Illustrated graphics

There's more to design than simply making something look visually appealing. Design is a way to share a story by taking a big clump of information and simplifying it by visually representing the story or process. It's a time when the designer has to choose what is essential to show and what can be left out. Taking a class specifically on information graphics set the stage for learning how to convey a story or process in visual form. Here's just a few of the projects I researched and then illustrated. 

2020 GOLD ADDY: OUT-OF-HOME GUERRILLA MARKETINGIn honor of MutualBank’s 130th anniversary, this elevator wrap allowed riders to step into the scene of MutualBank’s old bank vault. Using a variety of bank vaults including the original photo of the fi…

2020 GOLD ADDY: OUT-OF-HOME GUERRILLA MARKETING

In honor of MutualBank’s 130th anniversary, this elevator wrap allowed riders to step into the scene of MutualBank’s old bank vault. Using a variety of bank vaults including the original photo of the first MutualBank vault, I was able to digitally illustrate every small detail of the vault door, entrance, and the items inside. This design looped in several pieces of Mutual’s history. A quote is featured by the founder, George Higman. The illustrated deposit box belongs to the first mortgage loan customer. The box is overflowing with MutualBank branded coins and pennies to tie into the quote. The coins and the illustrated flooring ooze onto the real elevator floor. You’ll see that some of the pennies have made their way completely onto the real floor turning into real pennies. The pennies teetering the line between illustrated and real flooring also show the divide in their appearance.

Using Illustrator, I designed this graphic to reflect what actions Cook Medical takes to ensure they are helping the environment.

This is the media title used to open up the Going Green infographic. (Featured on the Cook Medical's Urology blog)

This is another media tile that appears on the Cook Medical Urology Blog to promote how Cook's packaging is designed to be more environmentally friendly.

For this project, I had to illustrate the parts of something I wasn't familiar with. Rummaging through several images and websites, I had enough of an understanding of the internal combustion engine to illustrate the inside and out of it.

Basketball; my absolute favorite sport. This project started with interviewing a college basketball player on how to do a lay-up, followed by having a photoshoot with a model demonstrating those steps. Once I had the images I needed to capture the three main steps to a lay-up, I was able to trace them in Illustrator for this final design.

The water cycle is an informational graphic that has been illustrated several times. After finding a graphic that I found well done, I wanted to take a stab at recreating it. I used Illustrator to draw this.

I created this timeline to capture the gun control laws through the years to fit the layout of a magazine spread. I used the contrast of a black background and red and white text to create a dramatic and intense feel, as this can be somewhat a dramatic topic.