SHERYL CHAPMAN
Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Sheryl’s work is evocative of vintage advertising posters, branding and surface design. She paints primarily in watercolor and gouache and some images are executed in Adobe Illustrator depending on the use. She spent her youth in the San Francisco Bay Area and now resides with her husband, Scot in Santa Rosa, CA.
Education:
• 1981-1985 California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland California BFA in illustration
• 1983 1985 Teacher’s assistant in artistic anatomy class with Vince Perez
Work History:
1989 to 1993 W3 Associates
• Consulted to major department stores in Japan, and Australia in visual merchandising and display.
• Conceptualized designed and illustrated seasonal themes for interiors of department stores
• Designed shopping bags, gift-wrap, banners and surface architecture
• Designed and illustrated large full-color department store training manuals
• Traveled overseas for consultation, display design and installation.
1994 to 1995 Rocket Science Games
• Drew storyboards and conceptual designs for animated sequences, created and painted backgrounds characters and animated elements, designed titles and credits for CD ROM games: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Rocket Boy.
1997 to 2001 Adhoc Group/Proxicom
Projects Included:
• AOL.com: Many icons, illustrations and background patterns
• Disney World: Web site illustrations
• Disney Blast: Flash animated movie; Sword in the Stone
• Network Solutions: Ad banners, site icons & illustrations
• Oxygen’s Moms Online: Corporate identity, site design & illustrations
• Old Navy: Site design and illustrations
• Proxicom: Internal graphics and illustrations, corporate web site
• Places to Stay: Corporate identity, icons
2001 to 2012 Chapman Design
Cycling
• Bianchi USA: Promotional clothing, bike decals, advertising and branding
• Clif Bar/Luna Bar: Jersey designs for Luna Women’s Mountain-Bike Team and retail clothing
• Ibis Cycles: Corporate identity, collateral and web site design
• Moots Cycles: Posters, promotional clothing, advertisements
• Uranium Cycles: Corporate identity, Jersey Designs
Skiing and other sports
• Tahoe Donner Cross Country: promotional clothing and poster and brochure illustrations
• Skiing Magazine: Editorial Illustrations
Textiles
• EIR Sports: Illustrated catalog covers and clothing tags
• With a Twist: Textile design
• Krimson Klover: Textile design
• Neve Designs: Vintage ski poster inspired textile designs
Events
• Colorado Music Festival: 2002 Program cover, posters and promotional clothing
• 24-hour race series: Clothing, advertising campaigns and posters
• Gourmet Century: Event Posters, clothing and banners
• Tour de Nez: Event Posters, clothing and banners
• Levi Leifheimer’s King Ridge Gran Fondo: Event Posters, clothing and banners
Food and Wine
• Verge Wine: Branding, label designs
• Pizzeria Rosso: permanently displayed canvases in restaurant’s two locations
• Peay Vineyards: Clothing, event posters
• TreViso Restaurant: Brand identity, exterior signage, stationary
• WineZap: Branding, iconography and map illustrations for the WineZap web site
• Caymus Vineyards: Branding, label and bottle design for Mer Soliel Silver
• Mugnaini Wood Burning Ovens: Wall art for Andrea Mugnaini cooking school and cook book
• Raley’s Grocery Stores: Large scale images in stores throughout the Western United States
• Ramini Buffalo Mozzarella: Vintage inspired advertising poster
Everything Else
• City of Santa Rosa: Branding for Downtown, Railroad Square and map design
• Getty Images: Stock illustration featured on CD covers and used to advertise Getty Images
• GreenCine: Branding package for mail order/online DVD movie service
• Hewlett Packard: Designs for web site, cards, ornaments and various crafts
• Pottery Barn, Kids & Teens: Paintings, posters, textile and surface designs
• Sonoma County Waste Management: 2002-2012 Recycling Guide design and illustration
• San Diego Department of Public Works: 2004 builder’s recycling guides, iconography
• Blue Yonder Foundation: Total branding package for non profit flight school
• Urban Green Builders: Branding and collateral