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Randal Birkey needed a business card to communicate his architectural illustration business information during the 1980’s. This Frank Lloyd Wright house design was illustrated in a line and color pencil on yellow “trash” drawing paper, then combined with hand lettered text and printed as a 4-color business card.

At this time in my career I was working out of the design studio space of ComCorp, Inc. a design firm located at 742 N. Wells and owned by a friend named George Kubricht. We were a half block south of Moody Bible Institute in the River North area. The building is now an art gallery.

Headstand Media met with design firm HBN Design, to review second round logo and identity refinements on November 8, 2007. From these, Randal and Benjamin selected two final design directions for final refinement. We plan to make the final ogo and identity decision the week of November 12th.

Randal Birkey was contracted by an ad agency in the 1980’s to create an illustrated logo for potential use in advertising a new drug product. Randal used his architectural drafting skills to create a blueprint look, with color pencil shading to add depth and color.

This is a collection of brand identity and logo designs created by Benjamin Nelson in the past few years. Below are logos for: Cedars Mediterranean Grill, Upper Room, True Pilsner, Jerk Alert Productions, one-eighty, Awana, Digital Punch TV.

LootPlanet is a Web 2.0 start-up who’s goal was to create campus based classified communities for each major college/university across the United States. They desired a logo that would be modern, cool and memorable to college students and university communities.

Below is a sample of the logos Benjamin Nelson created for LootPlanet. The logo in color was the final logo chosen. Today, Benjamin provides Chicago Logo Design services through Headstand Media.

Back in 2002, Benjamin Nelson worked at Click Commerce in Chicago, and he headed up the process of redesigning the corporate logo. Click Commerce is a leading provider of Channel Management software and services. They requested a clean, modern, simple logo that would reflect their position within the web community. Today, Benjamin provides Chicago Logo Design services through Headstand Media.

Below is a sample of some of the logos that Benjamin created.