Mark Monlux
Freelance Illustrator / Grand PooBah
WA, USA
253-471-0820
be.net/markmonlux
Mark Monlux is an illustrator whose style exudes friendly whimsy. He also has a well-trained ability guiding the public’s eye, creating memorable impressions that are favorable. This ability was honed over decades of hands-on experience incorporating into his work advertising and marketing techniques that appeal to the public. The ability to gather a favorable impression that leaves a smile and a warm feeling in the heart is a unique skill. So is the ability to listen to multiple conversations and grab the common thought threads amongst them to provide an image even before the request for that image is made by the client. Creating iconic imagery from a live dialog and locating the keynotes on which to capture in a presentation is a unique skill set. Monlux is well versed in pre-press production, press production, various printers and their capabilities, and communication with printers. Monlux has orchestrated or worked on projects that involved a variety of specialty printers and fabricators of display materials and is familiar with many of the options and regional resources available.
Work Experience
Monlux Illustation
Grand PooBah
The sole proprietor of Monlux Illustration, over three decades as a freelance commercial artist.
Clientele
• Alaska Airlines, Artist Logic Inc., Auction Watch, Bear Creek Toys, Bellevue Athletic Club, Bingo Bugle, Blair/Brooks Design, Blue Cross, Bruce Biever, Carnation, CGI Ciccariello Graphics, Inc., Cobalt Group, Colgate-Palmolive, Construx, Corixa, Covidien, Creative Department, D3D, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Drake Cooper, John Draper, Eating Well Magazine, Eco-Lab, Elliott Sales, ExtensionEngine Gargoyle Design, Get Fit Foods, Gravity Design, GTCF Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Heart Advertising, HP Hewlett Packard, Ingersol-Rand, IFF International Flavors & Fragrances, Kimberly Clark, Koi USA, Kount, Lift Phd, Medtronic, Met Life, Microsoft, NFPA National Fire Protection Association, Nautilus Design, Neibart Group, NIPPC Northwest & Intermountain Power Producer Coalition, Oberto, Price & Associates, Radioframe Networks, Reynolds and Reynolds, Rockwell-Collins, Sargentia, Scratch Media, Smith and Stark, Strategyn, Taylor Made, True Blue, Toronto Dominion, Paul S. Schmidt, Sly & Associates, Susan and Co., SWBR Switching Barriers, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma Art Museum, Viking Ski Shop, Virginia Mason, and Workman Publishing
Clientele
• Alaska Airlines, Artist Logic Inc., Auction Watch, Bear Creek Toys, Bellevue Athletic Club, Bingo Bugle, Blair/Brooks Design, Blue Cross, Bruce Biever, Carnation, CGI Ciccariello Graphics, Inc., Cobalt Group, Colgate-Palmolive, Construx, Corixa, Covidien, Creative Department, D3D, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Drake Cooper, John Draper, Eating Well Magazine, Eco-Lab, Elliott Sales, ExtensionEngine Gargoyle Design, Get Fit Foods, Gravity Design, GTCF Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Heart Advertising, HP Hewlett Packard, Ingersol-Rand, IFF International Flavors & Fragrances, Kimberly Clark, Koi USA, Kount, Lift Phd, Medtronic, Met Life, Microsoft, NFPA National Fire Protection Association, Nautilus Design, Neibart Group, NIPPC Northwest & Intermountain Power Producer Coalition, Oberto, Price & Associates, Radioframe Networks, Reynolds and Reynolds, Rockwell-Collins, Sargentia, Scratch Media, Smith and Stark, Strategyn, Taylor Made, True Blue, Toronto Dominion, Paul S. Schmidt, Sly & Associates, Susan and Co., SWBR Switching Barriers, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma Art Museum, Viking Ski Shop, Virginia Mason, and Workman Publishing
August 1985
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Washington, United States
Education
Central Washington University
Bachelor of Graphic Art
September 1981
- August 1985
Ellensburg, Washington, United States
Awards
Marketing Award
Illustration - Silver
2016
Tacoma Art Commission
Whiteboard Video Public Service Announcements
2013
Cartoonists Northwest
Golden Toonie
2009
Society Of Technical Communication
Award of Excellence - Technical Art
1998
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite,
Graphic Recording,
Procreate,
Sketchnoting,
Videoscribing,