Tulip Festival

Creative Musing

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Tulip Festival
I submitted these minimalist tulip illustrations to the Tulip Time poster competition, but they didn’t place. So, I repurposed them into mockups for the Tulip Festival at Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, Netherlands.

Artwork Statement: Inspired by the tulip’s form, this series of minimalistic illustrations captures its beauty through three life stages: Emerge, Unveil, and Reveal. Each phase captures the tulip’s transformation using the simplicity of negative space to frame its contours. The reduction of detail allows the viewer to focus on the essence of the tulip’s appearance, revealing how it unfolds over time. Through this work, I seek to emphasize the tulip’s beauty and timeless form. The three posters can be evaluated as a series or individually considered.

 

Crayola Crayons Poster

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Crayola Crayons Poster
During my childhood, one of the highlights preparing for the first day of school was going school shopping and selecting a brand new box of crayons. I recall carefully unwrapping the box, ensuring not to tear the packaging and being greeted by its unique waxy scent. These illustrated posters are a tribute to this moment and to all who remember the scent and the joy of creating coloring masterpieces. The left poster is a 24 pack of Crayola Crayons with a Walmart price tag and the right poster is the unboxed pack of Crayola Crayons.

 

  • Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a license from Crayola to sell these vibrant illustrative posters.

Graphis, Designers for Peace – Posters

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Graphis, Designers for Peace – Posters
I submitted a "Designers for Peace" poster series (A.K.A. Ukraine War Series) for the Graphis poster competition. It received an Honorable Mention. This series began as a personal project sparked by Russia's unprovoked war on Ukraine. My aim with this project was to capture a powerful, somber, and raw portrayal of the global emotional response to the conflict.

 

  • Congratulations! Your excellent poster design has been chosen as an Honorable Mention in our international Designers for Peace competition.

    — B. Martin Pedersen, Creative Director & Publisher

ReVox – Poster

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ReVox – Poster
I’ve always had an affinity for vintage electronics, especially buttons, knobs, and sliders. The illustration is a ReVox Studer 700 Reel-To-Reel Tape Recorder⁠, designed, engineered, and manufactured in Switzerland in 1973.

 

Unite & Vote – Poster

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Unite & Vote – Poster
In addition to offering strategic design communication solutions for my clients, I also create illustrations, design posters, and sell them on my shop page. A poster from my collection is currently en route to a fortunate recipient. If you're seeking distinctive illustrative posters to adorn your empty walls, explore my shop page. Every poster is carefully curated, illustrated, and designed by me, then printed locally at Mercury Head Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Each piece is meticulously printed on 100% cotton rag fine art paper using archival inks for lasting quality.

 

Fulton Street Farmers Market – Poster

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Fulton Street Farmers Market – Poster
An illustration I have been working on the last few weeks is finally finished. Fresh fruit, friendly farmers, and artists provide a diverse, inclusive, vital, and vibrant community marketplace that offers high-quality, locally grown, farm-fresh products.

 

Goodbye 2020 – Poster

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Goodbye 2020 – Poster
A poster designed to say goodbye to 2020. It’s was a colorful and topsy-turvy year and I’m glad that it’s over. Perhaps we should celebrate its end—Goodbye, Au revoir. Adiós, 잘가 (Jalga).

 

  • This poster is available for purchase in my shop.

Stayhome Friends – Posters

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Stayhome Friends – Posters
Amidst the U.S. stay-at-home mandate, I crafted a series of playful illustrations, each carrying messages specifically designed for the stay-at-home orders. These illustrations served not only to entertain but also to reinforce the importance of staying home during this time.

 

United & Vote – Poster & Tee

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United & Vote – Poster & Tee
“If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.” This quote by Pat Mitchel reminds us of our obligation as U.S. citizens to vote for our future. Absorb these words, take action, register and head to the polls when you are called on each election day. Vote!

 

  • Unite & Vote Poster is available for purchase in my shop. Unite & Vote Tee is available for purchase on Cotton Bureau. All Cotton Bureau apparel comes in a variety of clothing types, styles, fits, sizes, materials, and colors.

MYD Studio – Architectural Styles Poster

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MYD Studio – Architectural Styles Poster
My poster was bought, and the customer sent me a photo along with this friendly note from Lauren Moss, purchaser and owner of MYD Studio, “Framed minimally and placed on the ideal wall space, this Architectural Styles poster is the latest addition to our studio storefront, serving as a beautiful and fitting source of graphic inspiration.”

 

  • Architectural Styles poster is available for purchase in my shop.

Fultonwood Type Foundry Poster

Client Project + Product

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Fultonwood Type Foundry Poster
A small West Michigan type foundry, founded by Zac Freeland, a young enthusiastic graphic and type designer. He now is works for the Detroit Red Wings & Detroit Tigers as a graphic designer. Dream job!

I collaborated with Fultonwood Type Foundry to create an illustrative story highlighting their design process and homage to traditional typeface tools, echoing the stylistic elements of typefaces they craft.

 

  • Fultonwood Type Foundry
    Independent Typography Studio

  • + Graphic Design
    + Illustration

  • MKN Design Team:
    + Michael Nÿkamp, Design Director

    Peopledesign Stakeholder:
    + Zac Freeland, Founder & Type Designer

  • This poster is available for purchase in my shop.

Suburban Rooftops Poster

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Suburban Rooftops Poster
A cluttered illustrative representation of endless America’s suburban rooftops.

 

  • Suburban Rooftops print is available for purchase in my shop.

Illustration Society

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Illustration Society
I contributed several limited edition screen prints from the Citizen Project, specifically the poster Thirteen Stripes, Fifty Stars, to the Illustration Society, Silent Auction (organized by Kendall College of Art and Design). The proceeds will support Kendall’s illustration program and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.

 

  • Thirteen Stripes, Fifty Stars are limited edition screen prints, they are available for purchase in my shop.

  • Read an article about the Citizen Project by Emily Pots from Against The Grain.