These are just a few of my illustrations that I have permission to show or personal pieces that I feel are finished and show-worthy. I feel that a few of these are strong enough on concept to make them better than more interesting images that have little or no concept behind them. You be the judge, and if you notice a lot of diversity, that is because I am constantly reinventing my style searching for something distinctly me.

This should be an archive of Identity work that I created for people, it turns out it is more like a index of logos that aren’t in use save 3. This is unfortunate, and hints at a larger issue with the state and it’s economic growth. Setting that aside for a more personal post, there are a few identity pieces that I really like that never got to really see the light of day. Logo design is a primary job of the modern sign maker, and most businesses are more willing to set with someone who is making their sign that the person in charge of their stationary. Something about the physical location demarcated with a graphic appeals to people, and letterhead is for bills. (more…)

This was a fantastically fun job and a chance to work on a very stylish comic. I had the opportunity to put together a flash trailer for The Faceless: A Terry Sharp Story, and really liked the work of Adrian Salmon and writing by Robert Tinnell. It is very much like a 60’s spy/detective story with fantastic color and biting wit. When Bob approached me about an online comic, I was excited. When he mentioned that he would like it to be flash-animated and initially hosted on Fangoria.com, I freaked. We set some guidelines as far as how animated it would be, and tried to be by-the-panel to maintain the comic feel. I also set about lettering the frames and bringing them in as semi-transparent .pngs. As the strips go on, I was progressively more ambitious about the animated sequences. This reached near critical mass when I pulled a truck out of a panel and animated it (Day 20, 21 & 22). (more…)

I was asked to show some of my web work this week by a prospective client. I realized that most of my work has been fixing other peoples sites and I wouldn’t want to be represented by those. However, there are a few from the late 90’s and ‘01 that I think show an understanding of the web as it was…

Signs by Brother Bill - One of my responsibilities as the manager of a sign shop in Fairmont, WV was to build and maintain at a very low file weight, a business web site with examples of our work.

Best Western of Summersville, WV - One of a few Hotel sites that I designed for a family of owner/operators. This hearkens back in the heady days of 800×600 and table based design. I love that bright yellow and blue.

Sixty Dollars | The Band Web Site - Ahead of the curve, Sixty dollars the band was ready to move their press kit online to not just HTML but flash it up. I was preparing to teach flash at college level and used this site as an example of multimedia, dynamic loading and embedding javascript popups(which consequently didn’t make it to the final site).

These are a small cross section of Pre Xhtml / CSS web sites that I have built. I am in process of 3 at the moment, with more coming soon.