Sandwich Board

As you know, I don't do a lot of traditional graphic design. Mostly I create logos, icons and illustrative designs for my clients. However, my friend Pat Skelly of BI needed some quick help with a sandwich board. Pat called me on a Monday to ask my availability. Content for the street posters trickled in throughout the week with the final image of Denise Austin coming in Thursday morning. I sent final art files Thursday Noon to Pat who had Kinkos print the posters in St. Louis on Friday for a Saturday event. Has anyone else noticed that the speed of business is getting faster and faster?

Women's Ministry

Here's a logo I recently finished for my church.

Nash for MN Rep.

My friend, Jim Nash is running for the Republican nomination to compete for the MN state representative seat in district 34A. He asked my help for a logo years ago when he successfully ran for a seat on the Waconia city council. Now he's running for state representative. What's next? Govenor?

Seriously, Jim is a solid character. But I have yet to understand why people would want these thankless jobs...

Writing on the Wall

Here's another t-shirt design for a Christian printer in the UK. I took some liberties with this story from the book of Daniel. (:

Target Field Ads

When you're visiting the new Minnesota Twins stadium, Target Field... be sure to flip over your program. I created the illustrations for a series of back cover ads (two are shown here) designed by InHouse art director, Jason Miller. I need to also mention that the in-house department at Target has really been creating some wonderful work since their inception. Much of it was noticed recently by AIGA Design Show judges and won cubes.

Blackwood Portfolio

A while back, I showed you the brochure I designed for Blackwood Management Group... and their crazy expensive business card. Well, they finally got their portfolios finished and this is where all of the pieces come together.

LogoLounge 6

The winning logo designers for the new LogoLounge 6 book have been notified and I'm glad to say that 25 of my logos have been selected. Click on the image below to get a better look.

I was also a judge for the book along with Bart Crosby of Crosby Associates, Hans Hulsbosch of Hulsbosch, Jeannie Servaas of Saffron Brand Consultants Inc., Jessica Hische of Jessica Hische, Marius Ursache of Grapefruit, Silvio Giorgi of Latinbrand, and Tessa Westermeyer of Landor.

Judging wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Since 34,000 logos were entered for consideration, it was a marathon process. I found it difficult to keep my criteria for judging consistent throughout the whole process. At each session, I would start out giving positive grades liberally. As the hours dragged on, I became more and more cynical. The inconsistency made me go back several times to correct previous grades which prolonged the process even more. Even so, I was honored to be selected as a judge and feel I did my best at grading a very impressive body of work.