Walk the line

Here is a fun publication I did. It's a walking tour map and guide of the University Circle area. I was the art director and production manager, coordinating the production and materials, with multiple clients, advertisers and the various other organizations involved in the project. Click on the image for a closer look!

Grow light

It's been a while since I've had fun project I could share. Here's a logo I designed for an education consulting non-profit...

Retro-rocket!

This is a logo I designed for a comic strip I'm working on, click on the image for a closer look!

Cover story

Originally designed for collection of poetry and illustrations inspired by ancient myths and legends, this cover and the interior layout and design, ended up being rejected, the client going a different direction. When I started the project I wanted the cover to convey a lazy afternoon walk through history and legends magically side by side in one park, I liked it so much I might still use it for a future project, hopefully with a less cumbersome title.

Click on the image for a closer look. (I removed the original names in the below image at the request of the author).

Grow Team!

This is a three-fold brochure design I designed for growNeo.org, a referral based business networking group based in the Cleveland and surrounding areas.

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Outside

Inside

Trailer park

Produced for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association, to comemmerate the Tenth Anniversary of Ohio's historic Towpath Trail, this is one of my favorite examples of publication design. I served as both Production Manager and Art Director, taking the project from start to finish, this twenty-four page piece was put together in two days, meeting a print deadline that couldn't be missed!

Check please!

Here is a publication I designed for a great multi-faceted construction company, that has over 25 years of experience in residential and light commercial construction in Ohio, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as expert witness consulting, and fraud prevention.

Home pages

These are some sample pages from a 12 page, full color magazine I designed for a marketing, advertising and consulting firm. The client is an amazing Ohio based home builder. Click on the images for a closer look!

Grow sure

Two versions of a flyer for growNeo.org, a referral based business networking group based in the Cleveland and surrounding areas. Click on the images for a closer look.

When does it make sense to self publish?

If you're a successful business person, a book could help you promote yourself as an expert. Having a book to sell could be great compliment at events were you've been asked to speak.  If you've been writing a blog for some time now to promote yourself as an expert, you probably already have enough great material archived to make a great book. Often you can write the initial expenses against marketing, and  the book can even begin to pay for itself as you sell copies of your books to clients and at speaking engagements and lectures.

It makes sense to self publish, if you can hire someone to do some, or all the work for you. Self-publishing isn't just for people who have written a memoir, cookbook or family history that they want to share with family and friends. Below are just two of the books I've helped people to publish. If you'd like to self-publish book, but don't want to do all the work, I can help. Send me an email and I can tell you how.














Ghetto Health
Vinnie Here

Carpet diem!

This is a marketing piece I just designed for a great company that does disaster clean-up and restoration. The owner seized a great opportunity to promote themselves to their new neighbors, a doggie day care. With discounts and special offers targeted specifically to dog owners! Click on the image for a closer look!

Rapport cards

This was great fun for me. I designed this entire deck of 54 animal cards, and I saw it through every step of the publishing process, including package design. I am currently working on designs for a new box for the second printing.

Animals Tell the Truth, Wisdom Cards

Game programer

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Gameday program. This was a great fun project, I had to coordinate with national and local advertisers, the NFL and the wonderful people at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The NFL provided the covers and one interior section, the rest was up to me, designing and redesigning pages to be colorful and new for fans who had been coming to the annual game and ceremony for years!

Here are some of the covers and interior page layouts, click on the image for a closer look!

Working smarter

Here are some brochures I have designed. The brochure is still a great way to get your message out, as a hand-out, leave behind or in a point of purchase display you can target your clients with a carefully crafted presentation, and as self mailing piece you know your message is reaching the right people, because not everyone reads magazines or listens to commercial radio anymore, but everyone still checks their mailbox!  

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Poetic device

Here is a marketing piece I designed for a client who is a self-published author. He hadn't had much luck promoting a book he had put together which included both his poetry and a handful of illustrations by some of his friends. So we made this 8.5 x 11 promotional flyer for him to use. The piece could be used as a catalog advertisement or as a brochure sent to specialty shops, indy book sellers, or poetry clubs by traditional mail, or email as a full color PDF. Click on the image for a closer look!

Fireworks

Here is a logo I'm working on for Biga Wood-Fired Pizzeria, it's a new restaurant that serves authentic Napoletana-style pizza and a full menu cooked in a genuine Italian-made wood-fired oven.

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Good taste!

Here are a couple of black & white sponsor ads I'm working on for a program, for the Heights Youth Club annual "Taste of the Heights" fund raising event. It's a great fun night where dozens of local restaurants donate their time and best of all, their amazing food. There is live music and some amazing prize auctions. If you get the chance to go you should, not only is it a wonderful event, but the Heights Youth Club is amazing organization, and very deserving of our support!

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Fine woodworking

Here are some more pieces I'm working on for Biga Wood-Fired Pizzeria, a new restaurant that serves authentic Napoletana-style pizza and a full menu cooked in a genuine Italian-made wood-fired oven. Demonstrating a full color treatment that can be used in magazine ads, mailers and take-out menus, shown here as a bumper sticker, and some variations on the one color treatment from below, shown here on T-shirts and hats.

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Home schooling

Here are some pieces we did for Chefs-InHouse, a company that does private catering and private cooking lessons, run by some amazing chefs with over 35 years experience in the cooking/instructing industry. For a closer look click on the image and for more information about this fun unique service, please send an email to chefsinhouse@att.net
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Building codes

Here is a publication I designed for an industrial maintenance product manufacturer, that has over 100 years of experience in supplying industrial maintenance products for commercial construction and facilities management companies worldwide. Click on the image for a closer look!