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Digital

Watercolor Clown Icon

Watercolor Puppet Clown

Randal did this watercolor illustration as a part of the Memphis Arts Council Map project. This is a clown hand puppet that was used as an icon to designate comedy clubs and venues on the Memphis Arts Map. It was done in Fractal Painter software on a Mac, using a Wacom stylus and tablet.

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1997 Black Book Ad

1997-Chicago-Creative-Sourcebook

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 chain product used in a road grader
Watercolor boot
Watercolor tractor
Nascar line drawing sketch
How to measure for a swimsuit diagram
3D clock tower projecting from a [...]

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Ocean Cargo Insurance

Kemper Ocean Cargo Insurance

This digital watercolor illustration was done for Kemper Insurance, to illustrate the cover of a brochure on their Ocean Cargo Insurance products. The idea was that their insurance is a safety net for shipping cargo overseas.

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Cesario Home Builders

Cesario Builders

Cesario Builders, a custom home builder located in Warrenville, Illinois, required a line illustration of their new Windemere model home for sales and marketing brochures and newspaper advertising.
To complete this project, Randal Birkey first created a 3D wireframe model of the home, based upon the builder’s blueprint drawings. Once the wireframe viewpoint was approved, the [...]

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“The Item Catalog” for Caterpillar, Inc.

The Item Catalog

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 producing an interactive CD-ROM demo for Caterpillar, Inc. to evaluate. The graphics were done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, then [...]

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Historic Jamestowne Aerial Perspective

Historic Jamestowne Aerial Perspective

Randal Birkey created this aerial perspective of the archaelogical site at Jamestowne, Virginia, located in the Colonial Historic National Park. The image was used in a textbook for children studying this first English settlement in the New World.
Read more about it here: Historic Jamestowne
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City Hall Floor Plan

City Hall Floor Plan - thumbnail

On the Sustainable City project mentioned below, a close up floor plan of City Hall was required to illustrate how a municipality need to allocate political resources and energy toward building a more sustainable community. Randal did a floor plan of a typical City hall building to illustrate the office space dedicated to a city [...]

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The Sustainable City Map for the Home Depot Foundation

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Through a web search, Randal was contacted by Idea Engineering out in Santa Barbara, California about doing a map for their client, the Home Depot Foundation. Through email communication, a project scope, fee and timeline was established. The objective of the project was to create a generic city map that could be used on a [...]

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