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Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Randal was commissioned by Rich Nickel Design to create an aerial perspective cutaway illustration of a client printing facility. The client was Quantum Graphics, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois.  Randal first worked from architectural blueprint drawings to construct a 3D perspective wireframe of the building and the interior components that were to be revealed in [...]

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Shands Healthcare Campus Map and Floor Plans

Shands Healthcare Campus Map

Randal was contacted through his new web design firm by Shands Healthcare in Gainsville, Florida. This organization is affiliated with the University of Florida, and located near its medical research facility. Shands has recently completed the construction of a new cancer hospital and needed to add some new floor plans and campus map illustrations to [...]

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Michigan Avenue National Bank Aerial Map

Michigan Avenue National Bank Aerial Map

Randal created this illustration for VSA Partners, to appear in an annual report for their client, the Michigan Avenue National Bank, located in Chicago, Illinois. It must have been sometime in the 1980’s. The original art was pen and ink line work, with watercolor and color pencil washes on illustration board.

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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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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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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 when [...]

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Atlanta Olympics Aerial Map for Kodak

Atlanta Olympics Aerial Map for Kodak by Randal Birkey-thumbnail

Kodak was a sponsor of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. They wanted to give visitors a handy map of places to visit in the Atlanta area. Randal created this forced aerial perspective map to highlight a number of sites and locations.

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Memphis Arts Council Map

Memphis Arts Council Map - by Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal Birkey was contracted by the Memphis Arts Council in the 1980’s to create a fun map for use in a promotional poster. The map was intended to highlight a number of locations in the city where arts related activities and events were being promoted. Randal worked from maps, drawings and aerial photo references of [...]

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Atlantic City, New Jersey, Map Illustration

Map of Atlantic City, New Jersey © Randal Birkey

This preliminary city map was illustrated in Adobe Illustrator by Randal Birkey and intended for use to sell advertising to the businesses in that city. It featured all the major casinos, and shopping spots as a means to attract additional businesses to advertise on the map. Each new business would have their building and location [...]

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Bethesda Maryland Map

Bethesda, Maryland City Map

The ad agency for a Maryland based real estate developer contacted Randal Birkey as the result of a web search. The agency required a map of the downtown area of Bethesda, Maryland, on which to locate many area amenities for a print brochure on a proposed new high-rise condominium project.
Randal created this digital watercolor map [...]

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