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.

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. 

Company Logo and Branding Materials (ongoing)

Late in 2011, I created the original Hidden Butler company logo after talking with the company owner about the desired look.  I've since made several variations of the all-vector design, and used them for branding and advertising across many mediums. (Some of the examples noted below are more recent than the date on this post, and still more may be added in the future.)

The composite image shows some of the variety; on the top left you see an embroidered sample and mockups for use on a polo shirt and laundry bag.  Below these is a business card, in the center are two six-foot tall banners (used for trade show advertising), and on the right are two views of the branding on a fleet vehicle (a baseline version of the 2012 Ford Transit).

After the break you'll find an inverted background version, the logo as placed on the main product (cut into the metal plaque/nameplate), and, as soon as they're released, links to the company's dedicated smartphone apps.

The copyright for all of these images is owned by Hidden Butler.  Click here for more info on the company, and here, here, and here [forthcoming] for posts on my other logo design work.

Company Business Overview Report

A multipage report made to provide a high-level overview of the company for select external partners.  As with the publicly-available press report [post forthcoming - available here in the meantime], this was designed to work both as a printed booklet and as an all-digital package.  Some design cues also taken from the capabilities report.

As indicated in the tags for this post, the project required a combination of creating new content, finding and adapting existing content, copy writing/editing, and then bringing it together into a cohesive whole.

The copyright on these images belongs to Novatek, and the versions posted are intentionally shown at a size that obscures the finer details, alas.  Though it's probably overcautious on my part, I've also blacked out some sections, just to be sure nothing even remotely sensitive is wrongly hinted at.  A further disclaimer: a period of time after the first drafts were proofed, the report was updated before further internal or external distribution, but what's posted here is the old, outdated content.

Novatek Capabilities Report

Copyright for this image belongs to Novatek.

A hybrid technical report and marketing booklet focused on the company's capabilities.  This started as a set of eight .pdf pages focused on existing and planned drill testing facilities, but it has since tripled in size to cover different production, R&D, and other areas.

The report also grew into a top-level page featured in the main navigation bar of the company website.  The image to the right shows a screen grab of the page, which I designed.

I was in charge of collecting all information and graphics, writing and editing copy, and producing, posting, and printing the final digital and print versions.

As shown in the graphic, the print versions were produced with formatting that took advantage of the medium by using mirrored layouts for facing pages.

Another Custom Family Calendar

Another very very very custom calendar - see this post for the 2010 version.  Again designed with full bleed tabloid-sized sheets and different layouts for every page.  Again printed and distributed to all adult members of the family for less than what it would have cost to make a template-based calendar of a smaller size.

(There are more than twelve pages in the montage because several February variations were considered, including one featuring a picture of a trilobite I found over the summer near Delta, Utah.)

Family Reunion Invitation

An invitation printed two-to-a-page for a biennial reunion, with a "historic photo" of the root family at the top.  In the original photo, the family was arranged in more of a tall pyramid shape, so it took some masking and cloning work to get the result shown.

Also including a screen capture from within the program used to make the invite (Fireworks CS4), to give an idea of the number of elements used to create the finished product.

  

Vacation Picture Collages

San Diego!  I didn't take all the photos, but did do all the mixing and matching into the groupings shown (and just to be clear, all the photos did come from our one-week trip to California).  There are a few more collages after the break; all told about half of the sets made for the post-trip family show and tell.

  

Family Calendar, etc.

Tabloid-sized print with all birthday information on one side and a montage of all family members on the other.  I also produced a single-sheet summary of all family contact info as part of the project.

This was commissioned for a great-grandmother with 17 biological and adopted children and nearly three dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  Copies were sent to all the adult children in the family.

Completing the project required extensive collaboration in order to collect and organize four generations worth of names, dates, and photos.

Before and After Photographs

Photos I took of a relative and the modifications I made to them. The pictures were taken between October of 2009 and March of 2010 with a Nikon D40, and I used Fireworks CS4 to make the changes. More details on each image.

      

Family Cards

Forty laminated credit card-sized pictures with initials and color-coordinated backgrounds (more on the color scheme below).

These were made to help keep track of who's who on both sides of the family, but they have been used in many other ways, too.  The letters are good for learning the alphabet, the family groupings allow games of Go Fish, and there are many different ways to rearrange by type (to see which side of the family has more members, to see if there are more boys than girls overall, to see how many people wear glasses, etc.).

Colors indicate relationships (all cousins have a blue background, for example), and the letters are placed to show maternal or paternal relationship (letters for people on the father's side are on the left, those for the mother's side on the right, as below).

Cemetery Guidebook

A 52-page guide to the burial places of four generations of client's ancestry. Project included researching burial locations, on-site photography, creating a comprehensive organizational system, and of course the layout and formatting of all materials.  I also got it placed in the FamilySearch Digital Library/Catalog for permanent online availability. (Note that you'll need a FamilySearch login to get access to the full version and that I updated this 2010 version in 2014.) 

Significant features:

• Full-bleed maps of the region in which each cemetery is located (with addresses, hours, and contact information for regional resources such as museums and family history centers).
• Full-bleed aerials of each cemetery (with GPS coordinates and burial sites markers).
• Ground-level photographs of each gravesite, accompanied by map and portrait insets.
• Life outlines for each ancestor.

Custom Family Calendar

A very very very custom calendar, with full bleed tabloid-sized sheets and different layouts for every page (including different orientations for several months).  All family images came from pictures taken during the prior year, except for the June and December "heritage" images.

Printed and distributed to all adult members of the family for less than what a template-based calendar of a smaller size would cost.

(There are more than twelve pages in the montage because two cover options are included as well as a mockup of a page for a 2011 calendar.)

DVD/CD Packaging (mock-up)

During the summer of 2009, I was an extra in a movie about the Mormon Battalion.  I used a cellphone to take the picture to the right while trekking from one shot to another with several other extras.

On one of the last days of the shoot someone brought in copies of a self-published disc containing several out-of-print books about the Battalion.  Since the packaging was very rudimentary, I had the idea of using my picture as one element of an improved packaging design.  (I'll update this post if the project develops further.)

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.

Travel Report Infographics

In both 2007 and 2008 my wife and I combined work trips and vacation time into multi-week cross-country journeys.  These infographics summarize the trips, and the state outline photos show some of the specific locations visited.

  

Wedding Announcement

Made for my own wedding with Macromedia Fireworks MX.  (I did not produce all the component images - the central picture on the front, the paperclip, the seed, and the bee are the work of others.)

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.