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Come
visit our neighbors Peter and Cathy Kohl at their
new KC
Buffalo Co. website and see why Kansas Citians
are beating a path to their door for their highly
nutritious and responsibly grown and processed meat
products.
Also, visit our new woodworking
business The
Country Woodworker where we craft high quality
heirloom period and reproduction antique furniture
from sold wood which we recycle from storm damaged
urban timber.
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Virtually no illustration project is too
daunting for us at Light Fast Graphics. Some of the
samples below will attest to the level of
difficulty accomplished. With thousands of hours at
the computer in programs such as Illustrator,
FreeHand and Photoshop, we can quickly and
efficiently produce simple to extremely complex
drawings and meet tight deadlines and critical
review cycles.
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This was a house design for a
functional light table which
could double as a drafting table
and provide even illumination of
objects for product photography.
With Macromedia's FreeHand, parts
can be designed and dimensioned
using the grid as one illustrates
the various parts required to
build the object. From the final
design the quantity and dimension
of each part and the material
list takes only minutes to
complete. In addition, skewing
the drawn parts or assemblies
allows the illustrator to quickly
build a three dimensional view of
the completed object or its parts
or to provide the client with an
expanded parts view for shop,
parts, or safety manuals.
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The Illustration shown here in
detail and full size original
were created in Macromedia
FreeHand and is one of a series
of anodized aluminum electronic
enclosures. The entire line was
easily drawn for the manufacturer
by simply modifying the original
drawing to the size specs of each
variant in the product line.
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This design was the flagship
of a line of screen printed
apparel products marketed through
a rep at the Minneapolis Gift
Mart. It was one of almost a
dozen designs that are still
selling at lighthouse museums and
gift shops around the shores of
Lake Superior. Other custom
pieces were derived especially
for customer to help increase
market share and shelf space at a
variety of specialty shops. The
"Wilding Designs" trade mark line
included designs depicting old
fishing lures, loons, northern
wildflowers, lighthouses, wolves
and more.
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The vintage camera at left was
drawn in Macromedia FreHand as a
self promotion and portfolio
piece.
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This self promotion piece was
created as two vector
illustrations in Macromedia
FreeHand. First the plans for the
boat were completed using a
photograph of a scale model as a
reference and traditional scaling
methods for the take-offs.
The pocket watch was drawn
from a scanned 3x5 black and
white print and the colors
gleaned from the actual watch.
The two drawings were layered
together using Adobe Photoshop.
Three layers were needed after
rasterizing the illustrations,
the watch was separated into the
shadow and watch elements. The
shadow layer was placed in
Photoshop and set to multiply the
background; the background was
tinted to appear like old paper
in selective color and distorted
using perspective in the
transform menu; the watch was
placed on the top layer with
transparency set to normal.
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This illustration was also
created in Macromedia FreeHand
for a licensee of the Disney
Company. The client was extremely
critical of matching original
Disney drawn art and the provided
sample -- especially the lamp.
FreeHand allowed building a
multiple, compound blend which
nailed the color on the first
round of approval. Next the
client wanted the final art bled
and trapped with the metallic
gold overprinting the cmyk.
Again, with FreeHand this was
accomplished in little over an
hour and the layout set up for
four up and a die plate provided
in the file.
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This 1938 Chevy Panel Truck
with Mac Tools colors and
trademarks was illustratred from
the Ertl™ die cast model
being given as an incentive
during their 1997 season. It was
illustrated in Macromedia
FreeHand and used in the
advertising and promotional
materials sent to customers
announcing the promotion in early
1997.
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Links to great artists, photographers,
designers and communication arts resources:
Seargeant's
Online Art Gallery and Studio
Belfiore
Design
Link
Master
John
LaRoe
The
Country Woodworker
Contact tom@lightfastgraphics.com Telephone: 816
331-8807
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25, 2002, lightfastgraphics.com
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