Week #19 – Brain Fried Zone
You have now entered the Brain Fried Zone. This is a place where you may have wandered when your creative juices hit rock bottom. Things have been busy at work, and it’s easy to start to feel creative...
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Those who know me know that I like old trains and vintage baseball. So it should be no surprise to see a few more posters on these subjects. The On30 Two Truck Shay is train I bring out at Christmas....
View ArticleWeek #21 – 1927 Blues
Like I’ve said before, those who know me know that I like old trains and vintage baseball. So it should be no surprise to see a few more posters on these subjects. This week’s poster commemorates a...
View ArticleWeek #22 – Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Here is a nice house for sale, comes with one of those scary mortgages. This is actually a house in Virginia City, NV. I photo graphed it several years ago and it looked creepy with...
View ArticleWeek #23 – Market Street Railway
We did the tourist thing with family that was visiting from Georgia. I was the tourist with a camera in San Francisco, what more can you say. The vintage trolley cars were running and made for a photo...
View ArticleWeek #24 – It’s Magic!
I’ve had this poster hanging on the door to my office for a few years. I figured it’s earned the right to be in my series of posters. As a designer, you sometimes feel like you’re performing magic....
View ArticleWeek #25 – Ping Pong Valley Railroad
This week I launched a new blog — The Ping Pong Valley Railroad. So to commemorate the event I put this week’s poster to good use. I used one on my recent photos from a visit to the Niles Canyon...
View ArticleWeek #26 – Feather River Route
On a recent vacation I took some photos at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. I wanted to push the photos to bring in some more interest. The purpose of the Poster-A-Week project is to...
View ArticleWeek #27 – Retro Racer
Keeping a fresh gallery of images to draw inspiration from is very important when you’re trying to design a poster a week. That’s why I always like having a camera at the ready. It never hurts to have...
View ArticleWeek #28 – 1979 GrassHopper
I wanted to actually build a teardrop trailer. I did a lot of research and ended up restoring a rare 1979 GrassHopper. Polaroids seem to be a retro design image that fit well to enhance the images. I...
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