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

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

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!

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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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