Framed Engineering Posters

A total of over 80 items used for a mix of permanent display, VIP tours, and open house events over several years (sample set shown below). Worked with engineers and management on everything from the design of the original template to the assembly and creation of component visuals to the drafting of copy. Also worked with two different printers and framers on final production. Typical size of 60" by 38", with some much larger. 

Personal History (the rest)

As noted in this earlier post, I started a regular job while in the thick of doing a personal history.

And now it's done: adding a few dozen evenings and weekends to the mix has resulted in nearly 150 more pages, front and back covers, all final proofing and editing, and a very happy customer (she is happy with both the substance and the timing; the digital content made it to the printer in time for her to get finished copies to giver to her family as Christmas gifts).

Even though I based the formatting on what I had developed for an earlier book, this just-finished book was made as a a glossy paperback with perfect binding (rather than a stitched hardback with endpapers).

In total, the book has over 80,000 words spread over 17 chapters and complimented by over 650 pictures.

(An image with tiny thumbnails of the middle 100 pages is past the break.)

Personal History (first third)

Time to break a long drought in postings, not with a finished product, but with a snapshot of the reason for the drought: ongoing work on my last big freelance job.  I committed to it before starting full time with Novatek (see below), and I've been working on it in fits and starts ever since.

To date, squeezing in a few hours at a time has totaled in 108 finished pages (the first 100 shown to the right in miniature; a mix of fully-formatted text and just short of 300 pictures).  I've used the same basic layout that is shown here, and hope to be done before summer is over...

Pancuts (old pans + water jet cutter)

 In progress - will be updated when finished. 

I made my first set of pancuts while still in college.  The project started with a sketch and a cabinet full of very beat-up frying pans.  They were useless for cooking, which was why I had the thought of using them as blank canvases.

After scanning and vectorizing my sketch, I was able to use the school's water jet cutter to slice the design into the pans.  The final product turned out great, and for a few years I didn't pursue the idea further. (These first pancuts are now in storage, but a rendering of the design is here.)

In 2009, I had another thought: what about cutting a pan to make it look like a clock face?  This idea expanded out to the twenty designs shown to the right, with many more on the drawing board.

The bad news is that I'm not sure how much longer this will be an in-progress project.  I've made a few visits to second-hand stores and stocked up on old pans, but getting a new full-time job has put a damper on side projects.  Additionally, finding a local job shop with the right equipment and an interest in doing art parts has been surprisingly hard.

I'm planning to sell these once they are made, so I'm very interested in knowing if anyone out there would consider buying something like this.  Please let me know if you want to reserve a copy of one of the designs shown and/or would like to request some other design and/or have any other thoughts on the subject.  You can either write direct or use the contact form found here.  

Manuscript and Covers for Print-on-Demand Title

This was something of a technical work, with hundreds of footnotes and images.  I received the manuscript as a roughly formed MS Word document, and returned it as a ready-to-print PDF.  The scope of this job included basic copy editing, standardizing citations and usage, correcting layout, correcting formatting, and updating or creating images where needed.

I also created covers for hard-bound and soft-bound editions, and created some basic marketing materials (pictured after the break).

Hardbound Personal History

A 402-page personal history covering client's life from the 1940s to the date of publication. Project included extensive copy editing, the creation and/or improvement of hundreds of images and tables, and all layout and formatting.

Significant features:

• Full-bleed cover and endpapers.
• Cross-country collaboration with client and printer for the full duration of the project.
• Research and special organization of ancestry section.

Technical Report Rewrite

The History and Significance of Military Packaging was written by Joseph Maloney, Jr in the late 1980s.  It was later published as Technical Report 1-96 by the Defense Systems Management College Press.

I was first introduced to a version of the report that was being updated by Mr. Maloney when he retired.  Since this "new" version was outdated and still very rough around the edges, I asked for the job of bringing it up to date and into a ready-to-release form.  I got the job, and this is the result.

To get a sense of the quantity and quality of the work I did, you can go here to look at the first published version of the report (39 pages long), or go here to see the version that I started with (51 pages long).

BYU School of Technology Web Design

From March 2000 to November 2002, I was the webmaster for the School of Technology and for the School's Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) program.  My work as the MET webmaster continued on to August 2003.

This was a part-time work-study position that involved independent webpage authoring and maintenance, including the production and editing of content on my own and extensive work with professors and teaching assistants to create and maintain individual class websites.

The sample images to the right represent only a tiny percentage of what I did over my three-and-a-half years as webmaster.  Shown are two samples each of the home pages for the School of Technology and the MET program.  I was also responsible for most of the sub-domains shown on these home pages (i.e. the faculty profile pages, the facilities overview pages, the news pages, etc.).

Most of the content and structure I developed for the MET program has been replaced, but it was all intact through late 2006, which means that it had a very long life for web content.