Branding for the Netsmart annual user conference, Connections. Marketing pieces included brand development, promotional video, daily recap videos, structural signage, website and social promotions. Creative Direction, design and video capture.

A collection of creative ads for a variety of clients throughout the years. Healthcare, travel, software/technology, and entertainment clients. Creative direction, design, and production.

1. Peace, Love and Bar-B-Que This is one poster in a series of three promoting Perceptive Software's annual Bar-B-Que contest. Custom textures, illustrations and fonts aide in giving the posters a hand-crafted and unique quality. Built in Photoshop, this poster was an award finalist at Photoshop World 2015.

2. SummerFest One in a series of three posters promoting Perceptive Software's annual family festival which included Bar-B-Que contests, a carnival for the kids (and adults) and live music. 

Client work, through Kuhn & Wittenborn Advertising, for Crown Center, a shopping and entertainment destination in Kansas City, MO. Crown Center hosts several events, exhibits, and live theater performances throughout the year requiring promotional posters, billboards, print campaigns and commercials to promote the events.

During the summer months, Crown Center would host free movies and/or concerts on Friday nights on the lawn just outside the shopping center. While the events were free, it was an opportunity to bring awareness, and shoppers, to Crown Center. Posters could be seen throughout the shopping center and surrounding blocks. Most posters also made it into newspaper ads.

With little to no visuals and content provided for these projects, creating something from nothing was usually the norm. For instance, for the Coterie Theater poster, a synopsis of the play was all that was provided. From there, it was concept, design, present, photo shoot, finalize.

1. Nerveless Nocks Stunt & Thrill Show. The client provided us with black and white 8x10 photos of the show. I picked the image of the stunt man on the twirling wheel and gave it some color, and added textures to give it a worn and aged look, including the fold lines. The inspiration for the look and design of the poster came from researching vintage circus posters and cigar boxes.

2. Free Friday Night Flicks. For this summer series we created photo shoots that represented the film being promoted that week. In this case it was Casablanca. Others included Indiana Jones, ET and Back to the Future.

3. Free Friday Night Concerts. The concept was to create a single poster and ad that promoted the free Friday night concerts at Crown Center, and especially to let people know that they were free.

4. Playing For Time. This is one example of the many posters I had the opportunity to work on for The Coterie Theatre at Crown Center. Playing for Time is a play adapted from the successful teleplay by Arthur Miller. A true story depicts Fania Fenelon's experience during World War II in the Auschwitz/Birkenau Concentration Camp, and chronicles the lives of young Jewish women prisoners who form an orchestra to play for their jailers in order to survive.

5. Tutankhamun and The Great Russian Mammoth were traveling exhibitions Crown Center brought in which were, as always, free to the public. The fun with these was creating the posters from nothing more than the title of the exhibits. Creating headlines, images and all the supporting details that bring an image together.

Dodge for a Cause is an annual charitable fund raiser for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a major charitable organization dedicated to funding type 1 diabetes research. Dodge for a Cause raised more than $210,000 for JDRF. 

The objective was simply to promote a dodge ball tournament. We could have gone with a simple flyer, but why stop there. With no budget and short time-frames, posters, t-shirts, websites, videos, radio spots and social media content were created to help promote the event each year. Here are some of my favorite campaigns.

1. Dodge with ...
As part of the competition, teams could win prizes for best team name, theme song and best team uniform, to name a few. With advertising going out to local gyms, college campuses, outdoor boards and local businesses, we wanted to appeal to everyone and not just the "athletic" types, so the idea of "Dodge how you are" combined with team uniforms, resonated with the group and grew from there. #AddyAward

2. Getting Hit Never Felt So Good

One of the challenges of getting participants to enter a dodge ball tournament is getting them over the fear of getting hit - especially in the head (accidentally, of course). What they don't realize is that these are not the hard rubber balls once used at recess, but instead are foam with a thin rubber outer shell. The idea of getting hit with one of these is a small price compared to the outcome of helping fight diabetes. So, it feels good to give, right? Even if you have to take one to the face!

3. Ready. Set. Dodge!
This was the first year we partnered with Kansas City Corporate Challenge who included Dodge Ball as an official competition in the corporate games. Having this new partner, we wanted to create posters that would resonate and bring a sense of fun or humor to the office. Ever sit across from someone in a meeting and wish you could throw a ball at them? Yea, we did too. Posters and email campaigns were distributed to all corporations participating in the Kansas City Corporate Challenge, helping drive a record number of teams wanting to participate in Dodge for a Cause.

Creation of new overview brochure, email templates (webinars, newsletter, and general communications) and landing page.

New brand development for Kinetic Club, a golf and sport fitness group. Works included a promo video to be used on social media and in the club, outer wear and web site. Creative Direction, producer, second videographer.

Sometimes you design a logo for a client, friend, or even brother-in-law, in hopes that it will later evolve into a larger part of the brand experience. Identifying colors, typography, outlining brand guidelines, the works. But sometimes it's just a logo. Either way, I have enjoyed the journey each logo design has provided and each has taught me something new that I can apply to the next. Here's a handful of those logos I've designed for my clients, past and present.