These are some of the design jobs I believe best represent my wide array of capabilities. Further examples may also be found within the "Additional Design" section.
Oakmore Commercial Real Estate: Offering Memorandum
A colleague referred Mr. Selick of Oakmore Real Estate to me and contracted me to produce a series of OM's for properties located around the Santa Ana California area. Most of these were in the range of 3-4 dozen pages and fully encompassed details of the properties and neighborhoods within which they are located.
Trilogy Fungi: Branding, Style Guide & Packaging Design
This project required that I develop a complete brand package for Sedona Arizona based Trilogy Fungi starting with an update of the corporations logo. From there I produced a style guide with labeling and packaging design guidelines for the product line.
CBRE: 921 11th Street Elks Tower Brochure
A promotional brochure that I designed for the Elks Tower located in Sacramento California.
CBRE: Bright MD Screen Presentation
A screen presentation that I was asked to assemble for a broker team to use in their pitch to Bright.MD for commercial real estate space.
CBRE: Building Logo Concepts
Used for a variety of marketing material but also as a chance to introduce new branding opportunities to a variety of clients in different industries.
Shilo Inns Website
Redesigning the Shilo Inns website was by far one of the largest and most complex projects I have had to under take and I was fortunate to have a talented developer (Mike Miller) and project manager (Chris Akans) to see it through from rendering to completion. A year prior I had been tasked with developing a "mobile" version of our companies site but during that process I began exploring the concept of "responsive" design & "mobile first" which had only just begun to become popular and I set about creating detailed renderings of how this would impact the 60+ pages of the companies website. Design and development was allotted 7 weeks, a rather tight deadline considering the amount of work to be undertaken by a team of 3 with the launch taking place in the last week of March.
Logo Designs
Various logo designs for a variety of companies and projects.
Pencil Illustrations
The following are some selected favorites from my many sketch books, further samples may also be seen within the "Daily Draw" sections of this site.
Photographic Image Restorations
Many times in my career I have been tasked with restoration of heavily damaged images. These are some examples of those restorations. Many would be cherished family photos with no backup or the only surviving images of members that were long deceased. Often times the images were water & heat damaged and stuck to fractured glass from a destroyed frame requiring a combination of flatbed scanning and digital photography.
William Weirick Political Campaign
Variety of materials I designed for the 2014 William Weirick City Council campaign in Ojai California. I was tasked with developing a logo and "theme" with a very tight deadline and budget. A multitude of printed materials were produced and Mr. Weirick went on to win the election to office.
eBay Logo Design for commercial spot
This was a same day design job for a logo passed to me as freelance. eBay is producing commercial spots for a series of fictitious sellers and companies to promote it's services both in video and print. I was commissioned to produce a logo for one of these "sellers" (Mari's Customs) to be used on various materials within the campaign.
Inroom Directory Booklets
This was a project to produce hotel directory booklets "in-house" using a Minolta Digital press. Previously the directories were black & white printed pages held in "pleather binders" that were a challenge to keep up to date and in presentable shape. Switching to producing these in-house as saddle stitched booklets cut the production cost down to 90 cents apiece and allowed guests to take them offsite after checking out turning them into mobile advertising pieces. I developed a logo family to also customize each locations book and these were typically about 16-18 pages in total.
Shilo Inns Seaside Oregon Billboards
These are a pair of billboards I designed advertising the Shilo Inns Hotel location in Seaside Oregon located on highway 101 both entering and exiting the city. Traditionally the billboards for Shilo Inns had been simple Red, White & Blue text with bullet points but I began presenting to the ownership redesigned versions that relied more heavily on photographs to help sell the location with minimal text. These received very positive reactions from travelers and the imagery & designs were used within other onsite printed materials such as rack cards, postcards & in-room directories.
Shilo Inns Email Newsletters
Examples of email newsletters I designed for advertising properties of Shilo Inns Suites Hotels & Restaurants. Generally on a weekly basis I would be tasked with production of email newsletters advertising both the hotel chain as well as the 9 managed restaurants. We utilized the MailChimp newsletter service and these newsletters were often times accompanied by supporting onsite printed materials and social media posts.
Shilo Inns Social Media Posts
On a weekly basis I would design graphic postings to be scheduled for distribution on the companies Facebook, Twitter & Instagram accounts. Many times these would promote written reviews from guests on various travel sites but also discount rates, codes & specials in support of email newsletter & print campaigns.
Travel Brochures
These are a series of travel flyers produced in-house for the sales agents across various states to advertise packages available at many of the hotel locations.
