Illustrations for a stop-motion video promoting the book Happiness – The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy by Douglas A. Smith. Once the illustrations were finalized, I went into S77 Video Studio and I "drew" them again in front of a camera. 

Everything – the animals and type – is rendered using a quill pen on bristol board.

Available on Amazon.com.

Update: This won 2 awards from the 2015 Columbus AMA AIM Awards. First place in Illustration and 2nd place in overall Design Elements Category.

© 2015 Mike West. All Rights Reserved.

Book Illustrations for Douglas A Smith, the author of “Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy”. I just received news his new book has just been printed.

These illustrations were rendered using a quill pen on bristol board.

Illustrations © 2020 Mike West. All Rights Reserved.

Brand identity and Marketing for 150 North Third Luxury Apartments.

I took an established brand website and designed a brochure, built branding options for the landing pages, and developed an enormous billboard banner for the side of the building. i took the brand further with new details I proposed. The red stripe won.

Illustrations commissioned for Scott Binger’s 60th Birthday Celebration. Creative Direction: Ricky Gonzalez. It’s a joy working with him.

The Columbus Metropolitan Library just completed a $30 Million renovation. On opening day, the kids who explored the Kid's Area found a special treat - a little door behind a column where a Mouse Family lived. Peeking through the window they would see a mother mouse reading to her child. 

The Carnegie Cafe honors the industrialist who founded more than 2,000 libraries in the USA. I drew his portrait for the logo - and tried to keep it timeless.

Proposed logo for "Books For Breakfast".

Logo for the awards certificate "I Survived the Jerry Hammond Center".  During the renovation of the Main Library we were packed like sardines in a temporary office. Humor triumphed over adversity...

The Arts & College Preparatory Academy is a unique high school with a curriculum that has a strong foundation in the arts. With culture of inclusiveness and respect, students test scores are exemplary. ACPA received a grant to teach their methods to public schools. I designed and hand-painted their logo; designed their stationery and business cards.

Recognition: 2 AIM Awards.
Credits: Art Direction, Illustration, Branding and Identity

Logo, Identity, Brand Standards, Branding.

Designed and Illustrated InfoGraphics for Alliance Data. Designed New Business Proposals, Customer Research Reports, Market Research Reports, Sell Sheets and Power Point Presentations.

Porter Wright's attorneys have deep roots - both in legal knowledge and talent. I illustrated a tree which struck a balance between traditional and a fresh, modern aesthetic.

The roots were customized with areas of expertise in each ad for the city the ad appeared. I designed web banners, equity ads, conceptual ads and collateral. I kept the minimalist classic aesthetic established by my Creative Director, and moved it throughout each piece I designed. I researched, bought stock art and did the retouching for each concept.

Ohio Tuition Trust Authority Web Page Production. This was an enormous project.

I built new pages from templates and illustrated icons for desktop and mobile. When all was finished, I put together the OTTA Digital StyleGuide.

Designs for Bob Evans - Billboards, CRM, Menus and Banners

Once a strategy was mapped out, I was given a wireframe and I designed this layout for desktop and mobile. I created new vector art to match the established icon style.

TV Storyboard Sketches for Fort Pitt Capital Group and WOSU, an NPR Radio Station based here in Columbus, Ohio.

Emoji Icons for the Photo Booth at Fashion Week Columbus. I recreated these icons in Illustrator so they could be enlarged to 15" art. They are deceptively simple looking. There is a LOT of work that goes into them.

Storyboards for Scotts MiracleGro.
The adventures of a deer who sniffed
Deer B Gon, and is driven to run
through some unusual scenarios.
The product is made from herbs
that deer find malodorous, yet
is inoffensive to humans.

With the incredibly detailed and comprehensive Cardinal Health Brand Style Guide, We generated massive amounts of work. The first design is a Value Link Brochure, the second group of designs are Customer Sell Sheets, and the baby girl is sitting on table paper with a pattern I designed and illustrated. We also redesigned their medical device packaging in the new brand identity.

Remember Marker Roughs? These are pencil sketches colorized in Photoshop for Bed Bath & Beyond's monthly circulars. A very accurate representation - colors are sampled from reference photos and dropped in. The Art Director and the Client know exactly what they are getting before they go to a photoshoot.

I was asked to design a logo that would fit in well with Bailey Cavalieri’s established brand identity. I think the use of color here helped merge the logo into their aesthetic. It had to be different enough to call out that something new was happening.