mike sheen

Flying With The Flu

2010-03-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

Some ads should run but never do. This was a concept we came up with for promoting getting vaccinated for protection against the H1N1 flu virus. It plays with peoples perceptions and fears and if it ran, I'm sure would have been very controversial.

Metro Paint Goes Mainstream

2010-03-12T09:59:00.000-08:00

I just got a note from Martha Koenig. When she was working for me she designed the new Metro Recycled Paint labels. Now Metro is selling their paint at Miller Paint and at Fred Meyer stores. She sent this photo showing them off an end isle display...Very exciting!

A Gift No One Wants

2009-10-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

Nobody wants to get sick with the flu! This spot reminds people to stay at home if their sick. We used the idea of the flu bug as a "gift" to convey the message. The actor who played our sicky was great! He coughed and puttered around for the whole day.

It's Alive

2009-09-08T12:32:00.001-07:00

The CK website is finally live. You can check it out at www.coateskokes.com. It took some time...maybe too much...but it's now up and running. We still have a few more things to add to it from a features and programming perspective and we'll need to keep adding fresh content. The internal response among coworkers has been great.

On The Launch Pad

2009-09-04T10:30:00.000-07:00

The new Coates Kokes website is oh so close to launching. We're working out some of the final details and hope to take it live today! Sam, Ryan and the whole creative department have been busting it lately with programming and design tweaks.

Imelda's and Louie's Twofer

2009-08-11T14:01:00.000-07:00

It seems last month Explore the Pearl neglected to place one of our ads for Imelda's. This month we're getting to run two ads to make up for this little oversight. Amos Hunter took some photos and we wrote some fun headlines to go with them. Hopefully they'll show up in this months edition!

Clean Energy Works Portland

2009-08-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

The City of Portland along with some utility sponsors are piloting a unique program, Clean Energy Works Portland. It involves selecting 500 homeowners who would like to see their home receive an energy efficiency overhaul...new windows, furnace, insulation, appliances, etc. What makes this program unique is all the costs are financed through the homeowners utility bill. This eliminates one of the biggest obstacles, money up front, that prevents homeowners from taking action. We created this direct mail piece to be sent out to potential candidates and begin the selection process.

Courtesy of the Portland Timbers

2009-08-06T08:44:00.000-07:00

We were working on some ideas for the Portland Timbers new MLS launch and one of the thoughts was to go out and pick some fights with our rivals. The Seattle Sounders was our first choice for this little customized traveling bill board.

Hartman & Forbes Website

2009-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

The long awaited Hartman & Forbes website launched today! Sam Leinen and Ryan O'Rielly have been working hard the last few weeks ironing out all the details and programming issues to make the August 1st deadline. This site is one of the most comprehensive sites we've done...lots of components and very content rich. In other words, lots of places to screw it up! It comes on the heels of a 200 plus page catalog we designed for H&F. I'm anxious to see how it'll be received by the client and interior designers who'll be using the catalog and website.

Cute Shoes

2009-07-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

The latest Willamette Week ad for Imelda's. Karl Schroeder wrote the headline and Amos Hunter provided the photography.

Adventist Helipad

2009-06-29T16:28:00.000-07:00

Adventist Medical Center's new pavilion has a cool new helipad on top of it. So naturally we needed to go up there and use it for a photo shoot location for an upcoming ad. Here's me and art director, Jay Fawcett, doing our Top Gun impersonation.

Efficiency Avenue

2009-06-29T14:55:00.000-07:00

Why should residential customers be the only ones who get rebates for energy efficiency? Now with our "Efficiency Avenue" interactive site up and running, commercial customers have a new way to access rebates and get energy and cost saving information that pertains to their business.

Who knew?

2009-06-29T10:05:00.000-07:00

There's a lot of nasty stuff that gets washed down street drains and right into our rivers and streams. Part of raising the awareness was educating the masses about what they can do to help out. That's why we created the cleanriversandstreams.org website. This interactive site is stuffed full of fun facts and tips to insure a healthier ecosystem.

Associated General Contractors

2009-06-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

A recent study by AGC revealed the average age of construction workers to be 47. Yikes, they need some young blood! So the challenge was getting young high school aged kids interested in pursuing a career in construction. Our informative and inspiring website for AGC was just the ticket. Getconstructive.com includes a video, career path options, how to get started and we're currently working on a robust interactive job posting section.

