From the category archives:

Graphs Charts Diagrams

Treehouse

Treehouse

Randal did this watercolor illustration of a treehouse to fit a layout designed by an educational textbook publisher.

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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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1998 Black Book Ad

1998 Black Book Ad

Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1998 Black Book.
It features:

A series of vector line art icons
A Nuclear Fission Reactor Core Vessel
An Atomic Level Fission Nuclear Reaction Diagram
A Medical Doctor Digital Vector Illustration
Youth Science Fair Project
Automotive Engine Turbocharger See-Through Cutaway
A Harris Branch Bank Architectural Line Illustration

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Ameritech “Signals” Magazine

Ameritech Signals Magazine Diagram

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 buildings giving customers better cell signal reception.

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Manufacturing Conveyor System

Conveyor System

This is one of the earliest line illustrations Randal did after starting his freelance career in 1980. A client needed a simple line diagram of a manufacturing process to use in a printed company communication brochure. Randal worked from photo references to create this line art illustration. He worked with Rapidograph ink pens on smooth [...]

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HALAN Diagram

HALAN Diagram

Computer Network Diagram
The Houston Area Library Association required a simple visual diagram to communicate how their library system would be upgraded an connected via emerging Internet based technologies. This diagram was developed by Randal Birkey in 1998 and created using Adobe Illustrator software on an Apple Macintosh computer using a Wacom tablet. This vector art [...]

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Exploded View Diagram

Exploded View of Engine Cylinder Head

Exploded View Diagram of Automotive Engine Head
Exploded view diagrams are very useful for communicating technical information is an easy to understand manner. They show various parts and pieces of a manufactured item or product in a “pulled apart” manner, with lines and visual aids to help the viewer understand where each part fits, and sometimes [...]

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Whimsical 3D Graph

Warped Graph

Ketchum Advertising
Chicago, Illinois
Randal Birkey proposed this whimsical 3D style of bar graph to a Chicago ad agency as part of a range of stylistic approaches to making charts and graphs more visually inetresting and appealing.
This work was done in Adobe Illustrator.

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Brinson Partners Annual Report Graphs

Brinson Partners Annual Report Graph

Brinson Partners, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
OBJECTIVE
The ad agency for Brinson Partners required a new approach to viewing typically boring financial graphs for an annual report.
SOLUTION
Randal Birkey created 3D versions of the graphs to increase visual interest to the layout and design of the report. The files were created and delivered in Adobe Illustrator format.

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ASP.NET Architecture Diagram

Network Diagram

Seems like I am always making these little sketches to show people I am talking with, some of the ideas and concepts behind the type of websites we build at BIRKEY.COM. I made this sketch recently when explaining the difference between a typical classic Microsoft .ASP/SQL Server website architecture, and one that incorporates the newer [...]

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