Family Man, Art Director, good Lutheran, home brewer, and abuser of ellipses...
Skilled illustrations of Geologic Stratigraphic Crossections and Paleogeographic Maps help sell your prospects to investors.
The Oklahoma City Holiday River Parade is a large family event that takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving every year. Ships, yachts, and even Santa's jet ski parade up the Oklahoma City River to celebrate the season. The modular branding was applied to emulate the hodgepodge style of a sailor's wall.
I started a shirt company with couple of my buddies. Kyle Simmons and Eric Lyons are the two most creative people I've known. The collaborations have been very exciting. You can check everything out at The Okay See.
We wanted to do a buzz building event for when VI rebranded itself. Our goal was to make people aware that advertising as we know it was dead. We had transitioned from being strictly an ad firm to a full blown marketing firm over the last decade and changed our name. In an agency brainstorm I threw out the idea of having loads of grim reapers walking around the downtown area. This idea spitballed in to being a citywide event. We ended up having Grims around downtown, midtown, all the major highway intersections, overpasses, in malls, and so on and so forth. Needless to say... Guerrilla campaigns are a blast. Throughout the day I managed the Grims to make sure they stayed in character and covered certain sections of the downtown area. Also, I shot some video and photographed the 20+ grims around town as they handed out cards that directed people to the minisite which explained our brand change. In the afternoon I even donned the costume and tried my hand at reaping. Then it was back to the office to edit the snippets together to post on Youtube. Twitter exploded that day wanting to know more about the Grims. Someone even set up a spoof account riffing off of our event. Here is a brief log from people in my personal stream.
We are passionate about logos and branding. Its one of our specialties. The following are some national and local brands we've helped create.
The flattened medium of silkscreen separations has always been extremely enjoyable to work in. As far as design goes, it tends to be pretty low-brow. But hey. I don't care. It's fun.
There is something to be said of the emotive qualities of illustration. But hey, we're biased. A Gig Poster created for Brown Bird in El Reno. Created for a National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics event. Portrait experimentation. Audrey Hepburn Evangeline Lilly Kristen Bell Created for a motor scooter themed art show. Saints, Scientists, & Monsters created for StripesAreLame. St. Joseph, Patron Saint of Carpenters The Boondock Saints The Transfiguration of St. Paul St. Lucia, Patron Saint of the Blind Copernicus, Heliocentric Theory Tesla Stardust Dr. Jeckyll's Anti Frekyll Juice The Bride of Frankenstein
Advanced Academics is an online school that partners with school districts nationwide to create the ideal learning environment for kids. This direct mail piece was sent to the principals and administrators of our target districts leading up to the summer months to show them that their students could be getting ahead during their break with Advanced Academics. I was asked to create the exterior signage for Advanced Academic's building located in Bricktown, OKC. When my children are old enough to stroll Bricktown I will enjoy showing them this permanent piece. Over the years I've had the ability to work with some very neat non-profits in the Oklahoma City area. The DeadCenter Film Festival is always fun to be a part of. It is a cultural happening in OKC that you simply do not want to miss out on. While these poster concepts were not printed... working on the various parts of the campaign was a very exciting way to give back to the community. World Neighbors is a wonderful company that goes to third world countries and helps communities become self-sufficient through education and training. This campaign was for their "in the classroom" teaching kit. It was intended to get kids interested in overseas communities and to teach about a world very different from what they know. These pieces were my first real stab at illustration. While I still maintain some of this style, I would approach the build completely differently now. The Urban League is an equality group that help minorities strive to reach economic and social equality. The main projects I worked on were for their annual gala, which often times had a major recording artist play. One of the highlights of my career was seeing the Temptations walk out on stage wearing outfits that matched a save-the-date card I created.
This is a series of small projects. A few were created for friends and family. Some dates/names/addresses have been changed.
We designed and printed a fun shirt for the Oklahoma Craft Brewers Guild. Very tasty project.
HORROR, a piece from my art show tonight with @i_like_boring_things at @t_an_urban_teahouse from 7-9.
I’m hanging art at @t_an_urban_teahouse for my show with @i_like_boring_things! Opening tonight 7-9p.
Our newest shirt from @TheOkaySee. Available in toddler, youth, AND adult sizes on TheOkaySee.com.
My Tummy’s Rumblin’ detail shot. Adult, Youth, and Toddler sizes available on TheOkaySee.com
That’s right! “My Tummy’s Rumblin’ ” is our newest shirt from @theokaysee! Visit theOkaySee.com to order toddler, youth, and adult sizes!
#party! tank?! @i_like_boring_things @mrdylanb @deluxeok @amandagbradway @dnagalleries @theokaysee
Scifientific drawing of tigerlillies. This piece is on display at The Lobby Bar. Opening at 6pm this Thursday!
I’m excited to tell you I’m having another art show with @i_like_boring_things & @darrenisreal! Our opening is Thursday at 6pm at the Lobby Bar in the Will Rogers Theater!
This is a logo for a new Children's Psychiatry Group in Edmond. They specialize in the hardest cases with kids who've had really the hardest times, stories that make you rage and weep.
I have a feeling they will go with one of my other directions, but this one seemed the most graceful solution to me.
I liked the way the light was bouncing off the back of the screen while we were printing. We've nearly sold out of our first round of shirts, so I just doubled our next order.
It feels really good to help make an adoption a reality.
http://www.theokaysee.com/product/love-is-thicker-than-water-help-an-adoption
We wanted to create something that could raise money for families trying to adopt.
Our mission statement:
Adopt the mindset that if we try to change the world of an individual, together we might actually change the World.
