Fun at work

Skills
Print design
Branding
Illustration

Highlight
I love designing fun projects that lift employee morale.

Poster

Tribune Media Services runs an internal campaign annually to raise money for United Way. One year the theme was “That ’70s United Way Campaign”

Each TMS employee is assigned one of twelve teams, each with a 70’s theme team name.

Kotter’s Class
Ponch Patrol
Speed Racers
Brady Bunchers
Patridge Family
Love Boaters
The Jeffersons
Charlie’s Angeles
Jackson 10
The Ropers
Mork’s Martians
Scooby’s Squad

Teams that reached 100% participation got a day off.

I did the illustrations for each team, along with the logo and all the designs for the collateral.

Kickoff invite

Event closing invite

The closing event was a boat ride on Lake Michigan. The drawing for the Love Boaters came in handy.

Illustrations

First, I did the pencil sketches of each team. Then I traced the sketches in Illustrator.

Event invite

Another year the theme was “The Sweet Taste of Success,” with the teams having a candy theme.

The teams were:

Lemonheads
Lifesavers
Lollipops
Gummi Bears
Smarties
Pez
Bottlecaps
Tootsie Rolls
Junior Mints
Bottlecaps
Snowcaps
Pixy Stix

Poster

Dick Tracy Ping Pong Tournament

When our CEO said we were having a company ping pong tournament, I couldn’t resist having Dick Tracy be part of the logo. (Tribune Content Agency owns and syndicates Dick Tracy)

Before the tournament, each participant drew a Dick Tracy rogue from a hat. That rogue became the participant’s identity throughout the tournament.