Louie's Shoes

2009-06-25T13:12:00.000-07:00

In these tough economic times it's good to know you can go back down the ladder and look as stylish as you did when you went up it. That was the inspiration behind this ad for Louie's that we created. Jim Carey pinned the line and the ad is running in Explore the Pearl magazine.

Avista Photo Shoot

2009-06-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

I was in Spokane this week working with a great photographer there named Dean Davis. This is one of the photos he took for an upcoming Avista ad we're working on.

Working Girls

2009-06-03T12:01:00.000-07:00

Nutrius makes natural product based dairy cow supplements to help maximize a dairy cows milk output. How could we not have some fun with that?

Your Little Beach Town

2009-05-31T14:09:00.000-07:00

Pacific City is one of those quaint little Oregon coast towns that remained somewhat undiscovered. We fixed that! Actually, our client did. They developed some great real estate and hospitality offerings that just couldn't be kept secret. We developed an advertising campaign that included print, direct mail, a couple of websites and a bunch of push emails. Now all of sudden Sunset Magazine and The Oregonian are writing articles on the place and it's hard to find a room. Oh well.

SeaPort Wall

2009-04-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

Not a great photo but you can see one of the media buys we used to promote SeaPort Airlines. It's cool seeing work up this big! The wall is very visible from I-5 and a lot of people have commented that they noticed it.

Fat Building

2009-04-01T12:53:00.000-07:00

Can you believe it? No photoshop trickery going on here! Photographer Jim Golden found a building that was eating too much energy and was busting at the seams. April Fools!

Oregon Community Foundation

2009-01-12T16:12:00.000-08:00

Rarely do you go into a new business presentation with spec work and end up not only winning the account but producing the pitch concepts. However, this was the case with OCF. We created this series of concepts using stock photography from Jim Erickson and the next thing you know we're producing them for real. It happened fast, but it seems like the best stuff always does.

Oregon Community Foundation cont...d

2009-01-02T16:20:00.000-08:00

Here's a few more ads we created for OCF. We also turned some of these print concepts into web ads that were hosted on local broadcast stations websites.

Special Delivery

2008-11-26T13:54:00.000-08:00

This year, we created a very special holiday card for the Port of Vancouver. Santa has a little trouble with his navigation system and has to make an emergency landing at the port. Art Director Alicia Mickes provided the art direction and cool illustrations. This e card highlights all the port's services and strengths from road, river and rail and proved to be a very amusing and charming way to get the message out.

John and Roberta

2008-11-09T10:53:00.000-08:00

Using less energy doesn't require sacrifice in life style. John and his wife Roberta are perfect examples. Real life Avista customers who have been making little changes that add up to big changes in their energy bill.

Hit the Sky Running

2008-10-13T15:48:00.000-07:00

You don't often get the chance to launch a start up airline. Faced with horrible travel options between Seattle and Portland, SeaPort airlines came onto the scene and cut travel time in half between the two cities. We used an Japanese illustrator named Otani Ryuji who created a nice, fresh look for us. In all, we created 4 illustrations that found there way into a multimedia campaign featuring a outdoor boards along the I-5 corridor, in terminal posters, magazine and newspaper print ads, web banners and electronic emails.

SeaPort Field Trip

2008-09-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

I got to take a fun trip to Seattle on SeaPort just to check out the ride. Fast, smooth and hassle free. Makes me want to get back into aviation!

Kuni Box

2008-06-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

Kuni Automotive had a fun project for us. Help them secure a smart car dealership. They were heading down to Las Vegas to meet with United Auto who was in charge of setting up dealerships for this cute little car all over America. Kuni, with car dealerships in Portland, Seattle and Denver wanted to get in the action. From an initial drawing of an idea I had, we created a box that contained a kit to build the ultimate smart car dealership. It was complete with cars, dealerships, landscape and customers. Just color them in and punch them out for easy assembly. Carrie Asby produced it with Karl Schroeder, Tyler Kongsly and Eric Stevens providing a lot of the ingredients to make it cool. The kit was sent out to key decision makers prior to the big meeting in Las Vegas. It was very well received and Kuni ended up getting 2 smart car dealerships.

