Client study - BlueArc

BlueArc manufacture extremely high-end file servers specially designed to facillitate the fast flow of large amounts of data.

I was employed by BlueArc for several years as their Graphic Design Manager. Roles included the design of the company website, corporate staionery, photographic art direction and later, after a renaming and rebranding caused by the venture capital investment, the creation of technical illustrations.

Technical illustration
The technical illustrations fell in to two groups; internal assembly documents and client usage documentation. The majority of the former can not be reproduced due to Non-disclosure agreements.
The user documentation required many illustrations to show how to set up and maintain the product. The servers were expensive and the documentation needed to be of a similar quality.
These were all drawn using Freehand and Illustrator. Some images, mainly product images were drawn directly with the server itself on the desk in front of me. Some of the more complex assembly and usage diagrams would be drawn from a photograph. A picture would be taken of the product being put together or used and then imported into the illustration software before drawing. This is far simpler then trying to balance parts of machinery in the correct position.

Work undertaken while personally employed by this company