Information

Dave Koehler

dave@davekoehler.com

612.986.0955

I am a creative illustrator and designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
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Experience

6 + years
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Software

Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
ImageReady
Dreamweaver
Flash
Fireworks
Final Cut
Vegas
more
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Employment

Supermango Media
www.supermangomedia.com
Senior Designer / Illustrator
2010 - present

Element Electronics
www.elementelectronics.com

Packaging/Web Designer and Developer
2008-2010

Sun Country Airlines
www.suncountry.com
JTP Foundation
www.jtpfoundation.org
Graphic Designer/Web Manager
2006-2008
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Education

BFA - 2005
University of Wisconsin - Stout

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Personal

Class President - 2 years - HS
Design for 1st Place interactive CD - Multimedia Design Show UW-Stout
Volunteer Teacher for Art Buddies, Art education for underpriveledged children.

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Jason Good's Website

This was a website I designed for comedian Jason Good.  We wanted to make something clean and simple to showcase his schedule, bio and videos.  www.jasongood.net


Ragnar Van

I ran the Ragnar Relay for again this year and I decorated the van with illustrations that didn't really make sense beyond referencing some of the conversations in our van.  It got a lot of good reactions from the other runners.  It's really fun to transform a big white van into a piece of graffiti.

Yes. I have.

The other day my roomate asked me if I've ever thought of what a demon looks like.  I said "No".  Which was stupid.  Everyone's thought of what a demon looks like.  I found this drawing of one from a little while back.

Blue Valentines

Here's a Margaret Kilgallen-style Blue Valentine interperetation I made this year.  I just found it after burying it on a hard drive.  I think I was going to do and illustration for every song on the album but moved on after this one and a half-way finished Somewhere.

Sandstone

I found a place where people draw on the rocky riverbed so I took a sec for my hieroglyph.

Inspiration + Birthday

 

Click HERE for a poster size version (above) and HERE (below).

I just turned 28 while finishing up this new inspirational poster.   As you can probably tell I'm really digging the fox.  The idea came from documentaries I was watching about life in the wild adapting and persevering.  That being said, I made it through the cursed age for rock stars and I'm wishing everyone the best kind of inspiration there is: the kind from the heart more than the head.  I didn't make it these amazing 28 years by doing it any other way.  Best to all as we spin along on this big bold adventure...

Inspirational Posters


Inspiration is a crucial wonderful force and path to happiness.  Inspirational posters make me want to jump down a well.  So today I made a good one for all the folks like me.

You can download the wallpaper HERE

New Podcast Art

A group of New York Comedians asked me to create an illustration for their podcast.  I created this image for Ben Kissel, Ed Larson, Marcus (cupcake) Parks, Kevin Barnett, Holden McNeely and Jackie Zebrowski.  It was incredibly fun to figure out a way to represent them all in the image going only off of the title The Round Table of Gentlemen.  You can listen to the podcast every week at http://roundtableofgentlemen.wordpress.com/

New Album Art




Comedienne Mindy Raf asked me to design a vinyl album cover for her comic altar-ego Leibya Rogers.  This is the cover I finally created in the end.  It was a fun project.

New Illustration Work

Bob Dylan.

North Carolina

New Lettering. Kinston Indians - R. Smeraldo Clubhouse

This is a sign I hand lettered for the Robert Smeraldo Clubhouse in Kinston North Carolina.  The sign is now in the clubhouse at Grainger Stadium.  The sign is dedicated to Robert who passed away last year and was a clubhouse manager for the Indians for many years beforehand.

 

New Web

This is a website I created for environmentally friendly cleaning products called 4EverClean.  The deadline after learning about the project was about a week and a half.  In such a short period of time a great little site was created with the help of Julie Goetzke and Squarespace.  View Site

 

New Apparel


I recently began a new part time role as a designer to focus on T-shirts for the youth market.  These are a few of the first ideas I put down.  I set out to make a slightly phycadellic and mostly fun and classic rock and roll t-shirts.  I completed trend research and try to think what a kid might want to wear when they're only presented a limited choice by a parent on a limited budget.