Rand McNally Streetfinder Map Cover

Rand McNally Streetfinder Map Cover

This cover illustration was done for map publisher, Rand McNally when maps were still done the old-fashioned way and printed. The cover features the Chicago area with the downtown area distorted, and area major highways and counties labeled. The finished printed book...
Godiva Chocolate Easter Gift Basket

Godiva Chocolate Easter Gift Basket

Through his New York artist rep, Randal was commissioned to illustrate this Godiva Chocolate Easter gift basket for use in a newspaper ad, by a New York City ad agency. The illustration was done by hand using a Rapid-o-graph ink pen on illustration board in a...
San Francisco CityFlash Street Map

San Francisco CityFlash Street Map

This is a detail section of a San Francisco Street Map that Randal Birkey produced for Rand McNally/Hallwag in 1989 as part of their CityFlash Map product line. This was the first Rand McNally map product produced on desktop computers. Randal and his team used Apple...
How to Measure for a Swimsuit

How to Measure for a Swimsuit

Along the same lines as the “How to Build a Better Sportshirt” illustration I did for Lands End, they also asked me to illustrate a woman’s body for a diagram on “How to Measure for a...
Engine Piston Pin Sketch

Engine Piston Pin Sketch

Randal Birkey created this quick felt tip ink line sketch showing the location of a “piston pin” in the layout of an automotive V-8...