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Friday, January 2, 2015

Data and Goliath

This was another fun job done with Bil Cullen of Communication Design Inc. for CFA magazine. Since I felt so strong about the concept for this story, initially I only did one sketch, crossed my fingers and hoped everyone agreed. Luckily for me, they did. It was for an interview with Cyber Security Expert, Bruce Schneier. It deals with what large companies must do to be resilient and deal with protecting their financial data and how to respond to attacks.

Once I got the go ahead I tightened it up and re-sent it for further assesment.

After everyone had a chance to reveiw it and signed off on it I inked it in.

After that it was on to the colors, which maybe the most enjoyable stage. I used Kyle T. Webster's digital brushes, which if you haven't used yet, I can't recommend highly enough.

Here it is in it's printed (Digital Magazine) form, thanks for taking a look.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Who Knew?

It was an unexpected surprise, in a good way, to find myself included by designer, director, advertising-branding guy Jonathan Goldberg from A For Adventure, in this group of local artist's-designers-illustrators. It was for some work I did for Kathy Harvey, then owner-operator of World of Mirth.

Folks like Ed Vasaio (OK, Ed's a restauranteur and amazing chef with a highly developed sense of aestheistics, a designer of sorts), Bob Gorman, Cabell Harris and David Waraksa. Jon has designated us as "Our Top 5 Richmond Brands (We Had Nothing To Do With)".

I've never considered myself a designer or branding guy and many of my colleagues might agree. That being said I'm honored and flattered Jon thought to include me in this group.

Full disclosure, I did some cover work for Punchline back in the late 90's early2000's when Jon was the A. D. and Pete Humes was the editor-publisher. They were both great to work with.

Thanks Jon, I still owe you a lunch.