Jack Amos Graphic Designer

Zlin paint scheme drawings

Dave Kaberry brought his white and blue Zlin 50L to the United States from England last summer to compete in the World Aerobatic Championships. Over the winter I was asked to give some thought to upgrading the tired paint scheme. He and his partner wanted me to visually straighten some engineering lines that would in turn make the plane stand out better for the judges to score. All the primary developmental drawings were done in PowerCADD.

Many of the logos I develop begin life as combinations of primary shapes in PowerCADD that get saved out as Illustrator files and are then imported into PageMaker for type additions. Others are screen-captured and converted to Photoshop for additional work.

Jack Amos

Jack Amos at the '95 IAC Nationals in the Sukhoi SU-29 Russian acrobatic airplane.

Jack Amos is an graphic designer in Richmond, Virginia, and he's a close friend and associate of WildTools author Alfred Scott. He works with Photoshop, PowerCADD, Illustrator and InDesign for most of his work. Telephone: (804) 354-5522, Fax: (804) 354-1974. www.jackamos.com. Email: chezjack@jackamos.com

The finished painted airplane.

More drawings by Jack Amos

USA Fitness logo was begun in PowerCADD, then went through Illustrator to PageMaker,
was printed out and rescanned in Photoshop where colors were added before completion.

The Heartwood Rebuilders logo is one that was begun and completed in PowerCADD.

Major regional developmental projects (such as Williamsburg's Kingsmill and Northern Virginia's Hillandale) often show up at my door as architect's floor plans, elevations, topos, paint chips, brick samples, shingle materials and more. Developers want to presell their projects as much, and as authentically as possible before ground is broken.

Alfred Scott and I schemed all new program icons for the MacWorld introduction of PowerDraw 4, as well as the "nuclear" splash screen. Nearly ten years later they're still in use; that's virtually unheard of in the "here today, gone tomorrow" world of software development.