Last fall I was hired by Toys-R-Us to develop some rough concept sketches for a race track playset they were working on. The idea was to decorate the track with interactive elements including a grandstand, pit stop, oil spill, and orange cones. These are some of the rough sketches I worked up based on the ideas they described. Ultimately the...
It's been over a year since I last refreshed my PDF Portfolios. Since I just posted a brand spankin' new logo, I thought it would be a good time to update them as well. The new portfolios come in four flavors: Character Design, Toy Design, Illustration, and FPO/Comp Art. Click the links to download or grab them off my Downloads...
A few months ago I was hired by DecoPac, Inc. to design a "Cut The Rope" toy for their novelty cakes. Here's how the final product turned out. Look for it at your local bakery this Spring. Nom! Nom! ...
Last year I was contacted by the Quois Corporation, a toy company in China that specializes in technology-based toys. They wanted to create an interactive slide projector and hired me to work up some ideas. The toy needed to have a projector lens, a slot for inserting cartridges and/or a thumb drive, and a method for advancing the slides. Here's a...
One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. They design many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in grocery store bakeries. They also create various toys and novelties to put on top of the cakes, often tying in with licensed characters and brands. Last year they commissioned me to design a set of cake-top toys to tie...
[caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Tray design copyright © DecoPac, Inc. Avengers copyright © Marvel. All rights reserved."][/caption] One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they design many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in grocery store bakeries. They also create various toys and novelties to put on top of the cakes, often tying...
