Wiped out.

This campaign lost out to another campaign. But I preferred this one.

The art direction by David Watts might be what does it for me. From the color palette to the balance of the various pieces within the layout to the way the product shots are incorporated without looking cheesy — this stuff is Tube City (and there's no greater compliment than that).

When you work with really talented people, which I am blessed with the opportunity to do every day, things you helped create become much more than what you saw in your head.

To the stock photo places we got the images from: I'm sorry.

Gas, Tires & Chicken Bones

Part Three in the Angela Miller Pro Bono Poster Trilogy.

Here's the deal. Back in 2004, NASCAR took away Rockingham's race and gave it Las Vegas or someplace, making a ghost town of this monster racetrack (and the town that's its namesake). A few years down the road, Angela's cousin, Andy Hillenburg, buys the track and brings ARCA racing to town. The inaugural race was held in May. It was great to see racing back at The Rock.

Angela and I wanted to help out in any way we could. The result: this poster (and ads just like it). A big fat thanks goes to Richard Paschal who helped out with some high performance photo retouching.

What a hog!

AIGA Raleigh set up the "re|THINK Our Environment in the Carolinas" poster exhibition. There were 121 posters submitted by area designers and 20 were chosen to be printed. Angela Miller and I put one together and made the cut.

The roll-out reception shindig was part of Raleigh's First Friday Gallery Walk back in April. It was a pretty neat deal to see my work hung up like it was a real piece of art (like the Sisteen Chapel or maybe one of those refrigerator doors that Ed "Big Daddy" Roth airbrushed Rat Fink on), with people looking at it and holding those little plastic wine glasses.