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!

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.

Click on the images for a closer look. 

Outside

Inside

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.

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

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!

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!

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!

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.

Selling out

These are some marketing pieces I designed for a local magazine, they were sell sheets for special advertising sections. Click on the image for a closer look!