Digital

CSO’s Symphony Center

CSO Concert Hall Interior

The home of the world renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra is called Orchestra Hall, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Randal Birkey was commissioned to produce a series of architectural illustrations of the Orchestra Hall renovation project called “Symphony Center,” a new combined complex housing the auditorium, practice rooms, backstage production and staging areas, and the headquarter [...]

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Redfearn Development Streetscape

Redfearn Streetscape

A graphic designer from the Marietta, South Carolina area contacted Randal in 2003 through this portfolio website and inquired about developing a streetscape illustration to be used in promoting a residential housing development. Randal worked with the designer and the photo resources provided by the developers and architects to create this illustration intended to communicate [...]

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City Hall Floor Plan

City Hall Floor Plan - thumbnail

On the Sustainable City project mentioned below, a close up floor plan of City Hall was required to illustrate how a municipality need to allocate political resources and energy toward building a more sustainable community. Randal did a floor plan of a typical City hall building to illustrate the office space dedicated to a city [...]

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Steel Company Trade Ads

Steel Company Trade Ad Illustration

CLIENT Hubbell Steel Franklin Park, Illinois OBJECTIVE A Chicago area steel distributor required conceptual images for a series of trade ads. SOLUTION Working with a designer, Randal Birkey created a series of conceptual images in a digital watercolor style using Fractal Painter on a Macintosh, using a Wacom Tablet. The images were delivered in formats [...]

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American Invsco – Delaware Place – Chicago, Illinois

Delaware Place Chicago

OBJECTIVE A leading US condominium developer, American Invsco, required a marketing map and new condo building illustration of a new development in Chicago called Delaware Place. SOLUTION Randal Birkey created a street level detail map of the neighborhood around the development, highlighting amenities and proximity to  shopping, recreation and transportation. Randal also created a street [...]

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Nuclear Reactor Cutaway Illustration

Nuclear Reactor Core

Randal Birkey was contracted by Boston Edison, a Massachusetts utility company, to complete a series of technical illustrations for a public relations brochure. This image is a nuclear reactor core, with the sides shown cutaway to reveal the rods inside. The illustration was done using Fractal Painter software on a Macintosh computer, and a Wacom [...]

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Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" Adapted Illustration

“Vitruvian man, a figure study by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1509) illustrating the proportional canon laid down by the Classical Roman architect Vitruvius; in the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice.” — Encyclopaedia Britannica This is Randal Birkey’s simplified and adapted illustrated version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” for use on a potential logo design [...]

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Conceptual Globe Line Illustration Series

A business parable was written by a client of Randal Birkey’s in the 1980′s. Randal sketched a series of globes in various circumstances to visually illustrate the story. The story and illustrations were used in a brochure promoting the client’s design firm and their capabilities in helping their customers with change.

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Rand McNally CityFlash Maps

Boston Vicinity Map

OBJECTIVE As the recognized premier global map company, Rand McNally was exploring the possible transition from traditional cartography techniques to digital map production in the late 1980′s. A new product line called “CityFlash” maps were to be their first test map products (in partnership with Hallwag in Germany) produced entirely on standard desktop computers using [...]

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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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