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Curtis Parker worked with Jeff Stammen, art director at Christopher Chadbourne & Associates, and created 4 murals for the Tampa Bay History Center. Curtis admits, “Personally, my favorite piece was the Tampa Bay’s Cigar factory illustration”. Apparently, the folks at the Society of Illustrators felt the same way.

Curtis was awarded the silver medal. The creative process went very smoothly, with all the clients and committees involved unanimously agreeing that Curtis’s visual solution perfectly captured the history of Tampa Bay’s Cigar Industry. Jeff Stammen asked the Center’s curators not to change a thing. He also told the client at the museum that, “They were getting more than expected.”

Curtis says, “I have to hand it to the client and the art director for giving me such creative freedom. I enjoyed working with them and the easy working relationship made the project fun.”

Curtis describes finding out about his award, “When Anelle Miller from Society of Illustrators called me, I assured her that my entry check was good. She laughed and told me that seven of my pieces were accepted in the Illustrator’s 52 show and that the mural had won a silver medal. I was blown away. I feel really honored and very lucky.”

You either got it or you don’t. And Von Glitschka’s got it. The always creating, always producing, always moving Mr. Glitschka proved his mettle once again by being accepted into the “Society of Illustrators” for his piece “Tickles the Evil Clown.” Von was also featured in the 47^th Annual Illustration West show for his work with Adobe on the graphic, “Loyal Order of Wormwood”.

Adobe sought Von as a beta tester for its latest Creative Suite of applications, CS4, since he had changed from his usual FreeHand to Illustrator some years back. Working with them during testing opened doors for Von, and when Adobe wanted a graphic story to be sent out with the launch of the CS4 Illustrator program, they commissioned him for original artwork. After giving him complete creative control and trusting him to direct himself, Adobe used Von’s final image for their international software packaging. Anyone who purchases this product will be able to open up Von’s original Ai file and see how he created the image. The demo actually has two pages within the file — one showing the artwork below and another telling the story behind it. The end result: a complete package, both visually and educationally. Much like Von himself.

Tickles the Evil Clown, full image can be viewed here: http://www.floatingbanana.com/artbackwash/EC_Print2.jpg
Show: 51st Annual Society of Illustrators exhibition and publication
Location: New York
Link to Von’s blog post: http://snipurl.com/societyillus

Loyal Order of Wormwood series full images can be viewed here: http://www.floatingbanana.com/artbackwash/LOW_Print2.jpg
Show: Society of Illustrators Los Angeles – Illustration West 47
Location: Los Angeles
Link to Von’s blog post: http://snipurl.com/societyillus