Artists for the Arts

2008-06-25T11:00:00.000-07:00

I was flattered to get a call from Scott Huber and Carrie Asby asking for my participation in an ad campaign they were working on for Artists for the Arts. It was a lot of fun and all I had to do was provide the eye candy for the ad! Edis Jurcys took the photograph of me with the pouting face. I liked how the ad was laid out and hope that it was successful. Fortunately, this campaign wasn't all riding on my mug!

Beer Labels

2008-06-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

We'd been doing ads and websites for Nestucca Ridge Developers so it came as no surprise when they asked us to help them out with some beer labels for one of their most well known properties, The Pelican Pub and Brewery. These seasonal beer labels kept the basic look of their traditional beers but we had fun coming up with names for the seasonal beers and doing a little customizing with the labels without losing the basic and core elements.

House of Rebates

2008-05-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

There are great rebates available for installing energy efficient items into your home. The problem was the rebates were hardly noticed. So we came with this idea, "House of Rebates" as a fun interactive way to show all the places residential customers can save energy and money in their house. The micro site was immediately well received with a 18% increase in rebates and a huge increase in traffic to the rebate section of their existing site.

Metro Recycling

2008-05-06T16:01:00.000-07:00

Every day, 20 tons of would be recyclables ends up going off to the landfill because glass and plastic bags get mixed into recycling bins. We created this rolling display that we parked in prominent locations throughout the metro area. It garnered a ton of attention by local television news and of course, the folks walking by.

Rediscovery

2008-04-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

Beginning in January 2009, all bars, restaurants, bingo halls and bowling alleys will be smoke free. As part of a much larger awareness and educational campaign to get the word out, these ads invited the non smokers to rediscover some of the places they might have shied away from because of the smoke.

PGE Park

2008-03-10T14:49:00.000-07:00

Finding the Fan Van turned out to be the most challenge with this effort. We finally found one in Vancouver that was in good operating condition. It's a 1951 Ford step van that was owned by a mechanic. We designed the graphics for the van and the ads to match the retro feel of PGE Park. The Fan Van was driven out to neighborhood little league games and events to give out free ball park swag.

Hotel Modera

2008-02-25T18:18:00.000-08:00

Hotel Modera was a cool project! Holst Architects took a downtown mid century eyesore and turned into a modern, chic hang out. We helped out with the identity package for Hotel Modera including logo, letterhead, business cards, collateral and introduction ads. I worked with art director Martha Koenig on this. She developed a sweet logo and really poured her heart and soul into this project.

Imelda's Anniversary

2008-02-02T14:59:00.000-08:00

Imelda's celebrated it's 15th anniversary this year. I've been doing ads for them from the beginning. We established a nice consistent brand look and voice for them and branding seems to be a big part of their success.

Tonkon Torp

2008-01-06T14:53:00.000-08:00

Most lawyer marketing touts specialties, photos of the attorney, and all the charm and marketing sophistication usually associated with retail advertising. Not much brand building going on. That was different with Tonkon, they wanted to stand for something more. After some research into who they are and what made them so unique, we created the positioning of "There's no substitute for talent." One of my favorite ads was the one with the plumber.

New Metro Paint Label

2007-11-12T10:23:00.000-08:00

Metro came to us looking to update their label for their recycled paint division. This design was inspired by the circling arrows recycling logo. We cleverly replaced the arrows with paint brushes. Martha Koenig was the designer extrodinaire for this project.

Every Little Bit

2007-09-12T09:42:00.000-07:00

This was our launch spot promoting Avista's new Every Little Bit website. All part of effort to promote energy efficiency and the idea that little things we all do can add up to big changes. As a side note, that's me walking down the sidewalk in the end shot!

High Performance Buildings

2007-09-02T13:22:00.000-07:00

This campaign for BetterBricks was all part of the effort to get building owner and operators to look at their buildings in a different way, more of a money making (saving) way. Ultimately we want to reshape the discussion among architects, developers and building operators of what is meant by a high performance building.

Hawthorne Construction

2007-07-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

Imelda's was concerned about the impact a repaving construction project was going to have on their business. As were most of the retailers on Hawthorne Blvd. We took advantage of this bad situation by taking responsibility for it and apologizing to all for the inconvenience in this fun ad and poster. Of all the ads I've worked on for Imelda's, this one got the most attention.

