DelphicDesigns' Gallery

B-52 SAC: When You Care Enough To Send The Very Best

DelphicDesigns — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:12:55 GMT

I made this t-shirt under extreme time pressure. To get a stylized mushroom cloud, I used Corel Trace to vector a photo and then turned the vector into a bitmap to blur the edges. Is there a better way to do this? I did the same thing with the vectors on the B-52. For shadows, what is the best way to blur the edges? Turn to bitmap or merge w/ interactive blend? What other trick could I have done w/o reverting to photoshop/painter?

Both sides of a WWII motorcycle

DelphicDesigns — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:23:47 GMT

I created a wooden model of the US Army's WWII WLA motorcycle. The model is made with a Trotec laser. You can see more close up photos at http://www.delphic.com/both-sided-of-us-army-wwii-motorcycle.html . If you have any designs that you think would look great in wood, contact me

F/A-18C Hornet Wood Model

DelphicDesigns — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:00:12 GMT

This is cutaway was drawn in X4 and arount 10K points. We cut the model on a laser and then assemble. You can see close-ups in a flkr slide show at:

http://www.delphic.com/f18-horn18.html

USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier

DelphicDesigns — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:51:54 GMT

The top two images are of the Lexington as she was at the end of World War II with a straight deck and a "Measure 21" camouflage paint scheme. The middle images are of the Hornet after the SCB-27C and SCB-126 modifications. These modifications added the angled flight deck, hull blisters, and the hurricane bow, angled the smokestacks, enlarged elevator, and removed the five inch guns. The bottom image is the Essex class compartment scheme.

This image will be used on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and woodblock print polo shirts. You can see all the Essex Class aircraft carrier products at http://www.delphic.com/esclaica.html

B-52 Woodblock Print Polo Shirt

DelphicDesigns — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:24:07 GMT

Our wood block polo shirts are really unique and probably the best use of our library of vector artwork.

The polo shirts are our best selling products and outsell the traditional dye sub shirt by a factor of 8 to 1. You can see both of them at http://www.delphic.com/boeingb52.html . The design is a large collage of the same elements as in the t-shirts and mugs but are without the fills. I first created line drawings of the B-52 elements for both shirts. I then added gradient fills to one version of the drawing and arranged the elements in a collage in another version. The polo shirt brings in much more revenue dispite the fact that it is significantly easier to draw. I expect the same results with my next project, the Essex Aircraft Carrier (http://www.delphic.com/essex-class-aircraft-carrier-polo-shirt.html) .

We are considering licensing other people's vector artwork for our polo shirt business. If you think that you have artwork that would look great on a polo shirt, please e-mail me.

B-52D Stratofortress Profiles

DelphicDesigns — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:05:57 GMT

Profiles of the B-52D Stratofortress with crew compartments. This artwork is used on coffee mugs, t-shirts, hang tags, and polo shirts. You can see everything that it is used on at http://www.delphic.com/boeingb52.html

B-52 Stratofortress Coffee Mug

DelphicDesigns — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:13:28 GMT

This is a coffee mug that I did for the BUFF veterans. I actually created a series of products based on the same drawings. You can see them at http://www.delphic.com/boeingb52.html.

Spitfire Cutaway Blueprint

DelphicDesigns — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:10:14 GMT

This is the design that we print on t-shirts and coffee mugs. The colors are optimized for dye sublimation, so they are a little over saturated for the web. We are also looking for designs that compliment our existing work.

P-51 Mustang Cutaway Polo Shirt

DelphicDesigns — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:00 GMT

The cutaway drawing was originally done in CorelDraw 10, the current version at the time the drawing was made.

A new wrinkle on a very old process allows us put our line drawings on polo shirts. A laser etches our cutaway drawing on a block that is then used to stain a pattern on to a shirt, like old woodblock printing of yesteryear. The effect is a subtle yet incredibly detailed depiction of an engineering drawing arranged over the whole shirt. The lines of the drawing are the original color of the shirt while the background is washed out.

Left and right sides of WWII Army Motorcycle

DelphicDesigns — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:21:00 GMT

The rugged frame, drum brakes, basic suspension, and large, manual gear shift is a big contrast to today's bikes.

Spitfire Cutaway

DelphicDesigns — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:00 GMT

The cutaway is created from over 3,000 original Supermarine construction blueprints and photographs. The left hand side of the cutaway shows the exterior view of The Old Flying Machine Company's Spitfire Mark IX (MH434) as it was in 1943. The right hand side exposes all of the inner workings of a Spitfire such as the Rolls-Royce Merlin 63 engine, flight controls, radios, etc. Also included are the topview of the aeroplane to depict the wings and the frontview.

Our model cutaways are a hybrid of a model and a print. Every model is constructed with six layers of basswood that are mounted on a baltic blue matte board and sealed behind glass in a cherry finish hardwood frame. Every basswood layer is based on a painstakingly created line drawing that meld hundreds of blueprints and photographs into an accurate slice of the cutaway.

The result is a print that has real depth and shadows or, from a different perspective, is a model that never gets dusty and can be hung from the wall.

We are looking for other titles to print. Please contact me if you have some drawings that would look good in wood.