NEWS
For
Immediate Release
Dave Sullivan Illustration of a Fanciful
Chicago; December 6, 2012 — A design director’s novel idea of using humanized
animals for a magazine cover to depict scenes from ordinary life brilliantly
executed by an accomplished illustrator from Massachusetts helped the
University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) alumni magazine
garner two “Excellence In Design”
awards at this year’s Council for Advancement
and Support of Education Region 6 (CASE VI) Conference taking place here Dec.
9-11.
The Summer 2012 issue of UNO Magazine garnered both a Silver award for the wraparound cover design of its Summer 2012 issue created by Design Director Heidi Mihelich of Emspace Group and executed by master illustrator Dave Sullivan, and a Bronze specifically for the illustration, both in the category Communications & Marketing, Excellence In Design.
Sullivan’s artwork for the complex
project reflecting
that issue’s theme of “No Place Like Home” was used as the front and back covers, and sections of the
busy town scene were also referenced as interior spots accompanying a number of
feature
articles.
“Several buildings and landmarks from the
UNO campus were depicted with slice-of-life scenes interspersed throughout the
piece. All in all, I assembled a few dozen specifications into the one large
cityscape scene,” Sullivan explains.
“Of particular importance was the style
of rendering,” he notes. “Heidi Mihelich requested I
draw all of the characters in this somewhat fanciful
“I employed my usual cartoon line art style with color tones and textures added digitally. It was great fun
creating the animal characters. I chose to stick mainly with mammals and
generally naturalistic, human-like proportions to clearly depict the intricate
interactions.”
The UNO alumni magazine also won a Bronze award in Periodicals Design for
overall design consistency from issue to issue.
CASE VI is one of eight regional districts, comprised
of nearly 200 institutions from
Dave Sullivan is an illustrator of books, magazines,
newspapers, ads, and Internet-based projects with over three decades of
experience in publishing, advertising and editorial illustration. He has
created thousands of illustrations for an international array of diverse clientele
from The
Sullivan’s various styles of illustration are on
display at http://www.davesullivan.net/, with links to all of his work available at http://www.davesullivan.net/links.html. He can be reached at the.illustrator@celticweb.com.
An image of the wraparound UNO Magazine Summer 2012
cover illustration is available at http://unoalumni.org/view.image?Id=14228.
More information about the UNO Alumni Association
2012 CASE VI awards is available at http://unoalumni.org/case2012dec.
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