Jim McNeil offers a consulting service for developing designs for specific projects. The design process can involve rendering a business logo into shingles, product representations, or eye-catching exterior and interior wall surfaces. Depending on the complexity, step by step instructions can be developed including full sized templates for the design.
Background
Jim McNeil was born into a roofing family. His father owned a medium sized roofing company in Alberta, Canada and a Cedar shake mill in British Columbia. For many years he admired and searched out decorative shingle examples and in 1977 installed his first project. He went on to design and install many others, including complicated and unique designs of sunsets, trees, vines, product representations and unusual repeating patterns. In 1985 he got involved in computer-aided design & developed thousands of permutations and combinations of not only traditional shaped shingles, but custom and unusual designs as well. His interest in decorative shingles prompted him to take pictures of any decorative project that was of some interest, amassing a large collection of photographs of unusual shingle examples. This collection is now published on a CD-Rom called "Before The Tin Man "
For more information, e-mail; jimmcneil@rogers.com
