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Reason 2 Ride is a series of bike races that raises money for various charities. The Utah series is referred to as the “udder” (UTRR – UT Reason to Ride) so I was asked to do something that combined cows and bikes, not a common request. I decided to do a disembodied cow udder — on a bike — crossing the finish line.

Microsoft wanted a Facebook app to help students create custom avatars, based on their career skills and attributes. The avatar is built up from various stickers that get peeled off of sticker sheets and placed on the blank avatar. The logo is a briefcase with an implied “M” for Microsoft.

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A client had a personal project for me to do a portrait of Bob Marley. I took the opportunity to use the hatchy style from the trees and water towers prints, but, this time drawing it digitally as opposed to doing it in ink. Although I don’t think it necessarily looks any more digital than the others, I like how it turned out.

A local website where people can comment about why they love Portland wanted an illustration that captured some of the unique qualities of the city: the mountains, the trees, the strange bikes, beer, coffee, and the bacon donut.

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Darcy Totten wanted some new business cards for Red Paper Planes. I made a diagram to fold the card into a paper plane. A red one.

The Green Paper, a local newspaper about being nice to the environment, had me paint one of their boxes. Inspired by the children’s book, The Giving Tree, I turned the box into an abstract tree trunk.

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A fun little iPhone game that needed some graphics. The first thing was to come up with 3 colors that logically implied good, not so good, and bad. I made a few different sets of faces just to add variety: Dweebs, Monsters, Anime, and Curmudgeons.

Identity for Ciretose, an iPhone software developer. We wanted something that had a story. Since Ciretose specializes in software for Apple products, we took inspiration from the “Apple key”.

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