Mt. Saint Helens

2007-07-06T15:22:00.000-07:00

When Mt. Saint Helens blew up about 30 years ago it created one cool destination for tourists. This piece went out to travel agents and corporate HR directors tasked with finding places for retreats and group tours. You can't go wrong with poisonous gasses!

We Mother Nature

2007-04-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

A family owned business doing wonderful stuff. Just needs more people to know about it. We created a series of print ads, a new trade show booth, new logo and tag line. We even breathed new life into their old "k" bell logo by buying thousands of little bells to apply to all their plants.

Buses

2007-03-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

We created these bus sides for The Register-Guard this year. They were primarily designed to promote the Classified section, but they also do wonders at getting attention for the other sections as well. The design was very challenging...trying to figure out how to deal with the rear wheel and rules about how much we could cover the windows.

Saving Energy

2006-09-25T23:18:00.000-07:00

In advertising you're always trying to sell things that people may or may not need. Energy savings and wise use is something worth selling to everyone. I worked with Brent Anderson who provided the art direction and Mark Hooper and Lars Topelmann photographed the images for these ads that promoted good energy practices, wind power and biomass. All part of a much larger effort to reduce overall energy demand during peak hours and increase awareness of alternative forms of energy that PGE is exploring.

I'd Rather Be Downtown

2005-04-12T09:25:00.000-07:00

In Portland there's about a million things to do in the great outdoors. And after you've done them there's always shopping! This commercial promoting downtown retail reminds residents of all the fun you can have downtown.

Portland Speed Bump

2004-10-06T15:56:00.000-07:00

One more in our series of Hilton direct mail postcards. This one invites people to slow down and enjoy all that Portland offers.

Pine Scent

2004-09-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

This is the 3rd in our series of direct mail post cards for Hilton. The effort is paying off nicely. Bookings are up! Paris isn't the only Hilton getting some much deserved attention.

Hilton Water Pressure

2004-08-06T15:37:00.000-07:00

The second in our series of post cards for the Portland Hilton. This one spoke of the nice water pressure in the showers and of course some of the near by attractions.

The Portland Hilton

2004-07-06T15:29:00.000-07:00

It's no secret Portland is a great place to visit. We just wanted to make sure visitors would stay at the Hilton. This postcard is part of a series to invite and entice.

The big fight to save energy

2004-06-21T23:05:00.000-07:00

That drafty window doesn't stand a chance. This was a fun little campaign for Portland General Electric to promote little low cost things home owners could do to save some energy. We didn't have much of a budget so folks at the agency were used as models. I thought these turned out great and they were a big hit with customers.

Olivia's modeling debut

2004-01-28T16:44:00.000-08:00

There's nothing too special about this ad except one of those little babies is my daughter, Olivia! That's her on the far right. She had a lot of fun with the other babies at first but then starting getting upset...just the look we were going for to pay off this concept.

Cheese Please

2003-08-27T22:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple of cool samples for the Oregon Dairy. In addition to the print campaign, we created outdoor ads and point of sale shopping cart reminders. It's all part of a large campaign to promote Oregon cheese over other states cheese, mainly California. Everyone has got a big kick out of them, especially the concept about how versatile cheese can be ...from a nice merlot to classic wonder bread.

Oregon Dairy

2003-04-24T22:16:00.000-07:00

If you like cheese, Oregon State is a great place to be. Tillimook County makes some of the best cheddar this side of Vermont and this ad was part of a campaign to promote that fact. At the time, California dairies we're engaged in a national campaign with happy cows. We used nice big photos and pushed appetite appeal and humor. Based on the increasing number of bypass surgeries being done on folks, I'd say the campaign was quite successful.

Let's Keep Portland a City of Parks

2003-04-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

I live near Laurelhurst Park in Portland. It's an incredible place with a duck pond, dog play area, old growth trees. A jewel of the east side. Portland has a lot of cool parks and it's all because our forefathers had great vision. The Parks Foundation raises money to buy new lands for parks and to maintain the parks we have already. This campaign was one of those labors of love we did at my old agency, Johnson Sheen. Lars Topelmann provided the images and Mike Proctor and Jim Carey rounded out the creative team. Along with these ads, we created a logo, tag line, tv commercial, a directmail peice and content for a website.

Chipper

2002-11-12T22:59:00.000-08:00

Brent Anderson had a friend who started this company and needed a little marketing help. We created a few trade ads to grease the wheels for him at an upcoming trade show. These worked out great plus we got to eat jerky for a month.

