dean proctor studio


I offer professional architectural, landscape, interpretive design and illustration services. Let me help envision, program, design, and illustrate your project.
I am an architect, landscape designer, and illustrator.
I envision ideas, design visions, and help manifest designs.
I have 35 years of professional experience and a lifetime of curiosity, exploration, and sense of purpose.
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I bring my professional and life experience to my client relationships and work. I listen to, am inspired by, and envision with clients. I enjoy co-creating ideas and bringing them to life through design synthesis, hand drawn illustrations, and construction.
* Dean also works for Vandewalle & Associates of Madison, Wisconsin where he has offered his design and illustration services to hundreds of clients including communities, private developers, corporations, and non-profits across the upper Midwest for over 20 years.

If you
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have an idea you want to envision
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a vision you want to design
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a design you want to manifest
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are looking for a sensitive and perceptive approach
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have a project that is meaningful, fun, and creates connection

Clients I've Worked with Include
design
Minnesota State University (Moorhead, Minnesota)
University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa)
Actual Size Artworks (Stoughton, Wisconsin)
Olbrich Gardens (Madison, Wisconsin)
Lowell Elementary School (Madison, Wisconsin)
Holy Wisdom Monastery (Middleton, Wisconsin)
Threshold (Madison, Wisconsin)
Todo Institute (Monkton, Vermont)
World Wildlife Fund (Windhook, Namibia)
Open Door Zen Community (Madison, Wisconsin)
Clark Family (Frankfort, Indiana)
Kauppi/Lehman Family (Madison, Wisconsin)
illustration
Olbrich Gardens (Madison, Wisconsin)
Vandewalle & Associates (Madison/Milwaukee)
Camiros, Ltd. (Chicago, Illinois)
JJR Smithgroup (Madison, Wisconsin)
Montgomery Associates Engineers
Dane County Parks
World Wildlife Fund (Windhook, Namibia)

Architectural
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Home additions and renovations
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Small buildings
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Landscape structures

Interpretive
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Theming and storytelling
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Sites
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Exhibits, installations
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Signage

Landscape
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Master plans
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Courtyards, gardens, plazas
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Site furniture

Graphic
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Documents
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Logos

Birds Eye Perspective
Bird’s eye illustrations communicate project visions, offer comprehensive views of a project’s context, component relationships, created spaces, and architectural character.

Eye-Level Perspective
Eye-level illustrations “put you in the picture” and give the viewer a first-hand experience of the vision. These experiential three-dimensional representations are often the most inspirational graphics.
Technical Illustrations
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Plans
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Elevations and sections
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Details
Informational & Conceptual
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Informational graphics (i.e., diagrams, charts)
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Conceptual graphics (i.e.concept illustration,ideation sketches
Book Illustration
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History
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Landscape exploration
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Children's book