Make-A-Wish Foundation Annual Reports

While working at CommuniQué Marketing I was offered the chance to do some pro bono work for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Periodically one of the designers would layout the foundation's annual report. For the years 1999 and 2000 I was fortunate to work with the foundation in designing their annual report. The images above are scans of the actual covers. I remember these projects well, as these were the first multi-page layout design projects that I took from start to finish. While it helped the foundation it also helped me gain a better understanding of laying out multi-page documents as well as seeing it all the way through to final press run.

United States Capitol Porcelain Bowl

This is a Revere Bowl that I worked on at Design Masters. It shows the four stages of the United States Capitol Building. This was pretty much a straight forward digital design. At the time, I did not have access to a 3D program so I used the built in 3D revolve capabilities of Illustrator and mapped art to the shape. It had it's limitations and hurdles but I was able to find a way to make it work for the conceptual rendering that is seen at the top. It gave me the ability to see and adjust how the art would look on the final bowl. The actual bowl can be purchased from the United States Historical Society. Additionally it was bonus that I noticed while binge watching the Netflix series House of Cards that the bowl I worked on was being used as a regular prop. Some of the scenes are posted below the conceptual rendering of the bowl.

de Young Museum Magnet

This was a magnet done for the de Young Museum. It was also was done as a keychain. The copper discs used for these magnets and keychains were recycled from the construction of the perforated walls of the new museum design. This is an excerpt from their website regarding the building. "The building’s dramatic copper facade is perforated and textured to replicate the impression made by light filtering through a tree canopy, creating an artistic abstraction on the exterior of the museum that resonates with the de Young's tree-filled park setting. The building's copper skin, chosen for its changeable quality through oxidation, will assume a rich patina over time that will blend gracefully with the surrounding natural environment." 

In order to simulate the intent of the actual building. I designed the magnet so it had a spot varnish that would allow the magnet to age in a similar fashion. With time the pattern would oxidate and becom more evident. The packaging tied in with a metallic copper ink for the graphics.

The magnets are still being sold in their giftshop · de Young & Legion of Honor Museum Stores
More information regarding the museum can be found here · de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco

Historic Jamestowne Telescope Packaging

My job at DMA involves all aspects of the product. In this case, the product was established, but we needed to update it with site specific graphics. I researched the site for imagery and colors. Above you can see the style applied to the packaging. This style was used in some shape or form for other products that we developed for them. Sometimes, seeing packaging come to life can be as equally satisfying as seeing the actual product come to life.