For every shirt we sell we will donate the majority of our proceeds to families trying to adopt. This shirt will help Eric & Kylie Lyons bring little Joah home from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Love IS Thicker than Water.
You can help an adoption here: http://www.theokaysee.com/product/love-is-thicker-than-water-help-an-adoption
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
I wanted to create a concentric portrait featuring the planets. In my initial ignorance I thought Galileo was the scientist who originally suggested the sun as the center of our universe. After some wiki-research I discovered out that Copernicus, the Polish/Prussian/German Astronomer and Catholic clerk, was the one who founded heliocentric cosmology and Galileo, the Italian Physicist, created the telescopes that helped prove the theory.
In the time of Copernicus, astronomers noticed that the stars moved in a fixed motion but there were five 'wandering' stars that seemed to move in their own paths. The word planet is greek for 'Wandering Star.' In my illustration, I only used the planets that could be seen in Copernicus' time. You may also notice that Saturn does not have rings. They could not see the rings that have become iconic for that particular planet.
I put together a 5 minute presentation on the impending Mayan Apocalypse for IgniteOKC. These were the slides going on the background that showed how the Mayan Calendar functions.
This whole apocalypse thing comes from big date: 13.0.0.0.0 / Imagine 1999/2000, but far more significant due to the Mayans associated value of 13, and the fact that the Mayan Long Count has been running for over 5000 years.
These icons were created for a road bike companion app released in February.
The icons stand for:
Speed, Cadence, Power, Calories, Heart Rate
Distance, Temperature, Elevation, Lap, Time
The app visualizes data captured by the bikers Garmin hardware. The colors correspond to the individual graph markers.
This was created for Komorka Tech.
I picked "zombie" as my monster because they scare the hell out of me and excite me at the same time. When I was a kid I watched Romero's "Dawn of the Dead", and I remember feeling terrified and claustrophobic at the enclosing circle of the undead, and then at the same time, thinking how awesome it would be to live in a mall and kill zombies. These creatures have no other motive than to feed and move. They are the great white shark of the monster world. They come in hoards but it is still every zombie for himself. For my zombie, I wanted bright, almost neon colors for the skin. As if to exaggerate the decomposition. The detail of the skin was most important to pull of the undead look. It couldn't be smooth like a normal human being. I went with a wood-cut feature for the skin. It creates a strained, weathered look while creating great texture and depth. It adds a wrinkle and crease on every feature of the face and really exaggerates the features. What's most interesting about the undead is the jump factor they harness. When someone is bit or killed by a zombie, they're revenant time interval is different than someone else. You never know when that person will re-animate. Add this along with the slowly enclosing hoard and you have the recipe for that baddest killing machine in monster lore.
I didn't really know what monster I was drawing when I started, but I'd decided on something underwater. My composition lines ended up looking like tentacles, so I ran with it. I noticed that the dark side of the water's gradient would be a good place to add bright contrast for the focal point. The needed details were obvious, so I used an opaque hard brush. This also worked out well for the specular lighting needed to make the tentacle look slimy. Finally I detailed the closer tentacle with some 3dish looking soft brush strokes and a texture on overlay. I wanted to make sure the viewer felt a little grossed out. To give the viewer an uneasy feel perspective-wise, I emphasized the dutch angle by adding vague mountains in the background that pointed up and to the left and put the diver's boat in view. If the implied horizon and boat work properly, the viewer should feel off balance (i say if because my wife didn't notice the boat).
All done in Photoshop with my Intuos4!
Aaron Cahill
Collage
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (3 December 1886 - 26 September 1978)[1] was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy".[2]
Siegbahn was born in Örebro, Sweden. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen (magnetic field measurements). He was acting professor for Johannes Rydberg when his health was failing, and succeeded him as full professor in 1920.
Following his Ph.D., he started research on X-ray spectroscopy. This work continued when he moved to the University of Uppsala in 1923. He developed improved experimental apparatus which allowed him to make very accurate measurements of the X-ray wavelengths produced by atoms of different elements. He developed a convention for naming the different spectral lines that are characteristic to elements in X-ray spectroscopy, the Siegbahn notation. Siegbahn's precision measurements drove many developments in quantum theory and atomic physics.[3]
In 1937, Siegbahn was appointed Director of the Physics Department of the Nobel Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Siegbahn married Karin Högbom 1914. They had two children: Bo Siegbahn (1915-2008), a diplomat and politician, and Kai Siegbahn (1918-2007), a physicist, who also received the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1981, for his contribution to the development of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
He won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940. In 1944 he patented the Siegbahn pump.
Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Born in 1847, Edison would see tremendous change take place in his lifetime. He was also to be responsible for making many of those changes occur. When Edison was born, society still thought of electricity as a novelty, a fad. By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. Much of the credit for that progress goes to Edison. In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb. Besides the light bulb, Edison developed the phonograph and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and improved on Alexander Bell’s telephone. He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." In tribute to this important American, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death.
Although Herod feared John, he would not kill him because he knew John was a righteous and holy man, and he liked hearing John speak. Herodias, Herod's wife, did not share his respect for John and looked for any chance to have him killed. Herodias' chance came when her daughter Salome's dancing so pleased Herod and aroused such irrational lust in him that he promised her anything she desired. Herodias prompted her daughter to ask for the death of John the Baptist. Herod granted her wish and John was killed.
Every week now we will be creating an art portrait to coincide with with a monthly theme. To start things off, the month of March we will be creating Saints. Its going to be another fun journey this year. Stay tuned for guest artist as well. Hope you enjoy.