Category Archives: Digital Illustration

Boston Vicinity Map

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Boston Vicinity CityFlash Map

Boston Vicinity CityFlash Map for Rand McNally

Randal Birkey created this Boston Vicinity Map as a part of an entire new map product line for Rand McNally in 1989. This product series called CityFlash Maps was the first product line offered by Rand McNally and European partner Hallwag, produced completely digitally on desktop computers. Randal and his team used Apple Macintosh FX and CX computers running then current versions of Aldus Freehand and Adobe Illustrator.

The digital vector Postscript files were supplied to Rand McNally’s printer, and converted to 4-color process film (CMYK) and plates, then used for 4-color offset printing.

For each city, Randal and his team produced additional maps including street level detail maps including points of interest, public transportation maps, and shopping area maps.

5 US cities were completed as a part of the CityFlash product project: Chicago, New York, Boston, San Fransisco and Washington, D.C.

Glass Hand and Globe for IGA

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This is another illustration I did for IGA back in the early 1990′s using Fractal Painter software. It is a digital illustration in pencil style of a glass award trophy that IGA gave away at an international event, of a human hand holding a globe. The IGA logo is reflected in the base of the glass.

Glass Hand and Globe for IGA

Glass Hand and Globe for IGA

1997 Black Book Ad

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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 2D blueprint
  • 2 whimsical vector art graphs
1997 Black Book Ad

1997 Black Book Ad

Cesario Home Builders

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Cesario Builders - Windemere Home Illustration

Cesario Builders - Windemere Home Illustration

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 linework was placed in a typical residential lot setting using lansdscaping and construction material information as supplied by the builder. The final art was developed as a digital illustration in Adobe Photoshop and delivered via email to the client.

“The Item Catalog” for Caterpillar, Inc.

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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 moved into Macromedia Director for sequencing and interactivity programming. Morelli provided the programming for the “hooks” into the parts database.

The Item Catalog - Opening Screen

The Item Catalog - Opening Screen

The Item Catalog - Main Menu Screen

The Item Catalog - Main Menu Screen

Historic Jamestowne Aerial Perspective

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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.

Historic Jamestowne Site

Historic Jamestowne Site

Read more about it here: Historic Jamestowne


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