David Plunkert is an award winning illustrator

Illustrator

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 and graphic designer

Graphic designer

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  based in Baltimore, MD. Plunkert graduated from Shepherd University

Shepherd University

Shepherd University, formerly Shepherd College, is a state-funded university in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States. The University currently serves more than 4,200 students.- Accreditation :...

 in 1987. David is best known for his editorial illustrations and theater posters. His illustrations are highly conceptual, in two styles, Dada

Dada

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 influenced collage

Collage

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 and spare blocky graphics. David Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth co-founded Spur Design, a graphic design and illustration studio, in 1995.

A prolific artist, his work has appeared on the pages of Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...

, Forbes

Forbes

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, GQ, The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, Time

Time (magazine)

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, Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

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, Playboy

Playboy

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 and Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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 magazines, as well as in The New York Times

The New York Times

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and The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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. Plunkert has also worked extensively with publishers and recording artists. Among his credits are the covers for Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky

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’s Case for Democracy and Richard Thompson’s You? me? us?

You? Me? Us?

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Major clients include MTV

MTV

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, Nike

Nike, Inc.

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, and Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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He 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

Library of Congress

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, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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, The University of California Design Museum, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

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 in Hamburg

Hamburg

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He has produced illustrations for the 2000 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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 and for Woodstock 94. In 1995 he created the art for the "Yugo Next"http://www.cruisin66.com/stl/yugonext.html 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."

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."

Interviews and Articles

• Meggs, Philip B., "Edgy Baltimore," Print (magazine)
  Print (magazine)
  The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...
  
  , Vol XLIX:III, May/June 1995
• Graphis 305, Volume 25, September/October 1996
• Showroom, Novum World of Graphic Design, September 2003
• Graphis 351, Volume 60, May/June 2004
• Mooth, Bryn, "The Man with Two Brains," How Design & Illustration, August 2006

External links

• Spur Design
• David Plunkert Illustration
• The Spur Propaganda Gallery has hosted exhibitions by Dan Yaccarino
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   and Charles Burns
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• Spur Stor