Digital

Line Art

Over the years, Randal Birkey has created hundreds of line art drawings in pen and ink style using actual pen and ink in the early days, then graduating to digital pen and ink using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel (Fractal) Painter. These are just some of the many line illustrations done over [...]

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MetLife Asset Transfer Kit Tower Illustration

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Randal Birkey created this Adobe Illustrator vector-based illustration of a high-rise tower building for use on the cover of a MetLife Asset Transfer Kit, through a New York City ad agency. This style of architectural illustration is called an axonometric. The footprint of the building is drawn to scale and proportion (width and depth). The [...]

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Office Building Lobby

Office Building Lobby

Randal did this commercial office building interior original illustration using color pencil on cold-press illustration board. He then converted the illustration to a digital “watercolor” version using Adobe Photoshop filters.

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Shands Healthcare Campus Map and Floor Plans

Shands Healthcare Campus Map

Randal was contacted through his new web design firm by Shands Healthcare in Gainsville, Florida. This organization is affiliated with the University of Florida, and located near its medical research facility. Shands has recently completed the construction of a new cancer hospital and needed to add some new floor plans and campus map illustrations to [...]

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The Sustainable City Update

Sustainable City Map

The Home Depot Foundation has completed the updated Sustainable Cities Institute website which I wrote about in a previous post, and can now be found online here. Randal Birkey created the base map illustration that the interactive Flash application is structured around. Randal also created the site plan for the City Hall section of the application. [...]

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Bicycle Racers

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Randal did this illustration as a conversion from a photo he took at the bicycle racing velodrome in Northbrook, Illinois back in the 80′s when he was doing illustration and design work for Schwinn.

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Maggiano’s Restaurant

Maggiano's Restaurant

I recently had a meeting at my office with food catered in by Maggiano’s… an Italian Restaurant in the Chicago area. It reminded me that I did some illustration work for the parent company, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE), back in the 1990′s. Here is one such grayscale line and wash illustration done digitally in [...]

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Merry Christmas in 1994

Northwestern Medical Center Christmas Card

Randal has been asked to do many Christmas card illustrations over the years for Northwestern University. Most of them have featured one of their buildings with some kind of Christmas ornamentation added for the holiday spirit. This illustration features the entrance to a building on the Chicago medical campus located at 300 E. Superior in [...]

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San Francisco CityFlash Street Map

San Francisco 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 Macintosh FX, CX and CI computers running Adobe Illustrator [...]

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Chicago CityFlash Street Map

Chicago CityFlash Street Map

This Street Map of Chicago was produced by Randal Birkey and his team as a part of an entire new map product line for Rand McNally in 1989. This was the first product line offered by a partnership of Rand McNally and Hallwag, called CityFlash Maps, produced completely digitally on desktop computers comprised of Apple [...]

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