Interferry Conference Stage Backdrop – Santander, Spain 2021 The backdrop was the largest yet at 8 feet high by 36 feet wide. As usual the primary messaging is up high so that it is prominent in photographs. Brittany Ferries was the host sponsor and all the ferries are in their current fleet. The backdrop was [...]

Shawnigan Residents Association billboard 10'x24' and 10'x20' The Shawnigan Residents Association is currently fighting the location and operation of a toxic soil remediation site above the lake. After exploring some options for the design, including depicting tainted water, I suggested going with the idea of using clear water in a drinking glass which might appear [...]

Final Cut Pro 4 and The Art of Filmmaking • Sybex This project was a redesign based on an existing cover. The only design requirements were to use the same font for the title and of course for the SYBEX signature red to be emphasized. I used some existing amusement park images as a jumping [...]

The Letter R Mandala This is part of my ABCs mandala project. The idea is to create a mandala for every letter of the alphabet using toys and other objects that children would use and/or recognize. I love tin toys so the tin toy esthetic is used quite a bit. The blue-sky goal is to [...]

Sander Hicks campaign poster I created this poster for Sander Hicks, who was vying to be the Green Party nominee for the NY State Senate race. He allowed me some freedom with this design and it remains one of my favorites. I played off the dynamic photo and used "energetic" typography to symbolize Sanders' forthright [...]

Al Ward's Photoshop Productivity Toolkit • Sybex This cover was a completely new project to promote Al Ward's collection of "over 600 time-saving actions" for Photoshop. Some "before and after" images were supplied. I took the photo of the Sears Tower which turned out to be the perfect composition for the vertical space, and used [...]

Mandalas for the From the Ground Up book series Osborne/McGraw-Hill Each of these mandalas uses a variety of objects to represent the topics covered in each book title. I also designed the series covers. I call these illustrations "digital" mandalas. They are created by combining photography, illustration, scanned imagery, 3D renderings, bits and pieces into [...]

Integrated HTML and CSS book cover Sybex    

Cascading Style Sheets – The Designer's Edge book cover SYBEX Cascading Style Sheets – The Designer's Edge was created for Sybex Computer Publishing. It was one of the many titles in The Designer's Edge series which I designed. As usual, the signature Sybex red is the dominant color. I created the cover illustration using Photoshop [...]