Echo Chernik
Encyclopedia
Echo Chernik is an American Art Nouveau
artist
. 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 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.
Chernik's early work included 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 Mage: The Ascension
, developed by Phil Brucato
, and Vampire: The Masquerade
.
Moving 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), Disney, Regal Cinemas, 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 Unicorn Chronicles
and Color Your own Tarot
; and Llewellyn Worldwide
(cover art for a Silver Ravenwolf
series, among others). Chernik's contributions to music promotion include designing Arlo Guthrie
's 40th Anniversary Alice's Restaurant Massacree tour poster, displayed in 2005 at Carnegie Hall
; and illustrating a poster for the Dave Matthews Band
.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. Her motif is an art nouveau
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
/jugendstil influenced style, with elaborate decorative borders, women (or pin-up girls) with flowing and entwining hair, sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
.
Early life
Chernik was born in Ellington, ConnecticutEllington, Connecticut
Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Ellington was incorporated in May, 1786, from East Windsor. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 12,921...
. She graduated summa cum laude from Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
in 1995 with a BFA in Communication Design | Illustration. She is a mainstream advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
and publishing illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
, best known for advertisements and poster
Poster
A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be...
design.
Career
Shadowrun
Shadowrun is a role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy fiction, horror, and detective fiction.The original game has spawned...
), White Wolf Game Studios, Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
and Chaosium
Chaosium
Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods...
. The earliest influences of art nouveau can be found in her works for Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic...
, developed by Phil Brucato
Phil Brucato
"Satyr" Phil Brucato is an American writer and game designer. He is best known for his work with White Wolf, Inc., including role-playing games such as Mage: The Ascension, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade...
, and Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....
.
Moving into the mainstream advertising and publishing world, Chernik has worked on campaigns for Camel Cigarettes, Miller Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company
The Miller Brewing Company is an American beer brewing company owned by the United Kingdom-based SABMiller. Its regional headquarters are located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the company has brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; Eden, North Carolina; Fort Worth, Texas;...
, Keystone (beer brand)
Keystone (beer brand)
Keystone beer is a product of the Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado. It was first introduced in Chico, California in September 1989. Keystone can be found in can, keg, and occasionally bottled form...
, DeKuyper
DeKuyper
DeKuyper Royal Distillers is a privately held Dutch company in the business of manufacturing and marketing distilled spirits and liqueurs.The company was begun in 1695 by Petrus De Kuyper as a manufacturer of barrels and casks used in the transportation of spirits and beer...
Liquors, Gran Centenario Plata, Hype Manufacturing (Nascar), Disney, Regal Cinemas, The State of Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
Tourism, The City of New Orleans - Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras
The terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday...
logo, Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears, officially named Sears, Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of department stores which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century...
, RocketDog Shoes, Trek Bicycle Corporation
Trek Bicycle Corporation
Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles...
- (Commemorating Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support...
's 5th Consecutive Le Tour de France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
win). Publishing houses include: Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
Publishers; Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
, whose titles include The Unicorn Chronicles
The Unicorn Chronicles
The Unicorn Chronicles consists of four young adult fantasy novels by Bruce Coville.The first book, Into the Land of the Unicorns, introduces the main character, Cara Hunter, and her grandmother, Ivy Morris...
and Color Your own Tarot
Tarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
; and Llewellyn Worldwide
Llewellyn Worldwide
Llewellyn Worldwide is a New Age publisher, currently based in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Llewellyn's mission is to "serve the trade and consumers worldwide with options and tools for exploring new worlds of mind & spirit, thereby aiding in the quests of expanded human potential,...
(cover art for a Silver Ravenwolf
Silver RavenWolf
Silver RavenWolf , born Jenine E. Trayer, is an American author and lecturer who focuses on Neopaganism. She is married and has four children. She currently resides in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.- Biography :...
series, among others). Chernik's contributions to music promotion include designing Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...
