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Closet Maid Organization Products

Closet Maid Organization Products © Randal Birkey

Randal was contracted by an ad agency to illustrate the Closet Maid system of closet organizing products in a line art style suitable for newspaper print ad use. Randal generated a number of closet views rendered in black & white “stipple” style. This illustration method involves creating a thin ink line outline, the filling in [...]

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How to Build a Better Sportshirt

How to build a better sportshirt - Lands End

Randal did this catalog spread illustration and detail insets for Lands’ End, a catalog retailer located in Dodgeville, Wisconsin on “How to Build a Better Sportshirt.” The spread illustrated the superior way in which Lands’ End men’s sportshirts are constructed and designed.

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Wilson Sporting Goods

Wilson tennis racquet cross section

Randal was contracted by Wilson Sporting Goods to do a series of illustrations for their tennis product catalog. Each racquet in the catalog featured a cutaway illustration showing the layers and materials used in its construction. Each illustration was done by hand with pencil and color pencil on 100% cotton drafting vellum for that “techie” [...]

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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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Bank Toolbox

Toolbox

CLIENT
Cole Taylor Bank
Chicago, Illinois
OBJECTIVE
Cole Taylor Bank required an image of a toolbox to use in a conceptual ad campaign, designed to attract new commercial customers to the bank.
SOLUTION
Cole Taylor Bank contracted with Randal Birkey through his Chicago artist rep, to provide an illustration of an open toolbox on a blueprint paper background. This image was [...]

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Chicago Creative Sourcebook Ad

Sourcebook Ad

In the early 1980’s, Randal Birkey started his freelance illustration career. At that time, one of the best ways to advertise illustration and get new work, was in the Chicago Creative Sourcebook, published in Northbrook, Illinois.
Randal created this ad as his first entry into the Chicago illustration market. He used a pen and ink image [...]

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Product Illustration of Larressingle Armagnac

Larressingle Armagnac Illustration

CLIENT
New York city ad agency
OBJECTIVE
A New York ad agency required a product illustration of Larressingle Armagnac for newspaper advertising use.
SOLUTION
Through his New York artist rep, Randal Birkey was contracted to prepare a line art illustration of the Larressingle Armagnac product. The art was completed by hand in a pen and ink style and a high [...]

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Abloy Lock Technical Illustration

Abloy Lock Cutaway Technical Pencil Illustration

The Customer’s Need
The manufacturer of Abloy Locks required an illustration to reveal the unique tumbler technology used in their locks for a trade advertisement.
Randal’s Solution
Randal was contacted by the manufacturer’s ad agency in the 1980’s and contracted to create the illustration. This image is one of the working “pencils” that Randal did on his way [...]

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Mita Copier Technical Product Illustration

Mita Copier Product Illustration

Chicago is a very commercial, product-driven town when it comes to advertising and design work. Randal did this product illustration in Adobe Illustrator for an ad featuring a Mita copier. This technical line art style lends itself well to newspaper and magazine advertising reproduction, popular in the 1980’s.

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