ECHO CHERNIK

'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] Echo Chernik
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 , developed by Phil Brucato, and .^[2], She is also listed in the RPG section of that database as Heather McKinney Chernik ^[3],
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.
She married Lazarus Chernik in 1999 and has two daughters.

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Awards

Notable Illustrations

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References

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

Notable Illustrations

★ Connecticut Opera 2007-8 Season

★ Tour Poster for Alice's Restaurant 40th Anniversary Tour | Arlo Guthrie

★ Tour Poster for Dave Matthews Band

★ Rocket Dog Shoes Campaign Poster

★ Hype Manufacturing Posters for Nascar

★ Trek Bicycle Corporation Poster Commemorating Lance Armstrong

★ Mardi Gras Poster for Miller Brewing Company

★ Official Mardi Gras Logo design for the City of New Orleans

★ Illinois Tourism poster celebrating Illinois Wine

See also

★ Alphonse Mucha - A major influence in Echo's early works.

★ David Goines - Contemporary, influential poster designer.

★ Graphic artists guild - An important resource for contemporary artists | Chernik is a member.

External links

★ Echo-x - The official Echo Chernik website

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References

1. Artist: Echo-x
2. Echo Chernik
3. Heather McKinney Chernik


★ '' The Luminary Illustrations of Echo Chernik'' TalentSpeaks feature article; Author: Gabriel Chapman; 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