Echo Chernik

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Echo Chernik and Arlo Guthrie -Carnegie Hall 2005
Echo Chernik and Arlo Guthrie -Carnegie Hall 2005

Echo Chernik, maiden name McKinney, (born August 30, 1973) is an American Art Nouveau artist.

Born in Ellington, Connecticut, Chernik graduated summa cum laude from Pratt Institute in 1995 with a BFA in Communication Design | Illustration. She is a mainstream advertising and publishing illustrator, best known for advertisements and poster design. Her motif is an art nouveau | jugendstil influenced style, with elaborate decorative borders, women (or pin-up girls) with flowing and entwining hair, sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography. She is now living in Cape Coral, Florida.[1][2]

Her early work included hundreds of interior black and white illustrations for mainstream game companies such as FanPro (Shadowrun), White Wolf Game Studios, Wizards of the Coast and Chaosium. The earliest influences of art nouveau can be found in her works for Mage: The Ascension, developed by Phil Brucato, and Vampire: The Masquerade.[2][3], She is also listed in the RPG section of that database as Heather McKinney Chernik [4],

Moving quickly into the mainstream advertising and publishing world, Chernik has worked on campaigns for Camel Cigarettes, Miller Brewing Company, Keystone (beer brand), DeKuyper Liquors, Gran Centenario Plata, Hype Manufacturing (Nascar), The State of Illinois Tourism, The City of New Orleans - Mardi Gras logo, Sears, RocketDog Shoes, Trek Bicycle Corporation - (Commemorating Lance Armstrong's 5th Consecutive Le Tour de France win). Publishing houses include: Random House Publishers; Penguin Books, whose titles include The The Unicorn Chronicles and Color Your own Tarot; and Llewellyn Worldwide (cover art for a Silver Ravenwolf series, among others). Among music fans, Chernik is known as the designer for Arlo Guthrie's 40th Anniversary Alice's Restaurant Massacree tour poster, displayed in 2005 at Carnegie Hall; as well as illustrating a poster for the Dave Matthews Band.[2]

She married Lazarus Chernik in 1999 and has two daughters.

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[edit] Awards

  • GOLD 2007 Create Magazine - Soot Sucks!
  • SILVER 2007 Create Magazine - Tosca
  • GOLD 2006 Create Magazine - Hype Girl Published on Nov/Dec 2006 cover
  • GOLD 2006 Aphrodisia "Best in Category - Pin-Up" - Hype Girl
  • GOLD 2006 Portfolios.com "HP's Best Illustration" - Hype Girl

[edit] Notable Illustrations

[edit] See also

  • Alphonse Mucha - A major influence in Echo's early works.[2]
  • David Goines - Contemporary, influential poster designer.
  • Graphic artists guild - An important resource for contemporary artists | Chernik is a member.

[edit] External links

[edit] News Articles

[edit] References

  1. ^ Artist: Echo-x. Member profiles. ONE·MODEL·PLACE (2006-11-16). Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  2. ^ a b c d Holland, Mary-Beth (2005-04-11). Echo Chernik. Member Spotlights. The Alternative Pick. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  3. ^ Echo Chernik. Art Gallery. Pen & Paper. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
  4. ^ Heather McKinney Chernik. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
  • Case Study: Echo Chernik Photoshop Creative Magazine [1]; Issue 28 pp 24-25
  • The Luminary Illustrations of Echo Chernik TalentSpeaks feature article; Author: AJ West; March 2007
  • Artpreneurship Author: Ghahramani, Adam; Published: Velegant Media LLC May 2007; Editor: Rogers, Brett D.; pp. 127-131
  • Hearing Echo Author: Kozkis, Bob; Summer 2004 South Florida issue; Published: Create Magazine issue #6; Editor: Brown, Jerry; Article: pp. 66-68