This was my first 4 color business card, created back in the 1980’s, when I relocated my studio from my home in Oak Park, to a studio space in Chicago, on North Wells Street, just south of Chicago Avenue. This illustration was done on yellow tracing paper, using...
Randal Birkey was contracted by a Chicago area architectural design firm to create an illustration of one of their branch bank designs to present to their customer. Randal worked from the architect’s scale blueprint drawings to create this perspective view. Once...
During the 1980’s when I was doing a lot of freelance architectural rendering and illustration work, I was asked by Roula Architects, Chicago, Illinois, to do a rendering of a proposed redesign of an entire city block in the Greektown area of Chicago. Working from the...
On the Home Depot Sustainable City project, a close-up floor plan of City Hall was required to illustrate how a municipality needs to allocate political resources and energy toward building a more sustainable community. Randal did this floor plan of a typical city...
Through a web search, Randal was contacted by Idea Engineering out in Santa Barbara, California about doing a map for their client, the Home Depot Foundation. Through email communication, a project scope, fee and timeline were established. The objective of the project...
