AI-assisted Poster Art

A poster for the 2024 eclipse. The background image is modified from something I made with Google’s AI-powered image generation tool.  A note on the AI aspect of this: for the last few months I've used a set of similar prompts as a sort of homemade benchmark for the tools from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.  This is one of the resulting images that I especially liked.

Family History Graphic

I put this together for my extended family.  We grew up hearing about how Grandpa Don built airplanes during the war, and this shows exactly where it happened and some of what it looked like.  It started when I tried looking up "Weeks Ave." after I came across the photo of the house; it turns out that the street no longer exists.  So instead I found a map of San Diego from just before the war (the map is from 1940), and the rest came together from there.  

Postscript: Consolidated merged with Vultee in 1943 and became Convair, which was bough by General Dynamics in the 1950s, which was bought in turn by McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s.  McDonnell Douglas closed all manufacturing operations in San Diego by the mid-1990s, and Lindbergh Field is now the San Diego International Airport.  All the old buildings are long gone, but you can still see artifacts from the 1940s on display at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park, including a fully restored PBY.

Branding for Wasatch Elementary School 75th Anniversary

I worked with others on the basic design, then refined it and provided multiple variations in vector and raster formats to allow for use in digital form, on posters, banners, clothing, stationary, etc.  Every time we stop by the school it's cool to see it in new and different forms and in new and different places.

Cover design and Photography

I made the cover for the self-published book Encounters with Rabbits.  I also provided the main images on the front and back cover.

Office of Economic Development Booklet

An eight-page opportunity zone booklet I put together for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development after researching and writing the content.  As with the Campus Overview (and many of my other projects), I used existing material and created graphics and took photos as needed to get the best finished result.  

Campus Overview

A real estate report available both as a 27-slide deck and 27-page PDF.  Contains background information, photos, and floor plans for over a dozen industrial buildings.  I kept the report updated, and it grew another three slides/pages over time.  As of 2024 the newer version is still posted here.

Specs/Mockups for Update to Management Tools

This set covers several refinements to existing work order and expense tracking features as well as the addition of a handful of new features.

Starting at the top left corner: improved detail view for an expense item, below which is a visual history of the expense as allocated (accessible from the detail view).

The other image on the top row is a modified version of a summary view of all work orders for a given class code.  Below this view are two new detail views: one showing machine time allocations, the other showing summary budget info.

The third row shows what comes up if the user drills into the details for the budget: significant milestones, spending over time, and editing functions are all shown.

Note that this is only a sample of the full set of specs, and, note that, as with other proprietary items, the copyright of the component images belongs to Novatek and the thumbnails are intentionally shown at a size that obscures the finer details (alas).