Six Toes

I wanted to give my daughter a copy of the Chrysalids for her birthday. When I found one at the used book store I thought it had the most improper cover, which was Illustrated with an alien. She would never read it with that on it. So, I had an hour and a half to design, print, cut and fit it onto the book. I've been meaning to re-read this book as I remember it being one of my favorites in school, but suddenly I had to quickly pull out vague remembrances for me to illustrate. I loved the old orange spine so I used that as my start.  

 

Just a couple of fun quick 3 inch button designs I did for myself.

  

Zombie HAPPY

Above - A couple button and t-shirt designs for Nakfactorium.

Below - An illustration/package design for a fictional candy product. This image will appear in the 'out any moment now' publication containing an consortium of Winnipeg zombie monster-crazed talent pooled together by Nyco Rudolf. The publication is called the Winnipeg Book Of The UNDEAD. Find Nyco on Facebook for all the scoop and where to get it.  

mmmm....squishy black cherry eyeball with cherry licorice muscle.....iiiii waaaaant zom!

Thought Balloon...mmm Chocolate

I posted this already on my Visual Chew blog, but since it's new work, here it is. But it's not really new work because it's not MY original design. I was eating them when I was a kid. I just recreated the design so that I could have some of the wrappers as I couldn't find any originals out there. If anyone has any, I will trade you a fake complete bar as shown above.

 

 

Illustration for a Dream

or just my wacky in-set mind acting up on a realtime basis?

I like this meshing of story and image as one. 

More please!

 

 

Header for my SmashMonster Blog. Go see!

Table Space

Every day I have a billion things to do....or is it that I have a billion things to do and I just do as much of it as I can every day? Anyway, I was reading the morning paper and I came across an image which somehow grabbed me and made me look and look again. The squares, the color, the divisions...I saw beautiful geometric form, and thought I needed to explore this and create a piece of art. 

Normally I would have torn out the image and kept it on my desk and put it on my list of things to do. Then eventually it may have turned out to be not so important to do as I have so many other apparently important things to get done. And Like a dream that was relevant and fantastic when you first woke up and eventually fades into nothing as you go through your day.  But this time, I said, "Look Robert, you know it's not going to take you long to do it in Illustrator, so just do it now! Besides, you've been procrastinating on your real work all week now anyways, so here's your spot." That's what I said.  And this is what turned out. (above) I was pretty excited about it. Hope you like it too.

The exchange district in Winnipeg gets flooded with posters in July during The Winnipeg Fringe Festival and with all the people walking around the streets what better time to make a poster to show people where to shop for some cool novelty items. Ta Da!

 

Here is a Bag Topper package design for an educational model that shows the proportional distance of the Earth, Moon and Sun in a manner that puts you in awe of this mechanical universe and your place in it.