Work
The Zoo Crew - A Broader View - Atlanta, GA
Animals at the Zoo inspire kids' imaginations. The design team working on the Zoo Crew Sippy Cup evaluated numerous concept shapes to define the Zoo Crew product's look and feel.
Children love toys that are personal and interactive—the feeling of creating an animal-character sippy cup enlightened the team's research for the user group. The goal was to build an attractive, innovative piece of drinkware that would engage children. A user can break it down for cleaning the chewable pacifier material.
With computers, parametric surface modeling of spheres, cones, and tubes enables the composition of animal forms in CAD software. Mark Feuring designed the animals over an internet video broadcast to the Zoo Crew team in Atlanta. Mark set up dimensions, cup parts, animal characters, and computer concept sketches to define the product's look and feel.
The packaged product was intended for merchandising at numerous retail outlets, such as Barnes & Noble. A Broader View lists retail points on its website where its products are merchandised. The Zoo Crew Sippy Cup was manufactured in China as a complete packaged product.
Zoo Crew comes in three animal forms: a Pig, Rhino, and Panda. Animal names are printed on packages and are different with each color scheme. In addition, an environmental message supporting the care and recognition of animals is printed on the box.
The cups are ergonomic with a spill-proof flip-up silicone straw and a soft outer body. The containers are insulated, easy to hold, clean, safe to use, and fun to play with and show. A whole line of friendly animals will be invading dishwashers across America.
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Stock Clam- Clamshells - St. Louis, MO
Stock Clam was a division of National Plastics; under new ownership, it remained headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Stock Clam manufactures clamshells with circular and square cavities. The clamshells have a place for graphic insert cards to communicate product details.
Stock Clam hired Industrial Designer Mark Feuring to electronically draft over 100 templates for each SC clamshell, using dimension charts and product samples. Mark Feuring also graphically composed the Stock Clam logo, a trademark.
Stock Clam advertises each dimension template as downloadable .jpg and .pdf files on the National Plastic website. In addition, a chart with downloadable links allows a client to view each Stock Clam dimension drawing and see how their product would fit in the clear plastic clamshell package.
The Stock Clam product can now be associated with the drafting templates' outer dimensions, card dimensions, cavity depth, and the length and width of the SC clam's square and circle shapes. In addition, they can download a printable, letter-sized draft image from the Stock Clam site.
Stock Clam now has a database of its manufactured products that interested clients can access. Precise measurements ease the manufacturing directives for both parties. The client now has a way to place sample orders with mathematical options. The communication process makes mailing product samples from Stock Clam to consumers a more viable option.
Introducing: Porta-Fab Renderings - St. Louis, MO
Porta-Fab builds clean rooms, office spaces, and industrial and modular environments. The size and thickness of materials can be explicitly specified in an order. The renderings are two-inch picture tabs on the Porta-Fab website showing hundreds of sample material options they manufacture.
With a box of Porta-Fab samples, designer Mark Feuring completed renderings as a series of visual options for the client. The renderings are 3D-accurate, with CAD grid surface modeling.
Colorful imagery of construction samples allows a site viewer to see the many materials Porta-Fab creates. In addition, practical applications, attributes, and choices are communicated on website pages and linked within an order of recognition.
Illustrations of foam core, sandwich wood panels, and honeycomb-patterned metals are visible to a user visiting the Porta-Fab site. Buildings, retail stations, and airports use Porta-Fab materials for construction. The designation of an internet site organization using computer renderings communicates system priorities to the client as choices made in terms of time and money.
Fitted Pro - La Vida Inc. - Atlanta, GA
"Fitted Pro – Turning Caps into Crowns"
New movement on product 2021... www.capgod.com
Baseball Hats get soiled and stained in the environment. After a time, caps plain wear out if not kept fresh and clean. The Fitted Pro is a device that enables a user to maintain the hat's original shape and look through heat-drying and shaping. Hip-Hop artists and fans take great pride in the look of their caps. As a result, Hip-Hop enthusiasts collect hats for an appealing wardrobe.
The critical variable was creating a structured home appliance with an enthusiastic directive for the unit's function. For example, the Fitted Pro appeals to users who want a foundation to shape their ball cap. With a stretching device and a drying unit, the Fitted Pro can restore your hat to a "new look for your hat."
La Vida Inc. from Atlanta, Georgia, called Industrial Designer Mark Feuring to associate the many sketches of the patent design. Building the Fitted Pro in computer software enabled aesthetic directives to be shown for La Vida Inc. Using Rhino 3D software, Mark created spheres, planes, ovals, cones, cylinders, and tubes to define the shape of the marketed product. La Vida Inc.'s founder helped correlate the many aspects of artistic directives for the Fitted Pro device. In addition, the internal workings were examined from the inside out during the invention's development.
The Fitted Pro is a device that will appeal to many hat-wearing enthusiasts. The product, with innovative shapes, conceptual colors, and a brand identity, appeals to anyone who wants to shape or even stretch a cap after washing.
