It’s Sunday and time for another Backyard Enterprises area rug design. Remember this one the next you spill hideous deadly chemicals. Do you have mad chemical containment skills? Why the heck not?
An Organized Storage is a Happy Storage
It’s the weekend, time for another couple of Backyard Enterprises area rug designs. This would be today’s design.
A Less Than Ideal Work Environment
The last of my audition illustrations for the lawsuit illustration work. No actual work came from the lawyer. I can’t remember whether it was because she didn’t care for my work or if Jason ended up being free the next time she needed someone or if she just didn’t have any need while I was available.
Oh Ya, Pfflecctly Fine t’Drive
Another of my audition drawings for the litigation illustration gig.
Hang Up and Drive
One of Jason‘s occasional clients was a personal injuries lawyer. He created large illustrations that she used as part of her court presentations. Since most people aren’t being photographed while they are getting hurt the illustrations were designed to give jurors a more direct picture of what had happened to the lawyer’s client. I understand that they were a pretty effective tool.
In 2002 Jasson was pretty busy with design work at Labor of Love so he suggested that I apply for the court illustration job. This is the first of three sketches I worked up.
Awesome Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches
In 2002 or 2003 Labor of Love was commissioned to design a logo and menu for neighborhood minimart that was adding deli service to their offerings. They made a good variety of good sandwiches, their specialty being a philly cheesesteak that I thought was really excellent. They even offered a chicken version that I thought was even better. I prefer chicken over beef most days so I’m sure others would disagree. I did the base illustrations for the menu. Jason Oxrieder did his meticulous magic and turned them into vector art. This fat pasha is the only one that turned up in the zip disks I was cleaning off.
Saleh’s is still there but the deli service only last a year. I was never clear why they gave it up. Too expensive? Time consuming?
The Pile Attacks!!
This sketch is from around 2001 or 2002. I don’t remember if I’d planned to make a project (i.e. a finished illustration) out of it or if I was just having fun sketching.
Track Down Waste!
Another of the rug designs for Backyard Enterprises. Jeff Swensen did all the design work for BE products.
There’s quite a bit of BE material. In order to keep variety in my posts I’m going to be just posting the BE stuff on weekends. So, if you love visions of cartoon animals handling toxic wastes, you’ll want to be back here every Saturday and Sunday.
Drums not Drains
An example of one of the Backyard Enterprises area rug designs.
Ignore This Rug and Die
Besides booklets and posters the major product we designed were rugs. Since most of the business Backyard Enterprises planned to target were industrial spaces most of them also used some sort of area rugs that needed to be replaced on a regular basis. We found our client a source that printed logos and original designs on rugs and then set about designing a variety of simple messages and illustrations to go on them.
