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Contributors
Moments of Inspiration
Pop art
Illustrator Michael Gibbs likes taking ideas and turning them
into images. Just don't ask him where his ideas originate. He's
not really sure. "They just pop into my head," says Gibbs, who
illustrated "Clock Wise," Melissa
Hendricks' story about research on the circadian clock. To make
an illustration, he starts off with the concept, does an acrylic
painting, scans it, then digitally manipulates that image until
he gets the image he had envisioned. "I don't like the look of
most purely digital art," says Gibbs, whose work has appeared in
Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, and The Washington
Post. Gibbs lives in Clifton, Virginia, with his wife and two
children.
When first things last
To illustrate "Necessary Steps," our
cover story on gender equity, Jon Krause wanted to convey
inequity in a manner that was smart and subtle. The words
"vision" and "balance" were very much on his mind. "Eyes and a
scale were literally the first thing that came into my head,"
says Krause, who paints in acrylics on wood for his
illustrations. "They just ended up working." Krause's work has
appeared in Time, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall
Street Journal, and The New York Times. He lives in
Philadelphia with his beagle, Pickles. — MB
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