David Plunkert

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David Plunkert is an American illustrator and graphic designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. [1] He is best known for his editorial illustrations and theater posters. His illustrations are highly conceptual, in two styles, Dada influenced collage and spare blocky graphics.

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Education

Plunkert graduated from Shepherd University in 1987.

Career

Plunkert and his wife Joyce Hesselberth co-founded Spur Design, a graphic design and illustration studio, in 1995. [2]

Plunkert's work has appeared on the pages of Esquire , Forbes , GQ , The New Yorker , Time , Reader's Digest , Playboy and Rolling Stone magazines, as well as in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . Plunkert has also worked extensively with publishers and recording artists. Among his credits are the covers for Natan Sharansky’s Case for Democracy and Richard Thompson’s You? me? us? Major clients have included MTV, Nike, and Capitol Records.

Plunkert was included in the group show “America Illustrata” which completed its international tour in 2000. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The University of California Design Museum, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.

Plunkert has produced illustrations for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and for Woodstock 94. In 1995 he created the art for the "Yugo Next" exhibition poster at New York's Grand Central Terminal. The National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC described "Yugo Next" as "one of the greatest ever examples of public art."

On August 17, 2017, Plunkert tweeted his cover art for the following week's edition of The New Yorker. The illustration, entitled Blowhard, depicted U.S. president Donald Trump sitting in a sailboat, blowing a sail that was styled as a KKK hood. The artwork, a reaction to Trump's remarks on the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was widely covered in U.S. news media. [3] [4] Plunkert stated, "President Trump's weak pushback to hate groups – as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters – compelled me to take up my pen." [5]

Awards and recognition

In 2009, Plunkert received the Best Poster Award at the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) for the poster he designed for Antidote Films' documentary The Dungeon Masters . [6]

In 2011 Plunkert was inducted into the Alliance Graphique Internationale. He has received medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York.

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Interviews and articles

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References

  1. ↑ Newman, Robert (April 16, 2015). "Illustrator Profile - David Plunkert: "Learn to think as well as draw"". American Illustration - American Photography. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "dave plunkert interview". designboom . January 10, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ Wattles, Jackie (August 17, 2017). "Top magazines take on Trump and hate". CNN. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Cavna, Michael (August 17, 2017). "Next week's striking New Yorker cover shows Trump traveling with the KKK". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ Holmes, Oliver (August 18, 2017). "New Yorker and Economist covers slam Trump's defence of white supremacists". The Guardian . Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ McNary, Dave (March 17, 2009). "SXSW festival winners announced". Variety . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
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