As festivals go, the Stockley Gardens Arts Festival is an intimate affair, with Ghent neighbors gathering in the shade of tall trees and church steeples. This poster was created for the Spring 2007 event.

One of my last projects at Stratum was was a Flash interactive game for Swimways, a manufacturer of pool toys who were launching an ad campaign for their "Back To Pool" summer promotion. I came up with the "Cannonball" game concept and did all the illustrations. Stratum's technical team did all the Flash development and programming. Wanna play? Go here.

The two roof peaks formed an "M", but also were reminiscent of mountain peaks ("monte" = "mountain"), but you knew that.

Bob Smith at Earworks wanted to create a direct mail campaign aimed at ad creatives. Since that'a a pretty skewed bunch of folks, Bob naturally turned to me to address them. Over the last few years, I've nine or ten of them. And this is one.

A dream assignment: every week I got most of a page in the Virginian-Pilot to draw and write pretty much what I want.

This annual charitable event features dishes supplied by a variety of local restaurants. This vector illustration was created from an idea by AD Jeff Ringer promoting a Western theme, and was used for posters, ads, point of sale and t-shirts. My fee: all I could eat.

Lawler Ballard Van Durand, the agency for Smithfield Foods, had concepted six TV spots for their client featuring TV personality Paula Deen, and had a week to produce storyboards. Not a problem. And since I work digitally, the boards could be reproduced in a variety of sizes and formats.