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As an Illustrator/Designer Ric Tringali has supplied illustrations , for magazine covers, editorial illustrations, book and product illustrations clients such as the Kingsford Charcoal, KC Masterpiece, Dreyer's Ice Cream, Bank of America and others. He was born in Algonac, Michigan and he trained there at the Kendall College of Art and Design, and later graduating with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute


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Microsoft, Kirkland, WA, Halo Interface Re-design
halo.xbox.com/en-us





Water Cooler, San Francisco, CA
Kabam.com


AntiqueShoppe, Vallejo, CA
antiqueshoppe.com
I was recently contracted by the AntiqueShoppe to develop their new portal website.  They wanted to get the website up and running, and had a very tight deadline.  They had tried a couple of web developers in the past and although competent they weren’t happy with the result.  So I went to work designing a portal type website, with a lot of stickiness to help attract and captivate their viewer.  To that end I developed several blog type sites to drive up their traffic to accelerate their business in the short term....




Absolute Health, Fairfield, CA
myabsolutehealth.com
Dr. Chanana contacted me to help launch her new practice and healthplan. We met extensively over several moths working out the strategy, planing the facility, working on logo designs and colateral material to help launch her new practice and medical care plan...






Whitney Design, Industrial Design & Engineering,
IDEA Corporation , San Francisco 
whitney-design.com/
Heading the team of IDEAS industrial designers we went to work to design a product that would break a long standing patent held by Baejer and come up with an exclusive product that could compete head to head wigh Baejer   The result was a product that embodied the features of the original, occupied the same footprint, was more aesthetically pleasing, cheaper to manufacture and most importantly was patentable.


Consumer Electronics Client,
Industrial Design, Engineering
IDEA Corporation, San Francisco
ideaproductdesign.com
A major developer of consumer electronics products came to IDEA to develop a new line of products in one of their verticals. They wanted the product to embody the brand equity that their had built up in a similar line of products but to be distinctly different...

Wag Hotel Products, Lick-to-Go, San Francisco
waghotels.com

Wag Hotels wanted to develop a line of pet care products. They already carried a complete line of quality products at their retail locations, but the owner Ritu wanted more...











Wag Hotel Products,
Dog Treat Dispenser,
IDEA Corporation, San Francisco
Dealing with pet owners everyday, it was clear that their needs were not being met by the products already on the market.

eStudioSF, Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco 
deloitte.com/
Deloitte Consulting was attempting to develop a spin-off an eStudio that would capture some of the business that they were losing the boutique startups emerging in the eBusiness space. 

Siebel eCRM Life Sciences Demo , Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco 
Developed a series of Flash Demos illustrating Deloitte Consultings eCRM solutions for Live Sciences, and PAYOR Customer Relationships for the health Industr...
 
New Jersey Child Welfare Information System
Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco 
The solution a state of the art dynamic portal, linking the in-house social workers with field interviewers via a mobile network utilizing PDA technology.

Johnsons Wax Professional
Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco, B2B Website, Web Re-design
Faced with the new challenges of the internet this company, a spin-off of Johnsons Wax was presented the special challenge of reinventing its identity







Super Bombad Racing, Lucas Learning
.lucaslearning.com/
I was contacted mid project by Lucas Learning, as a texture artist, to complete the work begun by their development team. The task was to match the style and tone set out in the prototype, relying heavily on the visual material from the Star Wars Series. 

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Packaging & Graphic Design
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I have worked as a graphic designer, Illustrator and freelance artist in the bay area since 1978. During that time I have been involved in implementing media solutions for a wide variety of clients. My clients have included Fortune 500 Companies, non-profits, high-tech start-ups in the bay area and worldwide.

AbsolutelyNew, San Francisco
absolutelynew.com

While at AbsolutelyNew I worked directly with inventors to help realize their vision, and bring their products to market. AbsolutelyNew is uniquely positioned to sreen the latest innovations. Inventors come to them with their ideas which they will develop and represent. But in addition to this seeing the ideas in their infancy allowed them to not only develop, but market the best under their own product line.

AbsolutelyNew is a consumer goods company that partners with inventors to launch their exciting new products — into stores, catalogs, online retailers, and television shopping channels. We also help innovators launch new devices and technologies into businesses, hospitals and factories.. 



 



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I am experienced in all aspects of design, inclulding advertising, branding, and brand development, computer graphic design, concept, graphic design, illustration, logos and logo design,. In addition I have an extensive background in printing and the four color process, and can either assist you in your printing needs or provided excellent printedmaterials for any application, website lauches and promotional material, product brochures, packaging, and signature graphics.