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...

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!

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

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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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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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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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!

Greeting cards

Here are some business cards I have designed. Click on the image for a closer look!

Image building

Here is a corporate identity I did for a construction company with 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.

The big problem was, as a small, family-owned company, competing head-to-head with much larger, national companies, with huge marketing budgets, the owner needed his companies proposals to look like they could compete. So I developed a new logo and updated the company image, designing a clean, solid corporate look, with elements that I incorporated into their office and marketing materials, and also provided materials for their website.  

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Two thirds

Here is a pair of magazine ads that I designed. I thought these were fun and dramatic, and magazine ads always remind me of one of the things I like most about my job, my business is helping other people with their business. 

Got mess?

This is a business card design we just did for a great company Restoration Express, that does disaster clean-up and restoration. Click on the image for a closer look!

County flare

Here is another example of publication design. This was a sixteen page magazine I designed for Northern Ohio Live magazine for the Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners and the Growth Partnership for Ashtabula County. Designed to run as a 16 page section of the magazine and to be over-run as a promotional vehicle for the Ashtabula County.

"Of courserous, can't you?"

Here is a marketing piece I did for Dr. Agnes Thomas, a highly sought-after speaker on animal mysticism. For the third printing of the book Pets Tell the Truth, which I helped her with, and her Animal's Tell the Truth, Wisdom Cards, which I designed. The flyer has also used as a magazine ad and a catalog ad. Click on the image for a closer look!

Pets Tell the Truth

Teachers Pets

Here a some CDs I designed for a pair of instructional audio books, written and read by Dr. Agnes Thomas, a highly sought-after speaker on animal mysticism.

Art direction

Here is a full page magazine ad I designed for the Cleveland Institute of Art. Photos by Rob Muller. Click on the images for a closer look!