A Home is a Castle This pen and ink illustration of a house casting a shadow in the shape of a castle was created for a newspaper ad. ← Aerial Map of Charleston, S.C. A House in the Woods...
1997 Black Book Ad Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1997 Black Book. It features: Pharmaceutical Product Logo Globe – Product Illustration Retouched and digitally altered 5 dollar bill with 2 Abe Lincoln’s Close-up diagram of a...
“The Item Catalog” for Caterpillar, Inc. Caterpillar, Inc. desired to explore moving a portion of their extensive parts catalog from a paper only, to an interactive CD-ROM computer-based solution back in the early 1990’s. Randal Birkey worked with Lou Morelli in...
Ameritech “Signals” Magazine Randal did this vector digital illustration in Adobe Illustrator for Ameritech’s “Signals” magazine in the 1980’s. It demonstrates how their wireless technology can penetrate walls and windows in...
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Map Illustration This preliminary city map was illustrated in Adobe Illustrator by Randal Birkey and intended for use to sell advertising to the businesses in that city. It featured all the major casinos, and shopping spots as a means to...
Ameritech Mobile Paging Services Coverage Map Ameritech Mobile and Ameritech Paging were major wireless carriers headquartered in Chicago during the 1980’s as the cellular-mobile-paging market was in its infancy. These firms were an outgrowth and result of the...
3D Perspective Wireframes Randal purchased his first Macintosh computer in 1996 after seeing a simple 3D wireframe software running on one at a trade show. He realized how much time could be saved by building his 3D perspectives on a computer, rather than by the...
Base Maps OBJECTIVE To create a number of Chicago area base maps in Adobe Illustrator (Postscript – vector) format, to enable a wide range of customization and personalization by RANDAL BIRKEY clients. SOLUTION Randal Birkey has created a number of such base...
Underwriter Laboratories and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition The world renowned Underwriter Laboratories (UL) of product safety testing and standards fame, contracted Randal Birkey to create an illustration out of an old historical print depicting a scene...
Nuclear Reactor Cutaway Illustration Randal Birkey was contracted by Boston Edison, a Massachusetts utility company, to complete a series of technical illustrations for a public relations brochure. This image is a nuclear reactor core, with the sides shown cutaway to...
Da Vinci’s "Vitruvian Man" Adapted Illustration “Vitruvian man, a figure study by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1509) illustrating the proportional canon laid down by the Classical Roman architect Vitruvius; in the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice.”...
