elcome to my special links list. This page actually contains several links to pages that I would otherwise lose track of if it weren't for this little feature. My client list has grown so fast, that I found it necessary to create something that would augment my brain which was getting entirely too full of useless URLs, lyrics to old Beachboys tunes, and the combination to my gym locker in high school is still stuck in there like some cerebral Post-It! Note. Also, like any personal Web site, one begins accumulating more pages than one knows what to do with. Pretty soon the number exceeds what you can practically navigate to from the menubar up top. What's cool about this directory is its alphabetical, and for visitors who haven't been here in a while, but vaguely remember a page they used to visit on my site, you can scan the list below and something may jog your memory.

hotdog.jpg (6996 bytes)This page used to contain favorite Web sites, but these days, who has the time to surf? Nonetheless, I've retained my old rating system just to let you know there are some cool pages on my site that you otherwise wouldn't see (many are exclusive client pages I maintain), and some so-so, but you might find these digital cul-de-sacs kind of interesting.

Five weenies tells you that this is an interesting page. One wienie says, "Needs some work," or "Why is this page still here?"

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Swearing in ceremonies for the new mayor of Dubuque, Roy Buol. Gary was there getting shots for his friends on the City Council. Enjoy.

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Our Favorite Tour Guides

Introducing a new feature on our website we call "Our Favorite Tour Guides." Above, the Jugg Sisters of Nashville. Click here.

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Grape Harvest

Photographs from this year's grape harvest at Stone Cliff Vineyards and Winery. Gary and Linda both design labels for Bob and Nan Smith, and this year we pitched in and helped with the harvest. Click here.

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Emotion Pictures

"I have moved more earnestly into film making. I enjoy it more than any artistic or creative enterprise I've ever known. It's visual storytelling, and it can be a most compelling and emotional medium." Click here to see Gary's latest film for United Way Services of Dubuque.

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Gary just posted a new feature on this website called, "Gary Olsen's Production Notebook." It consists of short movie clips captured with a small video camera while on location. Their purpose is to provide supplimental instruction for teachers and students. Click here.

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Vacation Pictures

Gary and Linda ventured on a "Craft Cruise" with Carol Duvall and Company on the Carnival Miracle. Click on the image above to come aboard and see the photos and a movie of the voyage.

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Family Photos

A photo colleciton Gary calls, "Family Values" was taken at the beautiful Dubuque Arboretum. Click here.

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Dig this: Gary takes a painting course from Donna Dewberry!
The famous artist whose "One-Stroke" painting method made popular on Public Television, held a certification course in Springfield, Illinois this past summer, and Gary's wife, Linda, was enrolled (she's an accomplished decorative painter). Gary decided to tag along, and filled an empty space in the class. See the photos of this incredible experience. "I'll never paint foliage the same way again," says Gary. Click here.

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The Grand Excursion... Dubuque, Iowa

Visit Gary's studio for a look at Gary's celebrating Dubuque's Grand Excursion River Boat event held this past June. See close-ups of the piece and learn more about this celebration of the Upper Mississippi River's Renaissance. Click here. Prints of this painting are currently on sale at galleries and frame shops throughout Dubuque. Proceeds from this sale go to the Gateway Project.

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Magic Frogs:

Gary and Linda worked on an exciting collaborative art project for the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in celebration of their incredible live frogs exhibit. Click here to see a series of motion pictures of the decorating process.

   

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The Richwoods Knights Logo I do a lot of logos gor schools, and this is one of my best. This Peoria, Illinois school has a logo here that is flexible for a variety of applications including screen printing, signage, embroidery, and print publishing.

As a bonus, here's a link to the scratch page I used to explore variations on this logo with the client. It's pretty cool.

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The Ark logo A terrific logo I designed for an organization in our town. See how this design evolved from a simple drawing to a finished project.

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Dubuque 365 TV I developed a logo for Dubuque365.com, a city-wide information service Web site for Dubuque. I came up with this jazzy logo for a TV production venture I'm involved in. It's pretty cool.

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Dubuque Community School District This is where I'm the Web master. This is the most complex project I've ever done austensibly by myself. All the graphics in the site are mine. I built the pages, designed the navigation and interaction, performed and produced TV and Audio programs within the site, and I maintain each and every one of the nearly 1500 pages.

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Clarke Multimedia Bootcamp Headquarters Page It's my class home page. It needs some work, but it's getting the job done.

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This is the Hansel Realty Logo Page It is a page I'm particularly proud of because it represents how I manage logo files for customers like Dave Hansel. Not only do I design a logo, look and feel for his company, but I provide a storage and dispensing facility online of logo files continually updated for the many vendors that need logos for various applications. Now they can get them from the Web. No messy disks.

