The Getty Villa Acanthus Rosette Magnet

Here is another project I worked on at Design Masters. It was a sculpted magnet based on a ceiling rosette. The top image shows the packaging from the concept. It was not fully fleshed out at that point and during final art we moved in a slightly different direction while still keeping a similar feel. The magnets were carded so that they could hang on pegs.

George Washington's Fan Chair Ornament

This is one of the first packaging illustrations and packaging layouts I did for Design Masters. The ornament was a 24kt Gold Finish representation of George Washington's Fan Chair. This started out on vellum. For George and the chair I used ink. Coloring was all done in the computer. This was around the very early 2000s and I remember being amazed at construction of the ornament. At that point I had no knowledge of how to make one of these. Making these type of ornaments present their own set of challenges but really shine when done right.

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

2014 Texas State Capitol Ornament

The 2014 Texas State Capitol Ornament. This is an ornament that our company worked on. It was chosen out of at least 9 designs proposed. This one in particular was a design that I had worked up during the presentation phase. As with most ornaments we do at Design Masters, once a design is chosen, it is truly a team effort to bring the end product to life. The ornament really is stunning and the packaging just sets it off. At the top of this post is a rendering I did for how the end ornament would look. This is done with my "patented" bling action, additional digital illustration, and doowahs. The next image is a photo of the final lid. The interplay from the multiple foils really looks great. Below the lid is a movie of the ornament based on my very first rough rendering. I was toying with a new 3D program and wanted to see if I could build an ornament inside it. Since I was working on this ornament I used it as a test. It definitely took some time to do with the learning curve, but I was happy with the end result. Building in 3D is something I really would like to delve more into and whenever I can add a new skill, I take the chance. Overall this was a challenging and fun project to work on.  

Stop on by their gift shop and pick on up.    Texas State Capitol 2014 Ornament

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.

WHHA 2010 Annual Ornament Artwork

These were artworks that I created for the 2010 White House Historical Association Ornament. The artwork was used on the front and back of the ornament, as well as the packaging lid and booklet. Fun project. There was a ton of historical research done on everything from the building to the Marine Corps Band's Uniforms. This was one of those projects that involved a ton of people. I helped on pretty much everything involved with this ornament and packaging, but it really took practically the whole company to "birth" this beautiful ornament. This ornament as well as the current year and previous ornaments can still be purchased at the White House Historic Association. Click the link below to see the page for the 2010 ornament.

www.whitehousehistory.org

National Geographic Amazing Planet VHS Cover Mummies Unwrapped

This was the 3rd cover for the videos. I had a lot of fun with this one and was the second mummy Egyptian piece I had done to that point. Again, a lot of this was just made up. I did research some of the glyphs on the back of the wall and found reference for the top of the sarcophagus. The rest was just imagination. I remember that I was happy with the lighting in this image. The hand is mine. I just held my left hand in position and sketched it out.

National Geographic Amazing Planet VHS Cover Explosive Earth

This was the 2nd in the series of the video covers. I had a real difficult time with this one. It went through a couple of sketch phases. It really was made up totally. Not realistic in any sense of the word. Reference was real hard to find and when I made the blast chunks darker they just seemed odd. The only part I liked of this image was the blast coming out of the top of the volcano.

National Geographic Amazing Planet VHS Cover Creatures of the Deep

This is 1 of 4 covers I did for National Geographic Kids Videos back in 1996 or 1997 I think. I had to really search hard online to find these covers as they have updated the packaging since then. It looks like they only did 3 of the 4 videos. There was one for Tornadoes also. I will try to dig it up and find the art also. I remember making pretty good money on the series and thought that this would be the beginning of me breaking out in my freelance illustration career. More so it ended up probably being the beginning of the end oddly enough.