aerial perspective

Cushing Academy Campus Aerial Perspective Map

Cushing Academy is a private coeducational secondary school founded in 1865, and located in Ashburnham, MA. They have partnered with a design firm called Corey, McPherson, Nash to redesign their viewbook. Through a web based search, CMN contacted Randal Birkey Illustration and contracted for a new Campus Map to be produced both for the school viewbook [...]

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hall Aerial Map Perspective

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hall Aerial Perspective and Cutaway

Randal Birkey was commissioned to produce a series of architectural illustrations of the renovation project of “Symphony Center,” the home of the world renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra Hall, as it is also known, was undergoing an extensive renovation, as well as being connected to another building around the corner from Michigan Avenue. Together, this [...]

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Greektown Aerial Perspective

Greektown Aerial Perspective

I love Greek food, culture, architecture and language! Why? Perhaps because I spent a summer there in 1980 doing a short-term mission project for Greater Europe Mission. I made some great friendships, some of which have lasted to this day. I’d love to go back for a visit with my wife someday! During the 1980’s [...]

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Wheaton College Campus Aerial View

Wheaton College Campus Aerial View - © Randal Birkey

Randal did his first map for Wheaton College through Rich Nickel Design in the early 1980′s. Also contributing to the project as a writer was Amy Wolgemuth. This original art was done by hand at 20 x 30 inches in size on hot press illustration board. The line art was done with very thin Rapidograph [...]

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The Gift Fair Atlanta Map Illustration

Atlanta Gift Fair - Aerial Perspective

The Gift Fair is a yearly trade event at the AmericasMart in Atlanta, Georgia featuring specialty gifts and wares from around the world. The convention promoters required a map for show attenders to help orient them to the area, in a user-friendly aerial perspective view. Randal Birkey was commissioned to produce this digital watercolor aerial [...]

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Belhaven College

Belhaven College Campus Location Map

Aerial Map Illustration Based upon a web search and other aerial map samples posted online, Belhaven College contacted Randal Birkey to create a custom map featuring their various campus locations in: Memphis, Tennessee, Orlando, Florida, Houston, Texas, and Jackson, Mississippi. To help give the map a sense of orientation and scale, stylized skylines of Seattle, [...]

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Emmanuel College Campus Map

Emmanuel College Campus Map

Randal created the first aerial perspective campus map for Emmanuel College, located in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2006. The first version is posted here as it appeared in the 1996 Viewbook on pages 58-59: One nice thing about digital line and watercolor illustration produced this way, is that later changes and updates can be much more [...]

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