Roger Reiman - Reference Images

Mural Design - Reference Materials

In our initial introduction to the Roger Reiman-Kewanee Walldog Mural Project, we were given only Roger's name and a few reference images. Below is the collection of images provided to us at that time.

Additional Reference Images

Our research produced several more images that we are able to draw inspiration from to begin the mural design process.

Dianne and Dennis Packee, who now own Reiman Harley-Davidson, have been a great resource for us. They were willing to share with us quite a few images in their collection. 

We also made contact with the American Motorcycle Association and they were generous enough to send us several high quality images from Roger's illustrious racing career.

Our final image source was Harley-Davidson. As I have already mentioned, I am co-leading this project with Ted Turner, a designer at Harley-Davidson. SInce Roger Reiman rode for the Harley-Davidson racing team, and set speed records in their machines, they had several images in the Archives that Ted was able to acquire for our project.

Below is a composite image of most of the images we were able to collect from the sources mentioned above.

 

Now that we have an extensive collection of images to pull inspiration from, and a host of magazine and newspaper articles to fill in the details, it is time to start the ideation phase.

Ideation is the process of forming new ideas. In this case we will be trying to create a large-scale visual image that depicts the life of Roger Reiman using the reference materials we have assembled through the research phase.

Next up we start the mural design process.