Miscellaneous Design

Every so often a musician needs a CD. Sara Thomson is a long-standing client, and I’ve done the packaging for several of her CDs. I think she has really great Kharma and I always hope a little bit rubs off on me when I work on these projects.

Just a T-shirt design submitted for the 2000 Grandma’s marathon. The retro typography was fun

Postcard for an evening of rosé tasting at one of the area’s finest restaurants.

Who ever gets to design shipping container graphics? This one sits in Frost River Trading Company’s parking lot, acting like an unusually-close-to-the-ground billboard.

An ad for a fun client, Nona Amour Wilson, who runs a bunch of antique shows. The Gas & Oil Show offers early and vintage Petroliana (i.e., old car-related stuff — not so much cars themselves, but gas pumps, oil cans, signs, and advertising)

Airport shuttle bus graphics.

A design for a local dock company’s switch engine.

Banners for their conference booths.

I’m kind of a coffee geek: I roast my own beans, for example. Until Eric Faust brought Duluth Coffee here (and started selling me his green beans), I had to source mine on the internet. Somehow, because of this rack card, I now get to walk behind the counter and pull my own shots (much to the amusement of the café’s actual baristas). Thanks, Eric!

Who knows where this came from? I like the energy of the hands and the purple-blue and green colors.

These CDs always have interesting, multipage booklets tucked inside. Alas, to see this one you’ll have to track down the CD.

This is a trade show table skirt. LDAR stands for “Leak detection and repair.” These guys use infrared cameras, drones and other technologies to search large industrial complexes for hard-to-detect leaks.