These CDs always have interesting, multipage booklets tucked inside. Alas, to see this one you’ll have to track down the CD.
Sara Thompson “Everything Changes”
Sara Thompson “Everything Changes”
Done many years ago for their 1997 Viewbook. A map like this is as much a design project as an illustration.
Northland College map
Northland College map
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.
Insight Environmental Table Skirt
Insight Environmental Table Skirt
Who knows where this came from? I like the energy of the hands and the purple-blue and green colors.
Men as Peacemakers Poster
Men as Peacemakers Poster
Occasionally I’m asked to do package design. William’s Brewing had a plain cardboard shipping box for their Mashing Kit which they wanted to print in black only. Color is fun but there’s an enjoyable challenge in using just black ink.
Williams Brewing Mashing Kit packaging
Williams Brewing Mashing Kit packaging
Art galleries make for great clients: you get to work with beautiful images for people who just want everything to look elegant and cool.
Sivertson Calendar
Sivertson Calendar
Postcard for an evening of rosé tasting at one of the area’s finest restaurants.
Lake Avenue Café Rosé Wine Tasting invitation
Lake Avenue Café Rosé Wine Tasting invitation
Based on a photo of our house, I threw this together for a Christmas card in 2013. Great snow year!
Christmas Bungalow
Christmas Bungalow
Just a T-shirt design submitted for the 2000 Grandma’s marathon. The retro typography was fun
Grandma’s Marathon T-Shirt
Grandma’s Marathon T-Shirt
I’d never seen a good portrayal of the leading edge of a Great Ice Age glacier. Not sure that this is one either, but it gets the idea across.
From Amazing Agates: “Advancing Glacier”
From Amazing Agates: “Advancing Glacier”
A design for a local dock company’s switch engine.
Hallett Locomotive
Hallett Locomotive
Banners for their conference booths.
Insight Environmental Banners
Insight Environmental Banners
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.
Frost River CONEX Shipping Container
Frost River CONEX Shipping Container
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!
Duluth Coffee
Duluth Coffee
An interpretive panel done for the St. Louis River Alliance and the Minnesota Land Trust showing areas of concern and recovery throughout the estuary.
St. Louis River Interpretive Panel: Areas of Concern
St. Louis River Interpretive Panel: Areas of Concern
A Standard set of playing cards using illustrations from the catalog, designed for Frost River.
Frost River Playing Cards
Frost River Playing Cards
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.
Sara Thomson “Somewhere to Begin” CD
Sara Thomson “Somewhere to Begin” CD
A rack card cover done as a favor for my brother Gary. The LSM will unfortunately be closing down because of track issues with the CN railroad. For a completely volunteer-operated organization, they had a great run.
Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Rack Card
Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Rack Card
Airport shuttle bus graphics.
EZ-Airpark Bus
EZ-Airpark Bus