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Stonehenge, England

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Randal did a series of ancient structure illustration for a textbook publisher in the 1980’s. The series included this wax pencil on croquil board line art illustration of Stonehenge, England.
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Oak Park Township Offices

Oak Park Township Offices

Randal lives in Oak Park, Illinois, home of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Kroc and many other famous Americans. The local Oak Park Township community officials contacted Randal in the 1980’s to do an illustration of their new offices at 108 S. Oak Park Avenue. The line drawing below was the result. It has [...]

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Deering Library

Northwestern University - Deering Library

This is a line drawing of the Gothic style Deering Library on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It was done by Randal for the school to be used on note pads and other printed materials.

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Bicycle Racers

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Randal did this illustration as a conversion from a photo he took at the bicycle racing velodrome in Northbrook, Illinois back in the 80’s when he was doing illustration and design work for Schwinn.

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Tugboat Isometric Cutaway

Tugboat Isometric Cutaway Line Drawing

Randal Birkey completed this isometric line drawing of a tugboat as a part of a series of illustrations for a ship and barge manufacturing company. This cutaway reveals the bulkheads and inner structure of the tugboat.

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Branch Bank Illustration

Branch Bank Architectural Illustration

Randal Birkey was contracted by a Chicago area architectural design firm to create an illustration of one of their branch bank designs to present to their customer.
Randal worked from the architect’s scale blueprint drawings to create this perspective view. Once the view was approved, it was rendered in a pen and ink stipple style using [...]

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Gas Research Institute Conference Room

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Randal was contracted by the Gas Research Institute in 1997 to illustrate a typical business scene of two business people communicating in a board room, for use in one of their print publications. Randal chose to place the people in front of a massive conference room window in silhouette, with the window light reflecting off [...]

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Ameritech Cellular Plan Options

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This cartoon style illustration was done for Ameritech Mobile Communications during the 1980’s. It was used in printed brochures that explained the various options and plans available back then for “cellular” communications. The target audience was business and commercial use. Notice how big the cell phones were back then and the clunky design compared to [...]

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Stipple Style Site Plan

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Randal did many illustrations using a “stipple” ink line style in the early 1980’s before the Macintosh computer came along and changed the way business and print communications were done… the so-called “desktop publishing” revolution. This is an example of a real estate development site plan done by hand in stipple style, primarily because the [...]

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Wheaton College Campus Map

Wheaton College Campus Map - © Randal Birkey

Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, has recruited Randal on several occasions to create or update various campus maps. This is an example of a mechanical or vector line art version created in Adobe Illustrator. This style of map is very easy to update and make changes to because of the vector nature of Postscript, the [...]

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