Category Archives: Illustration

S.T.R.A.P. tutorial and practicum

This past year I built a strap project filled with this example practicum and many small strap tutorials for students at Northwest Education services in Traverse City. The students and staff were amazing as we navigated one hour worth of content. Topics included what motion

Crystal the Polar Bear Campaign

I started work on Crystal serendipitously around nine months before Smokey the Bear’s Eightieth anniversary of his commercial debut. I realized in the summer that Smokey’s birthday is celebrated on the conceptualization of the campaign a couple months prior. Fortunately, I was able to match

Michigan Lottery Collages

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Logo Collection 2022: top four

This year I expanded into logos, it’s one of my favorite things to do, creating iconic glyphs to symbolize a company. The following post is a small batch of logos I created over the year featuring work from the Grand Rapids area and beyond using

Roth Shirt Co – Traverse City

I was interested in Roth Shirt Co’s brand and wanted to work with a local company to expand their social media influence. Here are several attempts to find their niche in animation.

Dragon Seed Book Cover

A while back I was wandering my library and found this old book called Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck. I was intrigued because I thought it might be about China. Since the book had no cover, I thought it would be appropriate to redesign

Academic Innovation

While working in the Instructional Design Department, under Academic Innovation at Full Sail University, I had some free time to come up with new logos for us to use across the department.

Magick Pants

Magick Pants Character Animator is a Rigging Software, I envisioned for After Effects and Adobe Illustrator, to expedite workflow.Above is a banner ad that would advertise on asscripts, creativecow, and other motion graphics web pages.