Monday, March 16, 2009

Afterburner Technical Illustrations

The Afterburner is a product from Triton Labs, a video game industry client. It is a kit that for the first time ever allowed video gamers to install an internal lighting device inside their portable video games. The kit was very successful and to this day the largest video game hardware makers use similar technology that was spurred by its success.
The following are selected technical illustrations and layouts I did for the kit's instruction manual:



Sunday, March 15, 2009

Raincoat Packaging Project

A sketch of packaging for a line of raincoats for kids. We ended up going with a snap instead of zipper to keep costs down and added a couple straps so it could be hung in stores or carried. You can compare a vector illustration plan with the final product, the graphic system for this line was already in place and it was just a packaging upgrade.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Newspaper Editorial and Technical Illustration

These illustrations were done for The Sioux City Journal newspaper for a feature on the 25th anniversary of his death.

Examples of some of the political maps and weather icons I created for this newspaper:

Coffee Mug Gift Designs

I designed these two coffee mugs for a gift company (Giftco). The design wraps around so it's viewable twice on the mug. They are meant to be given as gifts from small children to their parents.