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The International Broadcasters Idea Bank Logo Page It's the same kind of deal but for this international organization of broadcasters who exchange ideas for promotions. One of my best logos.

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The Jack Jenney Music Festival Image Archive It's a magnificent collection of graphics I scanned or photographed and keep in perpetuity on the Web for this annual event.

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More Jack Jenney Material Just some logo work. I think this is a pretty good effort, but I'm going to redesign the logo for next year's festival because a vertical design like this is kind of difficult to apply in some cases. I don't know. Anyway, the name is changing to the The Jack Jenney Music Festival. The variety of music will be a little broader, which is a good thing.

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Kirchhoff Distributing Company Logo Page The Budweiser distributor in our area asked me to redo their logo. Great job since I like beer (yes, I went to college), and the Kirchhoffs are wonderful to work with. This was a totally collaborative effort, and the logo must be evocative of their valuable trademarks in the beverage business (brand is everything). I can hardly wait to see this logo on the side a a big beer truck. Let's celebrate with a Bud.

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KSVP This is a radio station logo I'm working on.

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KTZA Radio This is a radio station logo I'm working on.

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KPZE Radio This is another radio station logo

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RAMS Booster Club speaks for itself.

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Galena Cellars Lawlor Family Label Project I'm doing wine labels for this venerable winemaker in Galena, Illinois. Here are some samples I'm working on actually involving portraits of Chris Lawlor's children.

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Everyone's Neighborhood Logo Work Page I think this is pretty good as an example of how I work with clients on trademark and logo design.

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Millennium The Millenium Project includes material developed while I was working on this incredible collage that took six months to build. It was an incredible success, and one of my most popular commercial pieces. Click here to see this valuable archive.

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Music & More Logo Program It's a kick-ass logo I designed for my friend who started a company to bring music and bands to our town. I love how the guitar is cut out of the lettering in this. I drew the guitar from scratch.

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Picturama Home Page It serves as a launch site to a growing collection of photo albums I'm creating on my site. I call them "Picturamas."

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Radio Dubuque is the graphic management page I maintain for this owner of three radio stations in the Dubuque market. This is a terrific example of how I work with my clients using the Internet as a virtual studio. My clients really enjoy the flexibility and convenience of this service I provide. Go here and find out what I'm talking about.

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Rotary Club Graphic Files I'm the graphic designer for our Rotary Club. I get to do some interesting things since we are a very active club in our city. We sponsor more events than any other service club. If I'm not designing a new logo or graphic, I'm doing posters, signage, you name it. I enjoy this aspect of my community life because I have no boundaries and can exercise as much creativity as I want.

Gary Olsen's Motion Pictures I'm just getting into this field. I have a passion for digital video. I have at my disposal just terrific equipment, and I'm shooting video every chance I get, especially in my capacity with the Dubuque School District. In any event, I plan on expanding my capabilities and repertoir in this art form. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop and I'm editing video on it which is extremely cool. More on this is available at my Gary Olsen Motion Pictures Web page.

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Stained Glass Project This was an epic project that involved Bryce Parks and featuring some of the finest examples of stained glass in the city.

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A Client Pitch that Failed I was asked by a local ski area for some graphic assistance on a brochure and possible logo redesign, but things didn't work out. Sometimes this happens, but we move on. I left the pitch page up on the Web because I think it's a wonderful example of how I work with clients by wire. I thought we did a good job on this, but sometimes things just don't go like you hoped they would. I hate to waste, so I present it here as a learning aid for my classes in Web and Advertising Design at Clarke College. It remains handy on the Web where students can bring it up and study it.

Summerfest Logo Page Cool logo I did for SummerFest more than a year ago, and they've been using it ever since.

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Swingfest Logo Page This is my first crack at redesigning the logo for the annual event called Swingfest. I love this because it looks like a logo on a '56 Chevy Belair.

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The Mark Twain Desk You'll enjoy this diary of my work on an interesting furniture decorating project I performed last winter.

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Web Work Groups: This is a new concept I've developed with my buddy, Charlie Ellis from the School District. He came up with the name, and I've expanded on it to suit my various purposes. Web Workgroups are a virtual meeting space where people can gather and share ideas, papers, graphics, anything that can be stored on a server. Check out some of these.

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Rotary Club Web Workgroup Wine Auction and Dance Project.

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United Clinical Labs Page This is the client page for a book cover I'm doing for the Lab Manual. We do this every few years entirely by wire.


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