Bruner Design

Print Work - Design, Prepress, Art

Wines That Rock Print Ad Design, Branding, Prepress Wines Label DesignDesign, Branding, Development Fanball Magazine Art Direction, Prepress Book Cover DesignDesigm, Prepress TShirt DesignDesign, Prepress Magazine Startup Design CompsDesign, Branding, Art Direction, Planning Magazine Holiday IllustrationsDesign and Illustration Award Winning Book DesignDesign and Art Direction Magazine Cover IllustrationDesign and Illustration Casebound Book PrepressPlanning and Prepress Point of Purchase Poster Design, Prepress Thunderbirds Illustrations Design and Illustration

Overview

Wines That Rock is a company that doesn't want anything that they do to look or feel like a traditional wine company. These are examples of a few of the four color print ads I have completed for Wines That Rock.

Wines That Rock Print Ads

Overview

The Design of wine labels involves an amazing number of design constraints and limitations. WTR is a "green" company and the labels are printed on recycled paper using soy ink. The nature of the labeling process will not allow the die cuts you see on the labels of Wines from compnies that are not ecologically responsible. I addition government regulations concerning alcohol content and warnngs must be placed in specific fonts styles, sizes and locations. Nevertheless, I was able to come up with lable designs that now grace the bottles of one of the most sucessful new wine companies in years. The label and bottle designs are currently =under consideration for several industry awards.

Wine Label Design

Overview

As V. P. of Creative we designed eleven four-color fantasy sports magazines a year with a small staff and a lot of talent from young designers like Noah Wentz. We designed the best fantasy magazines on the market.

Fanball Magazines

Overview

GBradly publishes pictorial history books for cities and towns across the midwest. The "Joplin Keepsake Album" is one of the dozens of book designs and prepress projects I have completed for GBradley publishing over the last fifteen years. I select a black and white historical photo and create a four-color photo illustration usng mutiple layer and filters. I also color correct and preflight all the images in the GBradley books.

Photo Illustration

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Another Wines That Rock project.Tthe task: design a t-shirt that is contemporary, interesting, and totally different from typical "Wine Company" designs. The solution?Using Illustrator I typed dozens of lines of letters, and then added product names to that random text. Overlaying the star logo, I changed individual letter colors to create the star shape and to hightlight the product words. Tedious, but worth it.

Tee Shirt Design

Overview

Out of Bounds was the brainchild of myself and collegue Bob Parajon. Out of Bounds was a new type of magazine for the Times Mirror, an irreverent, cutting edge sports magazine. Bob and I gave a presentation before the TM Board of Directors and publishers, but our concept was not pursued. Too bad, because I still think it was a great idea.

Magazine Start-Up Cover Design

Overview

Here are a few examples of magazine illustrations I created for various magazines. With the exception of the pencil illustration on the upper left, these were airbrush and brush illustration using acrylics and ink on illustration board.

Magazine Cover Illustrations

Overview

The Game for All Americais a casebound, four-color, 14" x 9", book published by The Sporting News. The inside design was by Bill Perry, the dust cover by myself. The book won several awards, including the Bronze quill Award for Special Media.

Award Winning Book Design

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A designer in all manner of media , i am first an "artist." these are several more examples of illustrations completed for clients like the U.S.A.F and the Missouri Valley Athletic Conference. Clockwise from left, all on illustration board, the media: martin dyes, pencil, and acylics.

Book and Magazine Illustrations

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Celebrating 70 is a four-color, casebound book documenting Mark McGwires historic (at he time) season. The book was designed as the season went along so we could go to press virtually days after the season ended. The book was designed by Bill Wilson and I was responsible for the color correction, production work flow and oversight of the printing - including a half-dozen trips to printing plants for press checks.

Casebound Book Prepress

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Another Wines That Rock project, this tme he task was to desig posters for in-store or point-of-purchase displays,

Point of Purchase Poster

Overview

Over a number of years i was fortunate to be contracted to illustrate posters and promotional materials for the USAF Thunderbirds. Here are a few examples.

Thunderbirds Illustrations