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Client: Airco Pools
About: Aaron Asp, a 3rd generation pool guy, found me online while searching for Minneapolis logo design. We met, and he laid out what he was looking for: a classic logo for his pool service company – something would stand up and say quality, style, and denote his attention to detail. He didn’t have a [...]
Press: Jersey Featured in Steamboat Today
Spotted: Steamboat Today newspaper used one of my perennial favorite Orange Peel jerseys in a recent feature on cyclocross racing. Nice work!
Cool: Tokyo Illustrators Society
About: From time to time you find a site that is both visually intriguing and extremely well crafted from a usability perspective. This particular site also houses some fantastic illustrations by Japanese artists. Enter the Tokyo Illustrators Society. One of my favorites is the well known illustrator above, Tatsuro Kiuchi. His clean, retro, humorous illustrations tickle [...]
Client: Erin Peterson
About: Erin has been a client for a good number of years. She is an excellent freelance writer from Minneapolis, specializing in personal finance and personal interest stories. This is the third or fourth redesign/update of her site I have done for her. A couple years back I talked her into the WordPress platform – [...]
Client: Worth Design Build
About: House builder and consumate craftsman Andrew Long started a new home renovation business in 2010 called Worth Design Build. He asked me to build his web site. He had a good sense of how he wanted the site to look and work. We quickly decided WordPress would make a good base for him. After [...]
Client: Cycling Vest for Orange Peel
About: How do you say “coffee colored” in flemish? This high quality cycling vest was made by the venerable Vermarc brand of Belgium. They produce some really cool gear. The vest above is their own brand of stretchy, windproof, fleecy material that is perfect for spring rides. Three pockets are placed in back. It’s warm [...]
INFO: Page Speed Tool
Google has developed another useful tool for as part of it’s Site Performance web master tool suite. This one is all about speed: Page Speed. This one is good for everyone, no matter what type of site you run/own/manage. You simply type in the appropriate URL and ba-da-boom: it gives you a report on page [...]
Client: Hostelling International Chicago
About: Each year Hostelling International Chicago holds a swanky fundraiser for their excellent downtown Chicago hostel. The director, Thomas Applegate, brought me on to design their 2008 invitation. He said it’s an “East meets west theme” of Asian and french influences. I went with it. Client: Hostelling International Chicago, Chicago IL Project: Print design invitation [...]
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: Cycling jersey design for the Orange Peel. The owner Brock is reportedly of Scottish descent. He wanted to commemorate that in a cycling jersey, by sporting the clan plaid. This jersey sold big with the mountain bike crowd. We are bringing it back in 2011 as a long sleeve. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service [...]
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: Cycling jersey design based on an old Design Within Reach ad which the owner’s wife found in a magazine. It sold out in no time. We had both a long and short sleeve version. Unfortunately, it sold out even before I could get a short sleeve version. Snap! Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service, Steamboat [...]
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: Ad design for display on public buses of Steamboat Springs, CO for Orange Peel. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service, Steamboat Springs CO Project: Photography supplied by client. Illustrator.
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: Ad for Orange Peel which ran in the Mountain Gazette, circa 2006. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service, Steamboat Springs, CO Project: Black and white ad utilizing retro fruit ad design. Stock image. Illustrator.
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: Ad design establishing bicycles as nutrition – a long standing belief held by many in Colorado. This ad ran in the Mountain Gazette, 2006. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service, Steamboat Springs, CO Project: I liked this orange peel design which I had designed for Brock years ago and was looking to use somewhere. We [...]
Client: Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride
About: The 2011 Ride Guide for the Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride. This mailing is sent to all past riders, and delivered to bike shops, health clubs and coffee shops all over the midwest. We wanted a clean design, and effective, easy to understand text explaining all of the details of the new Minnesota Gran Fondo [...]
Client: Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride
About: Poster design for the annual Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride. To go in bike shops, coffee shops, health clubs, etc. Client: Hostelling International Minnesota, St. Paul MN Project: 2011 Poster for MIBR and MGF; Midwest regional distribution, Illustrator CS4
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: This ad ran in many publications in 2009, including Mountain Flyer. Concept is based on a cycling jersey design we did in early 2009. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service LLC Project: Print ad design/copy by JJ Weizel. Illustrator CS4.
