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Illustrators Ireland Awards 2004
December 10 2004On December 10th, 2004, the IGI Illustratorsireland.com Awards was held in the United Arts Club in Dublin’s City Centre. For the third year, the results have revealed a set of winners that has surprised all. All the category winners have been taken from the ‘natural media’ end of the illustration scale; with very little digital work gaining winning amounts of points from the distinguished panel of judges.
The ceremony was preceded by a lecture from Brian Grimwood, English Illustrator of international acclaim and co-founder of the CIA (Central Illustration Agency) in London. View the winning entries…
Grimwood’s fascinating talk was accompanied by a slide show of his work and was a valuable experience for all who attended. His tales of working on up to four line illustrations a day for British magazines pointed to a marked decline in the use of illustration in latter years, most likely as a result of the burgeoning stock photography industry. All agreed, however, that Grimwood’s simple execution and communication of clever ideas show that the mere search for the ‘bottom line’ that stock is offering to designers is a bland alley.
This year (and once again) the IGI secured a real coup with its judging panel: The panel of four judges, appointed for their standing in the creative world included: Milton Glaser founder of Milton Glaser Inc. [USA], Mitch Shostak, Principal of Shostak Studio [USA], Phil Tarver, Creative Director of XM Advertising [UK] and the aforementioned Brian Grimwood. Once again the IGI has coralled a stellar panel of industry heavyweights to jury its members’ work.
Milton Glaser:
To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man - one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work. A consummate New Yorker, Glaser was born in 1929 in New York City and attended the famed High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union. In 1959 Glaser established the legendary Pushpin Studios with Seymour Chwast and Edward Sorel, arguably the first multimedia graphic design firm in the country. After opening his own office in 1974, Glaser went on to produce some of the most recognizable and enduring graphics of our time, including Bob Dylan’s portrait for his greatest hits record and the immortal ‘I love NY’ logo. A graphic designer of stellar reputation!
Mitch Shostak:
Mitch Shostak began his career in publication design in 1973, after graduating from The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
He was the executive art director of PC Magazine, senior art director of Business Week and art director for the business sections of The New York Times. In 1987, he founded Shostak Design, Inc. and designed publications for Money, The New York Times, People, Playboy, Scholastic, and Sports Illustrated. Mitch moved to San Francisco in 1991 as Art Director of PC World. He returned to New York City in July 1993 and established Shostak Studios, Inc.
In addition to running the studio Mitch sits on the Board of Directors for the Society of Publication Designers and was a speaker at SPD’s 2003 conference in NYC as well as the ICON 3 Illustration Conference in Philadelphia. He has taught graduate-level courses at Fordham University
and Radcliffe College and conducted workshops for IBM.
Phil Tarver:
Creative Director of award winning London advertising agency, CCG.XM. After graduating with an MA in Graphic Design, Philip worked at Marshall Cavendish as Senior Multimedia Designer where he supervised the production and development of initial conceptual ideas through to a finished product. Prior to joining XM London, he was the Multimedia Art Director at Eaglemoss Publications where he was responsible for setting up the multimedia department for a large partwork publishing company and for the creative direction of the art department.
Since joining XM London in 1997, Philip has worked on a variety of new media projects for global clients such as Shell International, British American Tobacco, Allied Domecq and HSBC.
Brian Grimwood:
Brian Grimwood has been credited by Print Magazine as having changed the look of British Illustration. He has worked for most of the popular magazines worldwide and has become one of Europes most innovative and influential illustrators.
In 1983 he founded The Central Illustration Agency and more recently opened a multimedia agency representing new illustrators and animators, CIIA.
The Award winners are:
Best Advertising Illustration
Winner: PJ Lynch for his watercolour poster illustration for Opera Ireland. Art Director: Lisa Irvine
Best Design Illustration
Winner: Ed Miliano for his gouache and airbrush illustration for the Office of Public Works, of a 16th century cattle raid. Used in an exhibition centre in Ross Castle, Killarney. Client: Jonathan Mason, Heritage Planning and Design.
Best Editorial Illustration
Winner: Kevin McSherry for his illustration in acrylics, ‘Vive la Revolution!’ for Irish Catering Magazine. Editor, Frank Corr.
Best Book Illustration
Annie West won the Best Illustrated Book section with her delightful work for Cearc an Phrompa, published by Clo Mhaigh Eo.
Best Unpublished/Self-Promtional Illustration
Winner: Kevin McSherry for his illustration in oils entitled ‘The Polymusoharmonium Player, 1901’.
Best Overall Illustration
Winner: PJ. Lynch with his poster for Opera Ireland.
