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Mark Bult
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I am primarily a designer, not an illustrator. I prefer to hire the illustrators. Sometimes, however, I get to stretch myself and do some illustration work for my clients.

Since I don’t regularly practice this side of my craft, I never really developed a singular style, like many illustrators do. Instead I’ve dabbled in many styles. Jack of all trades, master of none, I guess.

Here’s a sampling of various illustrations from over the years.

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Fitbit · Fitness tech startup
We developed several different illustration styles for various Fitbit communications needs. We used a technical illustration style for some packaging and how-to guides, using simple line drawings that would scale well. As we added more product features to the devices and mobile apps, we needed to educate the users on how to use them, so I proposed a “Fitbit 101” online guide, using screenshots and drawings to illustrate it.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator · 2010
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Fitbit · Fitness tech startup
At the same time Fitbit was adding more features to the devices, the company was beginning to ship products internationally, which meant we needed to develop cost-effective packaging. I created a text-less, illustrated startup guide to be inserted in the Zip product box, so we could use it in any boxes shipped around the world. The above photo is a press-check sheet, with multiple guides printed on one large sheet, which would later be cut horizontally and folded into a small booklet.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator · 2012
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DarkSky · Nonprofit
A series of educational photo-illustrations for International Dark Sky Week showing some of the causes and effects of light pollution.
Digital · Adobe Photoshop · 2020–2023

“Bortle Scale” — The Bortle Scale (top image) is one of the ways by which light pollution is measured. Cities, towns, and suburbs cause the majority of light pollution, although rural places don’t get a pass — overlighting or poorly aimed lighting causes light pollution everywhere. This image was chosen by the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History, used in an exhibit called Lights Out, running in Washington DC from 2023 until December 2025.

“Shielded vs. Unshielded Lights”, “Light Pollution Harms Wildlife” — Our cities and towns are filled with light fixtures that spill light upward into the sky, where it’s not only useless to humans, but harmful to many species like bats, moths, owls, and more.
 
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Thanx · Marketing tech startup
Editorial / blog and product illustrations.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator · 2015
 
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CNET Download.com · Tech
Illustration for an ad in Motor Trend magazine that ran when iPods still looked like that. I wrote the copy too.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2004
 
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DarkSky · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for the International Dark Sky Places program which certifies places where light pollution is reduced and you can see the naturally starry sky.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2023
 
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Rodney Open · Event
Illustration / branding for a weekend golf tourney.
Traditional, digital · Pen + paper, Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 1998
 
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Tamarack Rubicon · Tech
Manual cover illustration for a powerful PC search tool for developers.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator · 1997
 
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Thanx · Marketing tech startup
Product illustrations for a customer loyalty app. I wrote the copy too.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator · 2015
 
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Coalition · Insurance tech
Product illustrations for a starup’s website.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2017
 
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e|news · self-promotion
Digital illustration for an old version of my website.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · Circa 2006
 
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Acterra · Environmental nonprofit
Editorial illustration for a newsletter cover story about the NGO’s high-school-age volunteers.
Traditional collage, then scanned · Circa 2002
 
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Convergence · Media
Editorial illustration for an article about Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush on a progressive news website.
Digital · Adobe Photoshop · Circa 2017
 
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“The two Mikes” · The Heinlein Journal · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for an article comparing the messianic parallels between two characters in two science fiction books, both named Mike. Valentine Michael Smith is the first human born on Mars, while Mycroft Holmes (Mike to his friends) is the sentient computer that runs Luna City.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2020
 
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The Heinlein Journal · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for an article analyzing the genetic human-engineering speculations in Robert Heinlein’s 1942 science fiction novel, Beyond this Horizon.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2020
 
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“Who was Virginia Perdue?” · The Heinlein Journal · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for an article about a female mystery writer in the 1930s and ’40s, of which little biographical information is known — herself now a mystery lost to the mists of pre-Internet history.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · 2020
 
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“Heinlein and the Navy Hymn” · The Heinlein Journal · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for an article about a stanza added to the US Navy Hymn by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, who was also a naval man.
Digital · Adobe Photoshop · 2022
 
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“Heinlein in the Comics” · The Heinlein Journal · Nonprofit
Editorial illustration for an analysis of various comic book and graphic novel interpretations of Heinlein’s works, from the 1950s through the 21st Century.
Digital · DALL·E, Photoshop · 2024
 
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“Bloodlines” · Personal
Illustration for a friend’s novel about an estranged family and South Africa.
Digital · Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop · Circa 2012
 
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Untitled · Personal
A portrait I drew a long time ago. I used to have more time to do this sort of thing.
White pencil on black artboard · Circa 1995
 
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