Gary Ritchie, Designer & Digital Artist

Treating Water in 3d

Interactive 3dThis interactive sales tool was primarily created for use in a trade show booth for display on a wide-aspect plasma screen. It will also be used by the company’s sales team to present the product to potential buyers.

 Filed under: Interface, 3d design

Icons For Every Occasion

Icons, those little clever representations of larger ideas, are one of the most challenging and enjoyable tasks for this designer.

Software, websites, t-shirts all deserve meaningful and attention-getting pictograms. Most icons are designed in a way to be used at any size and resolution, enabling the same artwork to be used in both print and on the screen.

 Filed under: Illustration, Icon

Millennium Pharmacy

Millennium Pharmacy home pageThis site was designed for Cinemanix Productions client, Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc.

In addition to design services, a static site was delivered so the client could incorporate existing server applications.

 Filed under: Interface, Cinemanix

Typeface: Coales Black

Coales Black, version 0.5This is a revival of the type specimin found in my remake of the Save Light, Save Coal poster by Phillip Coles.

 Filed under: Typeface, Work in progress

Name Your Ducks in a Row

Name your files!This is the first in a series of articles on how, as a freelancer, I have improved and optimized some of the more mundane aspects of running my design business.

Repeat business is a blessing for any business owner. But when you are asked to retrieve a project that you worked on 2 years ago you get this sinking feeling inside.

Here, I outline my file naming convention, archival, and retrieval strategy…

 Filed under: Process,

Breathe Easy

This screen explains the features available per mode.Operators of this latest medical ventilator from Respironics can now learn about the advanced features of the device by using the interactive manual.

 Filed under: Interface,