Hillebrand Cory needed colorful and enticing linear illustrations to facilitate their print collateral concept for the National Restaurant Association. Von Glitschka developed the visual recipe needed.
Partnering with agencies when it comes to branding is something Von can lend his strategic designing hand to. He helped them achieve the look they were [...]

Cincinnati’s annual Books on the Banks festival has been happily heralded by John Maggard for four years and counting. Timelessly capturing Cincinnati’s retro roots, Maggard takes a new spin on an old favorite. Unveiled this Wednesday, Maggard takes us a few decades back with his beautiful illustration of a classic city street.

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Illustrator John Maggard walks us into the steel heart of the creative designer.
Is “infographics” still a legit term? I’m not sure, since a lot of my reading of late has been occupied with books like “The New Catechism of the Steam Engine”, and my inner engineer is loving every minute of it. Ever see [...]

As a creative collaborator hired gun, Von Glitschka does a lot of collaborative exploratory work for agencies and design firms. Denver based Barnhart called to create a new brand character for a pitch they were developing for their client Tommy Knocker Brewery.
A character development like this represents an entire company and a product line, so [...]

Grain Edit interview series lead to Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love, home of founding father Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell, and illustrator designer Tim Gough. A man who emerges from the cheese steak littered streets of Philly to do one thing: rid the world of dull illustrations.
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Von Glitschka has a knack for taking a client’s idea and turning it into creative profit. Author Mordy Golding asked Von to provide him with a cover for his latest book, “Real World Illustrator”. Always eager to take on a challenge, Von created a cover that demonstrates and showcases new features in [...]

Tim Gough joins the SHA family from Philadelphia, bringing both brotherly love and a passion for silk-screen conceptual art. Tim melds images of spies and monstrous creatures with bursts of color and densely clustered patterns, creating dynamically rich works that are equally inspired by mid-century graphics and the screen-printing process itself.
Tim has been working a [...]

Art Supports Healing, Activates Hope and Promotes Thriving

“Health and wellness” are two key aspects in most everyone’s life. They also happen to be two key markets in today’s communication industry. So while the conventional model finds pharmacies pushing the pills, insurance companies offering protection and hospitals and doctors providing knowledge, the question remains: Is that [...]

Larry Moore is the Orlando Opera’s silent partner, creating posters that visually sing.
The book, which features over 30 paintings created during a 10-year period (3 to 4 paints/posters per season), will be officially launched by end of this month. It is available to purchase through elmodraws@cfl.rr.com and through the Kessler Collection. Larry believes [...]