The Fitted Pro is fun, fresh, and colorful, which makes it appealing. The form and shape of the artistic directives drive the format of the appliance and tool. Everyone loves baseball caps, and the Fitted Pro, with its roots in the mannerisms of Hip Hop artistry, will show a professional profile to anyone who wants to look great in a ball cap.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
"Retail Minneapolis"
Creating a three-dimensional architectural blueprint involves designing community and city perspectives. In addition, architectural renderings are a way to propose size and space planning.
Within the Minneapolis, Minnesota, community districts, the client wanted to establish a foundation for introducing a new restaurant.
An independent contractor hired Mark Feuring to use a computer and create interior design renderings. The visual illustrations were completed in 3D and depicted chairs, tables, refrigerators, stoves, and other kitchen equipment within the allocated space. Mark used an architectural blueprint to create the work. Mark and their artist friend also created the business's brand identity, including hundreds of conceptual artwork images.
3D renderings, completed in the foam-core imagery style of computer visuals, aid the restaurant chain's business proposals. In addition, the black-and-white space-planning studies were made for easy reading in the 3D environment and to correlate problem areas in the floor plan.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Federal Foam Technologies -- Airtex Foam
Introduces the "Stuffing Rod"
Airtex foam sells to consumer user groups at Michaels and Joann Fabrics. Working with sewing personality Bev White and introducing a stuffing-rod tool for teddy-animal stuffed figures is a creative direction for marketing and selling foam.
Federal Foam Technologies Airtex division hired Mark Feuring to create colorful packaging and a branding pattern, which were introduced at various trade show exhibits. The stuffing rod package was designed and sold at JoAnn Fabrics.
The company's decision to research how large the package could or should be in marketplace stores was feasible. The questions arose as follows. First, the package could be significant and contain a teddy animal, a foam in the box, and the stuffing rod. The packaging could include one or two of the three marketing items. Various color schemes and digitized information were used, as Mark Feuring served as the designer/graphic artist, working with a team of professionals at the Airtex headquarters.
We decided on colorful rainbow patterns to offset the animal colors, and this package merchandising is suitable for a wide range of age groups. Kids could work with elders, or older children could use the box independently.
It was an excellent direction for the product shelf to introduce the most minor, cost-efficient route with the primary stuffing rod tool. The stuffing tool stuffs foam items in a pillow cavity.
It was great to see the launch of the nearby Joann fabric stores, where Airtex proudly sells its foam products to consumers. Airtex was a step outside the box in merchandising, marketing to diverse user groups, and selling beyond its very successful niche market.
St. Louis, MO
Alpha Packaging "Alpha-Bits Newsletter
Alpha Packaging is expanding its plastic bottle and jar sales. The company is showcasing many of its product packaging designs. When the company began developing distribution and manufacturing centers in New York and Utah, the human resources department wanted to upgrade the visual elements of its internal newsletter, "Alpha-Bits."
Mark Feuring got in touch with the department within a manufacturing area of St. Louis, MO. The packaging company has an impressive headquarters and wanted to draw on the employee base's successful attitude at its established St. Louis office across its workforce. We worked on the "Alpha Bits" newsletter, highlighting perspectives and positions, and showing how smiles on everyone's faces signaled success at the office, in the manufacturing area, and at company picnics.
The newsletter featured colorful patterns, interesting typography, and significant vocabulary drawn from first-hand accounts by employees. The newsletter presented a new note on page one from the company's president and owner each edition. A title top logo bar called Alpha-Bits with an inset picture on page one—fascinating new products in the newsletter's middle sections. We even worked on interesting employee perspectives on what some people did in their off time.
Mark Feuring composed the pages and layout and handled the printing regimen. We made a list to drive the newsletter with fun, and Mark created a full-page collage from the picnic photos. Mark helped the Human Resources department with the twice-yearly newsletter for four years.
Graphic Design
Clamshell Clients
Having the product you want to merchandise on the retail shelf, with the colors and imagery that reflect your business, is vital to mitigating risk and competing. As an artist, I enjoy creating colorful schemes and computer work guided by your wants and needs. In addition, clamshell packaging is tough and durable and a great way to offer your products to consumers.
Insert artistic cards in visual patterns and bright logos that forecast your products' look and feel. Examples I have worked on include toothpick holders for truck stops, hand warmers for sports and outdoor enthusiasts, fishing packaging in clamshells, and caulk gun caps for glue and silicone tubes. I have worked on many specs to show examples in meetings of the potential package and imagery for business proposals for startups. I have done various color compositions based on first intuition and in-depth studies of graphic design.
I enjoy working with my clients on wants and needs, from the comfort and
advantage of St. Louis, Missouri, to locations across the United States and
abroad. We have communicated electronically, uploading files and video
multimedia streams, and corresponding with 3D printers and
manufacturing outputfacilites
