For The Love of Cars

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

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

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.