Client: Minnesota Gran Fondo
About: Logo design for first annual Minnesota Gran Fondo – a sister event to the venerable Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride. Client: Hostelling International Minnesota Project: Logo design/Brand for new bike event; Design in Illustrator CS4
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: 1/4 page ad design for Colorado oriented outdoor magazine Elevation Outdoors. We continued Orange Peel’s use of classic fruit images, comparing bike products to food goods, and nice retro palette. Client: Orange Peel Bicycle Service, Steamboat Springs, CO Project: Ad design for Elevation Magazine, CO – Bike Issue; Ad designed in Illustrator CS4.
Client: Schoolhouse Physical Therapy
About: While on a ski vacation in Steamboat Springs, CO, Ben McDivitt of Schoolhouse Physical Therapy in Deptford, NJ, saw an advertisement on a bus for Orange Peel Bicycle Service in Steamboat. He liked the design. When he got home he looked up the web site. (This is what every advertising designer hopes for!) Through [...]
Client: Moeview.com
About: Moeview.com is a photography blog run by Aaron Molina out of Duluth, MN. He asked me to design a logo for him. I think he has since moved away from this beauty, but it was good while it lasted. Aaron is, incidentally, an extremely adept commercial photographer and may be hired at moeview.com Project: [...]
Client: Hostelling International USA
About: Create a flyer to be distributed locally in Austin, TX to drive folks to attend the travel related programming at HI-USA’s National Council Meeting on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. Design: Jeremy J. Weizel Client: Hostelling International USA Project: I created the flyer in Illustrator with text (a lot of it!) given to me by [...]
Client: Appleby Outdoor Products
Meet Jim Appleby. Jim has been an avid outdoorsman for all of his life. He also happens to be a tinkerer and a gear hound. Put these traits together and you get a guy with plenty of ideas for creative new products for the outdoor enthusiast. Enter Appleby Outdoor Products. I met Jim on a [...]
Client: Tour De Pines Bike Ride
About: Over the past 44 years Hostelling International Minnesota has established itself as one of the premier bicycle event organizers in the state. The Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride, the longest running century ride in Minnesota (and one of the top in the country) generally attracts 5000 dedicated cyclists each spring. 2011 will mark the 45th [...]
Client: Pilgrimage Bikes LLC
About: New logo and web site (wordpress CMS) for Pilgrimage Bike Shop in Minneapolis. Client: Pilgrimage | Richard Meredyk Project: New logo design – taken from a photo Richard took while mountain biking in Utah. New web site to replace his slap dash original – with social network plug-ins and google advertising. We also established [...]
Client: Tortugal Marina Hotel, Guatemala
About: Web site redesign for Tortugal – a marina and hotel on Guatemala’s beautiful Rio Dulce. The client sought a refresh of the Tortugal web presence – one which would highlight the beauty of the area with the wonderful photography of Steve Jost. She wanted to incorporate new web technologies which would simplify the updating [...]
Client: Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride
About: Bi-annual jersey design for the 44th annual Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride. It’s sold out. This was the organization’s highest selling jersey to date. Design: Jeremy Weizel Client: Hostelling International USA Minnesota Council | Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride Project: Full zip, club cut, custom jersey (produced by Voler of CA). State Seal Emblem design (on [...]
Client: Orange Peel Bikes
About: The owner of Orange Peel found a cool Match Box car that he had to use in an advertisement (and eventually, in his web site). He decided it needed to be shot doing a burnout on his classic shop stereo. Photography and Photoshop work provided by a buddy of his in Steamboat. Client: Orange [...]
Willie Nelson Gets My T-shirt
A few years back I was asked to design a business logo and stationary for a new Biodiesel cooperative in Duluth, MN. As a dedicated diesel fan (even still – we drive two VW TDIs) it was a fun project. However, the sweetest part of the deal came when Willie Nelson himself blew into Duluth [...]