's 40th Anniversary Alice's Restaurant Massacree tour poster, displayed in 2005 at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
; and illustrating a poster for the Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
.
Awards
- JUDGE 2011 Origins Awards
- SILVER 2011 ENnie Awards "Best RPG Cover" - Attitude
- FIRST PLACE 2010 Origins Award "Best RPG Related" - Attitude
- FIRST PLACE 2009 Origins Award "Best Contemporary" - Pie Cthulhu
- SECOND PLACE 2009 Origins Award "Best Contemporary" - Queen of Hearts
- THIRD PLACE 2009 Origins Award "Fans' Choice" - Queen of Hearts
- GOLD 2008 37th Annual Creativity Awards - El Conquistador
- BRONZE 2008 Creative Shake Design Awards - Arlo Guthrie's Lost World Tour
- HONORABLE MENTION 2008 37th Annual Creativity Awards - Hype Girl 2
- HONORABLE MENTION 2008 37th Annual Creativity Awards - Connecticut Operas
- GOLD 2007 Create Magazine - The Spirit of Navigation
- GOLD 2007 Create Magazine - Rocket Dog Shoes
- SILVER 2007 Create Magazine - Tosca
- GOLD 2007 Portfolios.com - Soot Sucks!
- SILVER 2007 Portfolios.com - Tosca
- COVER ART FOR AWARDS ISSUE 2006 Create Magazine - Hype Girl
- GOLD 2006 Create Magazine - Hype Girl
- GOLD 2006 Portfolios.com "HP's Best Illustration" - Hype Girl
- GOLD 2006 Portfolios.com "Gold" - Hype Girl
- GOLD 2006 Aphrodisia "Best in Category - Pin-Up" - Hype Girl
Notable Illustrations
- USPS Frank Sinatra POP display materials 2009
- Miller Mardi Gras 2010 Hispanic Heritage Month Posters
- Bellagio Las Vegas 2009 New Year's Eve Invitation
- Keystone Light advertising Illustration
- Publix brand Hula Hula Macadamia Nut Ice Cream
- Marzetti Otria Brand Illustrations
- Celestial Seasonings Green Tea Collection (10 boxes)
- Shadowrun WAR!, Almanac and Attitude Cover Art
- Connecticut Opera 2007-8 Season
- Tour Poster for Alice's RestaurantAlice's Restaurant"Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is a musical monologue by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie released on his 1967 album Alice's Restaurant. The song is one of Guthrie's most prominent works, based on a true incident in his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the...
40th Anniversary Tour | Arlo GuthrieArlo GuthrieArlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice... - Tour Poster for Dave Matthews BandDave Matthews BandDave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
- Rocket Dog Shoes Campaign Poster
- Hype Manufacturing Posters for NascarNASCARThe National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
- Trek Bicycle CorporationTrek Bicycle CorporationTrek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles...
Poster Commemorating Lance ArmstrongLance ArmstrongLance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support... - Mardi GrasMardi GrasThe terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday...
Poster for Miller Brewing CompanyMiller Brewing CompanyThe Miller Brewing Company is an American beer brewing company owned by the United Kingdom-based SABMiller. Its regional headquarters are located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the company has brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; Eden, North Carolina; Fort Worth, Texas;... - Official Mardi GrasMardi GrasThe terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday...
Logo design for the City of New OrleansCity of New OrleansThe City of New Orleans is a nightly passenger train operated by Amtrak which travels between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Amtrak's formation in 1971, the train was operated by the Illinois Central Railroad along the same route . The train currently operates on a 19½ hour... - IllinoisIllinoisIllinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
Tourism poster celebrating IllinoisIllinoisIllinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
Wine
See also
- Alphonse Mucha - A major influence in Echo's early works.
- David GoinesDavid GoinesDavid Lance Goines is an American artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, the oldest of eight children. His father was a civil engineer and his mother a calligrapher and artist.During the 1960s, Goines enrolled at the University of...
- Contemporary, influential poster designer.