Monsanto House of the Future illustration

illustration — February 16, 2010

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My illustration of the Monsanto House of the Future at ’50s Disneyland.

SketchUp

spartan sled radio drawing

illustration — January 26, 2010

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I visited Denver’s Vance Kirkland Museum and saw this Art Deco radio that I just had to draw for fun.

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It is specifically a 1937 Spartan 558 Sled Radio!

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By the way, the RRS Feed is now working, and take a peek at my other website, TheDenverEye.com.

Sinclair Gas Station drawing

denver, illustration — January 16, 2010

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Sinclair Gas Station drawing, based on the station still standing on South Broadway (as of this writing) in Denver, built sometime in the 1950s, I presume.

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Sinclair made AM radios that looked like these pumps. Let me know if you have an extra one!

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Variations on this gas station are peppered all over the Denver area. The all have that same roof over the pumps.

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SketchUp

Cooney House

florida, illustration — December 31, 2009

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Just got back from Sarasota, and I didn’t get any good pictures!

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But I did get to tour a great place, The Cooney House by Sarasota School of Architecture architect Tim Siebert, designed 1967.

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I woke up the following day and decided to try to draw this up from memory, while it was still fresh!

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A very interesting house! Those are floor to ceiling doors, they must be 9 feet or so in height!

flw jacob’s house

illustration — December 12, 2009

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3D drawing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs House, a Usonian design from 1937.

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I was looking at some of the illustrations by SketchUp illustrator Jeff Thielemier, and thought I should try to draw a complicated Usonian home.

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I draw very quickly. 3 hours last Friday, 1 hour Saturday, and a couple of more hours tonight.

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I’ll probably add a few more details to the interior, then upload it to the 3D Warehouse.

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Google Sketchup

romeo’s times square drawing

coffee shops, illustration — December 2, 2009

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sketchup, coreldraw

white spot drawing

coffee shops, denver, illustration — November 8, 2009

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Drawing of White Spot on Alameda, in Denver.

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This is now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II.

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white spot - davie’s chuck wagon II

coffee shops, denver, photos — November 1, 2009

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This is an old White Spot location, circa early-1960s, now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II. (Pictures of Davies’ Chuck Wagon I can be found here.)

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The White Spots were designed by Armet & Davis, the firm famous for their Los Angeles coffee shop architecture, a style referred to as Googie. (Though the Googie’s restaurant itself was designed by John Lautner)

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This design is different than the other Denver White Spots, I guess I would call this a butterly roof with an additional fold.

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I like the way they had the White Spot signposts penetrate the rooflines.

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The interior has been refurbished over the years, but you can still appreciate the vaulted ceilings and flowing counters. I have also posted pictures of another former White Spot on my new site, the Denver Eye.

mod apartment building

denver, photos — October 22, 2009

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There was a time, not that long ago, when Capitol Hill in Denver had many ’50s/’60s apartment buildings with similar original color schemes such as this. Sadly, they have been all painted beige and neutralized.

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This building, over in the same former University of Colorado hospital area as the previous two posts, still has it’s original coloring. I am going to take a wild shot in the dark and date this building from around 1965.

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This building also features a wonderful inviting concrete sheel entranceway.

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I have to wonder if this shell is the work of Denver engineer Milo Ketchum.

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Design Onscreen: Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

denver — October 10, 2009

Just came back from watching this amazing documentary at the Denver Art Musuem as part of theĀ Design Onscreen series of films.

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