Emu Systems, Inc.
"Googlehumper" Composite for "Darwin" promotion.

For the introduction of Emu System's digital audio recording system, Darwin, the company wanted a striking and humorous image that would help communicate their position that conventional tape was an evolutionary dead end.

So the "Googlehumper", as they called it, was born.
OK, not really born.

Working from a sketched idea of a cartoon-like bird, several comps were developed and the concept was refined. The resulting image is a composite of ten or eleven images.

The image was quite popular so the image was re-worked into a four-foot tall in-store sales display.

Brochure Designer: Nancy Enge (Ajax Design)
Photo-Illustration: Craig Cheatham, Pacific Image Works