Design of vehicle wraps, signs, conference displays, banners

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

This is about revising someone else’s illustration and layout. NOAA created the figures and the info, but it was for a very wide horizontal layout. Minnesota Sea Grant —in part funded by NOAA — wanted to use the art and information in a sidebar(vertical, of course) and I was tasked with making it fit. Here’s the original:

http://www.weather.gov/lsx/windchillbriefing

Revised NOAA Wind Chill Diagram

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

Lake Avenue Café Rosé Wine Tasting invitation

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

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

Grandma’s Marathon T-Shirt

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

Men as Peacemakers Poster

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”

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

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

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

Hallett Locomotive

Done many years ago for their 1997 Viewbook. A map like this is as much a design project as an illustration.

Northland College map

A Standard set of playing cards using illustrations from the catalog, designed for Frost River.

Frost River Playing Cards

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”

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

Airport shuttle bus graphics.

EZ-Airpark Bus

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)

Boone County Treasure Hunt

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

Banners for their conference booths.

Insight Environmental Banners

Based on a photo of our house, I threw this together for a Christmas card in 2013. Great snow year!

Christmas Bungalow

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

Miscellaneous Design