"Caution: I'm Hot."

Photo taken at Manning Service Station in Florissant, MO

These vinyl letters have seen so many seasons and so many customers. I loved the distressed “swiss” look.

Web design for TheFriars.org

The Franciscans of the Sacred Heart Province in St. Louis was looking for an updated site design, but wanted to do much of the work themselves. The solution was to build a simple, understated design over a Drupal content management system. This gave them the ability maintain their site content, as well as offer them some other funtionality to help members of the order keep in touch.

Web site design for PandoraSaintLouis.com. Design by Chris Lightner.

A merchant offering a popular line of customized jewelry wanted a site to accompany their new store opening in a local up-scale mall. A unique design had to be created to set them apart from the competition while maintaining graphic standards dictated by the jewelry manufacturer. Visit PandoraSaintLouis.com. This site was built and is maintained by Randall Kopchak.

Cogno brand educational games

St. Louis-based author and award-winning game creator, Stuart Montaldo, hired me to redesign his Cogno board games to catch more eyes. To accomplish the goal, I made the product name very prominent and used complementary color palettes to pop it off the background. I also added some additional dimension and character to the existing logo.

Illustration for the Art St. Louis exhibit, "Room with a View"

This illustration was created to promote an art exhibit entitled “Room with a View” which featured works depicting “views” both external and internal.

Isometric illustration of a bank by Chris Lightner

Isometric illustration of back yard swimming pool by Chris Lightner.

Another isometric rendering built from scale drawings found on a deck builder web site. Looks like fun, but there’s nowhere to sit.

Isometric illustration of a bowing alley by Chris Lightner

This is an isometric illustration base on official dimensions and drawings found on the Internet. Depth and excitement are added to the scale rendering by the scorecard background and the custom emblem in the corner.

Isometric rendering of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" by Chris Lightner

Isometric rendering of Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence. It is a home designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. This illustration was based on architectual drawings found on the Internet and carefully rendered to scale.