Illustration
This is one of nine low-budget signs I did for a seaside camp and retreat on O’ahu. They mark various campsites and needed to be graphically bold, unified, and salt and UV resistant. I grew up in Hawai’i so it was great fun to do these. The manini (“small”) is a common reef fish with a perpetually puzzled expression.
Fraser Design: Design, Illustration | Client: Camp Mokule’ia
This is another of the nine low-budget signs I did for a seaside camp and retreat on O’ahu. The ulua is a ferocious predator that corrals its prey with it’s blinding speed. If you see it, it’s probably already gone!
Fraser Design: Design, Illustration | Client: Camp Mokule’ia
This is another of the nine low-budget signs I did for a seaside camp and retreat on O’ahu. The weke or goatfish is a bottom feeder, and a popular food fish. Certain weke also had religious meaning in the days of kahiko (ancient times).
Fraser Design: Design, Illustration | Client: Camp Mokule’ia
This is another of the nine low-budget signs I did for a seaside camp and retreat on O’ahu. The o’opu migrates from the ocean up into the mountain streams to breed and hatch. They jump from rock to rock and tidepool to tidepool. Their quizzical face makes them a favorite of kids.
Fraser Design: Design, Illustration | Client: Camp Mokule’ia
This is part of a line of T-shirts and other fun stuff I’m selling under the Digital Mammal brand.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This is part of a line of T-shirts and other fun stuff I’m selling under the Digital Mammal brand.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This is part of a line of T-shirts and other fun stuff I’m selling under the Digital Mammal brand.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This is part of a line of T-shirts and other fun stuff I’m selling under the Digital Mammal brand.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This cartoon is one in a series that I’ve done for an internal campaign. The client is the parent corporation of Hyster.
Fraser Design: Design, illustration | Client: NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc.
Here are two sample strips of my new web comic feature, Muksuk, which is set on a small farm.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This is part of a line of T-shirts and other fun stuff I’m selling under the Digital Mammal brand.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: Self
This topical editorial cartoon drew attention to a business organization’s efforts to safeguard the interests of its members.
PFD: Concept, design, illustration | Client: CEIC
The cover of Wiggle Room, a compilation of my single panel cartoons. Most were published in either the Northwest Meridian or Utne Reader.
Fraser Design: Concept, writing, design, illustration | Client: Self
A photo-illustration from a salmon-themed piece of fiction I wrote and illustrated. In the story, Tyee the great chinook salmon comforts a dying Native American fisherman.
Fraser Design: Concept, writing, design, illustration | Client: Self
Another photo-illustration from the same piece. In this vignette, a migrating salmon undergoes a high tech metamorphosis and attains self-consciousness.
Fraser Design: Concept, writing, design, illustration | Client: Self
Yet another from the same quirky piece. Here Martha Stewart has a little trouble in the kitchen with a rude salmonid alien.
Fraser Design: Concept, writing, design, illustration | Client: Self
As part of a business organization’s efforts to keep members informed, this was used in direct mail.
Fraser Design: Concept, design, illustration | Client: CEIC
Every picture tells a story.
Before the web, printing presses, writing or language; there were humans drawing pictures to represent their world and to reach out. While not as dominant in mass media as in the past, illustration is still a powerful communication tool.
Illustrations can be serious or whimsical. They can simplify complex subjects, nail a marketing message, or be a welcome respite on a crowded page. With a wealth of styles suitable for nearly any medium.
The best part is that people often like illustrations. That’s worth a lot.
