Illustrated point of sale display at Walgreens (Not my artwork)

Nothing gets me in the Christmas spirit like seeing store displays and signage signaling it’s time for the holidays again!

One of my favorite things to design is holiday-themed items… postcards, emails, packaging, invitations, point-of-sale graphics, illustrations, FREE WALLPAPERS (hint hint… scroll down!)… You name it. It’s a blast!  Here are a few examples of past holiday-themed design work I’ve been blessed to create…

POSTCARDS:

HTML Emails:

ILLUSTRATIONS:

PACKAGING:

After some great feedback from my colleagues here is a new version. I’m echoing the color scheme of my favorite “Serif” hat from Veer.com. Also, I took off the background texture to make the site less busy (it competed with the work) and reduced the number of browns in my palette.

Let me know what you think…

As I move my illustration to it’s own site, I’m needing to change the look and feel of my design site. I’m loosing the ‘crayon box’ look and should be moving to a Wordpress-driven design.

Here’s my concept – please let me know what you think. Thanks!

Professor Plum t-shirt for the ladies available at Zazzle.com

The latest in my Clue character series of T-Shirts is available at Zazzle.com. Check it out!

A new animation for our children’s church class, Steve and Alan in “Lizzalicious”. Script by Randall House publishing.

My latest project from J&D Foods is coming soon! Check out the front label for this Bacon Gravy: Country Style gravy mix. I did the design and illustration.

My clients J&D Foods asked me to photoshop up a mock ad for Jon Stewart, in exchange for his slam on their product Baconnaise. It was a great project to work on, and I heard Stewart got a kick out of it. Check it out:

Tex Message and Cookie star in “Cookin’ the Books”, a new cartoon created for New Hope FWB’s children’s church program, based upon a script written by Randall House.

Here are various examples of Flash designs I’ve created over the years. I don’t do much action-scripting or development, but as far as a presentation tool, I can hold my own. Take a look…

First, an example from an online course I helped create on Web design. This example tracks a user’s typical eye movement around a webpage:  design_eyeflow

Another example from the same course, this is an interactive module showing 4 distinct design motifs a Web designer may use: Design_4styles

Here is an animated vignette I storyboarded and designed for the Focus on the Family Institute: ffi_flash_v1.1

Another Web vignette introducing users to the benefits of using ForMinistry.com. Created in 2001: ForMinistry_2.1

Here is a personal experiment in interactivity, developing drag-and-drop functionality using Flash 5 and creating refridgerator magnet poetry: fridgepoetry

Another web vignette concept, created for Victory Outreach back in the early 2000s while on staff at HighPoint Solutions: utc_tour

While working at HighPoint, we also created an online course on e-learning for World Vision International. Here is an animation explaining the concept of Asynchronous E-Learning: wvi_asynch

Some examples of packaging design I’ve worked on over the span of my careeer:

Take a look at my latest t-shirt for The Cheezburger Network! I’d say you can buy it, but you’re too late. ;) If you’re lucky you may catch a reprint over at www.lolmart.com, but no guarantees.

Cheddar BaconPOP packaging by Rob Christianson

The packaging I designed for J&D Foods Cheddar BaconPOP can now be shown! And you can order it online… check out their offer on Facebook!

This is the video I did for Media Partners, “Good Company”. I was responsible for all editing, greenscreening, background illustration and animation.

A logo design for a local electronic bookseller:

I cut together this video earlier this week using just iMovie for the new social media site, Vote iQ. It’s featured on Vote iQ’s homepage.What is Vote iQ?

I was contacted by an associate of Lynda Meeks, the author of the Penelope Pilot book I illustrated. My client needed something engaging for kids and military pilot moms, so the artwork had to be “cool” too. ;)

Take a look and let me know your thoughts on it.

Illustration for an upcoming book, t-shirt, mug, etc.

Packaging design for J&D Foods, creators of Bacon Salt and BaconPOP popcorn

Well, the doors of opportunity are swinging wide once more. If you are looking for an inspired Senior Designer, Art Director or Illustrator with over 12 years of professional experience (including 7 years at two successful agencies) give me a call at 253.217.2032 or contact me through my website. My resume is online, my references are impeccable and I’m ready to create!

I recently designed the official shirt for FAIL Blog. Well, I hope it will become the official shirt, anyways.

What do you think?

FAIL Blog tshirt design

Made during the last election.

I almost forgot about this one. I drew it while waiting for my son to mow the grass last weekend.

Wow this came out of nowhere. I follow so many people on Twitter, that if I don’t happen to glace at Tweetdeck now and then, posts just fly by. I happened to glance at a tweet from political super-blogger and pundit Michelle Malkin today. Her post asked for someone to do a quick Photoshop job of Harry Reid… now, despite my contracting for Vote iQ, which is fiercely non-partisan, I don’t really do much political design. I’ve done a few poli cartoons in the past, but the vitriol they tend to generate made me think twice. All that to say, I really don’t know much about Harry Reid, other than that I always see banners calling for his termination. I tend to be more libertarian yet conservative when it comes to politics, but as a Christian, I know that no human system will be the end-all and be-all of world peace or prosperity.

I just stepped up to the challenge, not knowing who the two folks were but thinking there might be some excitement out there, and I admit, I wanted to show off some killer Photoshop skills. And if more people come check out VoteiQ because of it, then all the better! This is what I did… it took all of 5 minutes, but it got a heck of a response on Twitter!

My Harry Reid cartoon for Michelle Malkin

Quite possibly the most “interesting” assignment I’ve ever done as a freelancer, this ad will run on the back cover of a popular zombie comic book. Look for it in a graveyard near you! ;)

I designed this ad for an email blast to go out today. What do you think? One photo was public domain, one was CC brazil, and the Golden Gate photo was from www.sxc.hu (Stock XChange is a great source for free photography)

I’ve been creating a lot of icons for Vote iQ, the new political social media platform. Take a peek at some of them: