Concept Car Description A vector-based concept car illustration by the illustrator, just for fun. The Medium This illustration was done in Adobe Illustrator on a Mac. ← Minneapolis Magazine...
1997 Black Book Ad Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1997 Black Book. It features: Pharmaceutical Product Logo Globe – Product Illustration Retouched and digitally altered 5 dollar bill with 2 Abe Lincoln’s Close-up diagram of a...
1998 Black Book Ad Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1998 Black Book. It features: A series of vector line art icons A Nuclear Fission Reactor Core Vessel An Atomic Level Fission Nuclear Reaction Diagram A Medical Doctor Digital Vector...
“The Item Catalog” for Caterpillar, Inc. Caterpillar, Inc. desired to explore moving a portion of their extensive parts catalog from a paper only, to an interactive CD-ROM computer-based solution back in the early 1990’s. Randal Birkey worked with Lou Morelli in...
Ameritech “Signals” Magazine Randal did this vector digital illustration in Adobe Illustrator for Ameritech’s “Signals” magazine in the 1980’s. It demonstrates how their wireless technology can penetrate walls and windows in...
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Map Illustration This preliminary city map was illustrated in Adobe Illustrator by Randal Birkey and intended for use to sell advertising to the businesses in that city. It featured all the major casinos, and shopping spots as a means to...
Ameritech Mobile Paging Services Coverage Map Ameritech Mobile and Ameritech Paging were major wireless carriers headquartered in Chicago during the 1980’s as the cellular-mobile-paging market was in its infancy. These firms were an outgrowth and result of the...
3D Perspective Wireframes Randal purchased his first Macintosh computer in 1996 after seeing a simple 3D wireframe software running on one at a trade show. He realized how much time could be saved by building his 3D perspectives on a computer, rather than by the...
US Swine Flu Map Animation The team at Headstand Media produced a US Swine Flu Map Animation which was online at http://www.swine-flu-map-animation.com This tool was used on a daily basis to track the spread of the disease over time from state to state in a visual and...
Chicago Bears Stadium Rendered Elevation In the 1980’s, Randal Birkey was commissioned to assist in the production of large 40″ x 60″ presentation boards of a proposed architectural design for a new Chicago Bears stadium competition. The architect...
Rand McNally CityFlash Maps 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 1980s. A new map product line called...
Exelon Corporate Communications 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,...