept and presentation art for internal use only, which means I have to keep it under lock and key. I've got dozens and dozens of images that I would really love to put in my portfolio but I can't....

21 Jul

Posted at 14:20h in Illustration

Back in 2011 I was hired by illustrator/designer Sherwin Schwartzrock to assist him with a back-of-the-program ad for Target Field (if you're as clueless about sports as I am, that's the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium). We were under a time crunch so he provided me with a rough sketch, I quickly inked it, and then he laid in the color and...

15 Jul

Posted at 08:57h in Illustration

(Click to enlarge.) The Minneapolis StarTribune recently approached me about doing a series of weekly infographics which they would write and I would illustrate. The plan was to feature them in the newspaper and on their website, and to have them sponsored by a large Minnesota company. They hired me to do this sample infographic about wood ticks to help sell the...