NIKE: Maple hardwood flooring with basketball markings on the floor. Wooden bleachers cladding the walls. Gorgeous displays of cutting-edge athletic shoes. The coolest mannequins in town. Great lighting. Unique and perfectly designed store fixtures. As you enter their store they are challenging you to keep up with their brave new world, and […]
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I am an architectural illustrator. I create drawings of buildings, retail stores and I illustrate conceptual ideas that are buried in somebody’s imagination and need to be brought to life. I usually base the illustrations on an architect’s plans, sometimes from photographs, and often the conceptual sketches are based on the clues I pick up watching
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Years ago I was working in a small retail store design firm headed up by an experienced designer who had been around the block a few times and had a lot of hard-earned knowledge and valuable sage advice. My job was to create hand-drawn illustrations of the stores he’d designed, and he’d use those sketches
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Before I began designing retail stores I worked as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry. I spent twenty-odd years art directing television commercials, music videos, and feature films. One of the many film projects I worked on was the feature film, The People Under The Stairs, written and directed by the late Wes
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