Powerline Safety

2002-09-30T16:21:00.000-07:00

We wanted a dramatic, attention getting spot that would make people understand that any downed power line is dangerous. I wrote this spot and was very pleased how well the execution of it went. The kid was great! Good pyro's on the downed line, too!

Hold Music

2002-07-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

PGE launched Townpartner as an online resource for it's customers to find contractors, get hooked up with local utilities and be a go to site for new residents. This spot pokes a little fun on how long you can get stuck on hold while trying to sing up for services like garbage hauling.

2002-03-15T09:22:00.000-08:00

Whirligig

2002-03-09T09:56:00.000-08:00

This spot was part of a campaign from PGE promoting good, clean and efficient wind power to it's customers. We were looking for a way to visually display and romance this invisible source of energy and the whirligig seemed like a perfect solution. This piece of art was custom made for our production out of old, recycled pop cans and bike parts.

Talk Radio KPAM

2002-01-12T07:55:00.000-08:00

Like that Bob Dylan song goes..."the times they are a changing" and talk radio is one of the best ways to keep up on those changing times. We created these KPAM concepts to engage listeners and get them involved in the conversation. They all played off current events of the day and changed fairly frequently

Use less but get more

2001-06-02T20:03:00.000-07:00

Most homes built today have more energy efficiency than older homes but Earth Advantage homes take it a few steps further than standard code. And it appears there's a lot of folks out there that like the idea of a home that uses less energy without any sacrifice on comfort.

Firkin Beer

2001-02-21T07:36:00.000-08:00

Firkin beer is one of the new offerings at Bridgeport. It's an old school way to double ferment beer which the brew master was quite excited to tell us all about. We decided to create longer copy ads to explain how it's brewed and what makes it so good. We had a little fun with the word "Firkin" too in our tag line.

The Dumbwaiter

2001-01-30T22:10:00.000-08:00

The success continued with this third installment of our popular blueprints for Coffman Excavation. I liked the use of the earths core as a "convection oven" to keep the food warm during transit. A lot of the credit to the success of these pieces goes to Jeff Foster and his fabulous illustrations. Thank you Jeff.

For The Love of Cars

2000-08-25T13:59:00.000-07:00

Our great media team at Johnson Sheen secured the side of a large, highly visible building in downtown Portland for us to paint on. Guy Ragnetti and Mark Slotemaker and I came up with this neat idea involving cherubs to play off our tagline "For the love of cars." My big contribution was the car keys as arrows! Jeff Foster provided the illustration skills needed to bring it all to life. It was never planned to be up for so many years, but it's high visibility and sucess have lead the Tonkin's to renew the contract year after year. I'm glad...I've enjoyed seeing this wall scape become a fixture in downtown Portland's landscape.

Back in the saddle

2000-07-25T13:24:00.000-07:00

Some ads just create themselves. I spent an afternoon looking through the archive files at Hamley and Company and stumbled across some great old photos from the Pendleton Round up. They also had a lot of old material with clip art, logos, lots of fun little things I could incorporate into the ads. I was the writer, art director and creative director on this ad. Needless to say, I was tickled when this ad won a PAF Rosey Award and made it into the CA Advertising Annual.

Highway to Sunshine

2000-04-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

With the amazing response to the Mt. Hood Relocation Project, we began creating concepts for a whole series of blueprints to mail out as quarterly calendars. Next up, The Portland / Honolulu Tunnel Project. We nick named it the highway to sunshine.

Let's Eat

1999-08-11T21:29:00.000-07:00

Stanfords has been a Portland institution for several years. When you walk in through the front doors you can see the wood stacks they use for cooking. This campaign celebrated their good eats!

Tektronix Printers

1999-07-08T16:32:00.000-07:00

Tektronix made such high quality printers they were eventually bought by Xerox. This campaign capitalized on how easy and reliable their color printers are. It seems like every time you're in a crunch to get something ready for a meeting is the time when your printer starts to head south and leave you high and dry. Not the case with these. Just hit print. In fact, many of them are the work horses of design firms, ad agencies, and in house publishing departments.

