corporate communication

This is Amsted

This is Amsted

Randal Birkey was asked to create a series of illustrations for a corporate communication piece called “This is Amsted.” The illustrations depicted the main activities of each division of a large manufacturing company located in Chicago, named Amsted Industries. At the time, the divisions were named: American Steel Foundries Baltimore Aircoil Company Burgess-Norton Mfg. Co. [...]

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IGA Hometown

IGA Hometown Web Screen

Randal created this “Hometown IGA” illustration for IGA International for use on the home page of their website in 1995. The image was placed into the HTML of the web page and an “image map” technique used to create links to other pages on the company website. This was one of the earliest projects Randal [...]

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Corporate Communications

Hewitt Woodcut

CLIENT Hewitt Associates Northbrook, Illinois OBJECTIVE A leading human resources outsourcing firm located in the Chicago area required an icon image for use in a company collateral communication piece. SOLUTION Working through a Chicago design firm, Randal Birkey created a woodcut style image depicting various forms of nature. The illustration was completed on a Macintosh [...]

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Exelon

Exelon Illustrations

Back in the 1990′s, I did a series of illustrations for a designer friend of mine, who was designing some print brochures for Exelon, the energy company. The illustrations had to communicate about business, energy, technology, manufacturing, building relationships, etc. He wanted them to be very stylized, strong, colorful and punchy. I used Adobe Illustrator [...]

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