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 [...]

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 [...]

Interferry Powerpoint template I redesigned the Interferry Powerpoint template so that all Interferry Powerpoint presentations will have a consistent look and feel. I included lots of master pages with various options for image and graphic placements and treatments, as well a multitude of options for typography. I chose Calibri as the font – although it [...]

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 [...]

Interferry Stage Backdrops 10' x 30' These are a few of the stage backdrops designed for the Interferry Conference. I use graphic elements, colors and images from the year's marketing materials. It's important to have the text high enough so that it appears clearly as a background feature in photographs.

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 [...]

Rumble at the Rink 10' x 24' There's a lot going on here, but this sign looked great in the air. I used the supplied photo and played off of it to create the strong diagonal element which defines the sign. I made the sponsor logos larger than I typically do in order to emulate [...]

Fast Time Grand Prix billboard 10' x 24' This one was fun to work on. The big, bold text was readable from a long way off and combined with the strong image and bright colors the message was very clear. Concept, design, Photoshop (extended the track quite a bit, moved the second place car back, [...]

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 [...]