Jantzen Heritage

1999-05-26T05:57:00.000-07:00

I love working on old brands. And they don't get much older than Jantzen. We wanted to celebrate this fact with a heritage campaign that spoke of their early innovations, controversies and how they changed the way America views the swimsuit. This was one of four campaigns we presented the rest were far more hip and modern. The funny thing about this campaign is the client didn't really like it and killed it. Fortunately the Rosey awards this year had a "wipe out" award for best ad campaign that was killed by a client. Our Jantzen heritage campaign won. Which was all fun and good, but what made it great is the Jantzen client who killed it was retiring and was named "Ad professional of the year" at the same award show ceremony and had to go up to the podium right after us to accept his award.

Mt. Hood Relocation Project

1999-03-23T18:03:00.000-08:00

When I first met Carl Coffman his excavation business was doing about 18 million dollars a year. Not bad for a guy who started out with a dump truck and back hoe. He wanted to do something to get his company noticed by architects, city planners and of course, big developers. In one of our early meetings I remember him saying "I don't care if it's a big project or little one, we can do it." It was his can do attitude that lead to our Anythings Possible campaign. We thought it would be neat to send out a full sized blueprint with an ambitious project featured on it. Our first one was the Mt. Hood relocation project. The day we mailed it out his phone began to ring off the hook. The peiced was so successful in generating attention and leads we ended up creating 7 different new projects. In 4 years time Coffman Excavation was doing over 50 million a year in business.

Anthro Carts

1998-10-28T07:23:00.000-08:00

A quick tour of the Anthro Cart factory soon revieled how well made and versatile these carts are. I was amazed at the custom computer software system they used to control design, warehouse inventory of raw materials, and the manufacturing process. This all made it possible to create unique and durable carts very quickly. I could see why the carts are so popular with designers, medical technicians and architect frims. This is one of the b2b ads that we did that I liked.

Time to change the light bulbs

1997-06-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

Replacing old incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light is one of the first steps a homeowner can do to save energy. Plus the bulbs last a long, long time. This was an ad that played off both those benefits.

Keno Players Winning Techniques

1996-05-12T09:29:00.000-07:00

We interviewed over 100 Keno players to learn if there was a secret to winning this new Oregon Lottery game. Over twenty winners were filmed over a 3 day period in Portland's Lotus Lounge and we ended up with about a dozen spots. People really do say the strangest things...you just have to make sure you're rolling film when they do!

Melrose Place

1996-02-24T22:49:00.000-08:00

Never watched the show but I heard it was sort of like this.

The Oregonian

1995-12-11T23:46:00.000-08:00

Before Craigslist, newspapers had a classified sections and they even advertised them. This Oregonian ad not only spoke the truth about how much more wiser it is to buy used vs. new it even managed to get into the CA Advertising Annual.

Dr. Martens Trade Ad

1995-07-16T21:42:00.000-07:00

After we launched our national print campaign for doc martens, we followed it up with some trade ads. This one that David Baldwin wrote was very popular with retailers all across America.

Dr. Klaus Maertens

1995-05-05T21:45:00.000-07:00

A little research goes a long way. When there's a fork in the road it'll help point you in the right direction. That was the case with Dr. Martens. This was the first ad in a national campaign that launched the brand in the US market. Doc Martens had been getting popular within the music industry and the grunge scene in Seattle and there was definitely a strong underground following. But the brand also had a rich heritage in England, sort of like Levi's here in America. Our research indicated that if we tried to be cool and play the hipster card we'd sell out the brand and loose our biggest group of core customers. So instead we went with heritage. It was the right approach. The brand grew in popularity and didn't alienate the core. Lars Topelmann was the photographer on these. It was one of my favorite productions and my first trip abroad. Epilogue: All good things have to come to an end and such was the case with Docs. A couple years into the heritage campaign the client made a change in direction and wanted to promote the music/cool/hip side of the brand. The brand has yet to recover.

Klein Brochure

1994-08-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

This was the first peice I ever worked on that won a gold pencil at The One Show in NYC. I was fortunate enough to work with a great art director named Joe Shands. My friend, Lars Topelmann was the photographer and Jack Peterson, the account executive was our model. We even used my old truck in one of the shots. Lars was really beginning to hone his style. He's one of the best photographers I've ever worked with and has provided the photos for most of the award winning work that I've done. An interesting side note is even with a 50% off employee discount I couldn't afford to spend $1500 on a bike.

Cool invention

1989-11-01T22:29:00.000-08:00

Al Gore invented the internet today. Right on.