Illustration & Design
Our art director Michael Gibbs has been an Illustrator and designer since the early ’80s. His award-winning artwork has appeared in publications ranging from Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, to the Harvard Business Review, United Airlines, Verizon, and Oracle. Michael is available to design corporate identities — from logos to business cards and brochures, websites, newsletters and book covers, as well as commission illustrations. View his portfolio at www.michaelgibbs.com.
Washington, DC, July 21, 2014 — Inkandescent PR art director and illustrator Michael Glenwood Gibbs has won a coveted honorable mention award from 3×3 Illustration Annual for the cover of PR Rules: The Playbook.
The colorful cover shows eight steps, to reflect the book’s emphasis on the 8 Steps to PR Success, which are called out in the book’s subtitle: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Supersizing Your Small Business With the 8 Steps to PR Success. Atop the eight steps is a silhouetted figure raising a megaphone, out of which pours a riotous cascade of brightly colored flowers—each one unique.
“The cover wonderfully conveys that when entrepreneurs use the 8 Steps to PR Success, their business will be seen and heard,” says Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president of Inkandescent Public Relations, and author of the book.
“We also love the cover design because it’s playful, and we created “PR Rules: The Playbook” to show small-business owners that promoting their business can be fun!”
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Congratulations to illustrator Michael Gibbs, whose artwork appeared today in The New York Times.
The article entitled, “Chasing Opportunity in an Age of Upheaval,” discusses the fact that while a series of extreme events in global financial markets this year have shaken investors’ confidence, some are maintaining his strategy of investing in undervalued companies.
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Illustration and design by Michael Gibbs
Client: Hope Katz Gibbs, freelance writer
Assignment: Since launching her freelance business in 1993, journalist Hope Katz Gibbs worked by phone and word-of-mouth to land assignments with publications ranging from The Washington Post and USA Today to Global Business magazine and Costco’s business magazine, The Costco Connection.
But 15 years into a successful run, the economy began to teeter in 2008 and she decided it was time to ramp up her marketing efforts. “Being married to an illustrator has its benefits,” says Hope, who commissioned her husband Michael Gibbs to design a business card and website to promote her work.
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Illustration and design by Michael Gibbs
Michael Gibbs has been a freelance illustrator since the early ’80s. After majoring in architecture for a year at the University of Maryland, he attended Pratt Institute as a photography major, switching to illustration in his final year.
Michael’s style has evolved from traditional painting to a unique blend of traditional and digital techniques, with frequent forays into purely digital illustration. He was an early devotee of the Macintosh, Photoshop and digital illustration, and has been using the Mac and Photoshop since shortly after they were introduced in 1984. His work has been featured in books on illustration and design skills, including Information Graphics and Visual Clues [Rockport Press] and Step-by-Step Graphics.
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Illustration by Michael Gibbs
In celebration of Barack Obama’s election
Nov. 4, 2008
Medium: Digital
Size: 13 × 19 inches
Signed prints available on his website.
To view Michael’s entire portfolio, visit www.michaelgibbs.com
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CLIENT: Michael Gibbs, Michael Gibbs Illustration & Design
Editing by Hope Katz Gibbs
Design by by Michael Gibbs
ASSIGNMENT: Create promotional portfolio of artwork that is easy to mail and affordable to print.
TARGET AUDIENCE: Art directors, fine art buyers
CHALLENGE: Because Michael has created literally thousands of illustrations over the course of his 30-year illustration career, he was having trouble deciding which pieces to put into his promotional portfolio.
SOLUTION: We decided he should focus on the editorial pieces he’s won awards for in the last 3 years for the first half o the brochure. In the back, we opted to include the posters he was commissioned to create for The Virginia Opera (pictured here), and other theater companies. These, too, have all won awards.
CLIENT FEEDBACK: “I am always slightly nervous to put my work out there, but this brochure proved to be especially effective as a means of drumming up business,” Mike says. “As always, I appreciated Hope’s feedback in choosing the pieces to include, and also in the editing of the copy. This was another nice joint effort.”
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CLIENT: Michael Gibbs, Michael Gibbs Illustration & Design
Editing by Hope Katz Gibbs
Design by by Michael Gibbs
CLIENT: Michael Glenwood, illustrator
M. Glenwood Designs
Fairfax, VA
ASSIGNMENT: Create promotional portfolio of artwork that is easy to mail and affordable to print.
TARGET AUDIENCE: Art directors, fine art buyers
SOLUTION: Hope and Mike helped M. Glenwood select the best images to put into the brochure, then assisted in the design of the pages and editing of the text.
CLIENT FEEDBACK: “I really wanted this promotional piece to show off my best work, but be as elegant and simple as possible,” M. Glenwood said. “I think we accomplished that goal.”
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Illustration by Michael Gibbs
Client: Self published
That one — gets my vote! Obama 2008
Prints available on www.mglenwood.com.
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Illustration by Michael Gibbs
Client: CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Article: This provocative piece asks: Why are schools limiting students’ ability to talk about religion on campus?
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Illustration by Michael Gibbs
Client: University of Idaho
Article: From Gibbs’ stock illustration website, www.stockillustration.com, this illo was the cover of UI’s literary magazine.
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