Attention all you creative professionals looking for more exposure and kudos ... Tonight is CMYK's Final Close on our Professional Portfolio Contest is this evening. Winners will be published this summer in CMYK Vol. #53. Thank you for your time and consideration. Good luck.

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CMYK Pro-Showcase Winners Here!

Please find below the winners of CMYK's first-ever Pro-Showcase, featuring some names you may know, and others you'll want to remember.

CMYK Pro-Showcase Vol. #1 appears in CMYK 52 - on-sale today. 

01
dog + cat posters
Robynne Raye & Shogo Ota, design/illustration
Modern Dog Design Co. (Seattle, WA)

02
Tiger Mom
Yuko Shimizu, illustrator
(New York, NY)
Unpublished cover illustration created for TIME magazine for a feature about Asian tiger moms.

03
Rise Against Poster
Brian Yap, designer
(St. Louis, MO)
Screen-printed poster designed for an in-store record appearance by the band Rise Against.

04
Queen Mary
Megan Mack, photographer
John Cruz, art director
Annie Monroe, model
Pow Club Productions, client
(Santa Monica, CA) Outtake shot from a Mod Vespa shoot.

05
Storm Thru Mississippi (Henry Green)
Scott Bakal, illustrator
Oxford American, client (New York, NY)

06
Atalanta Weller SS12 Look Book
Saty + Pratha, photography and art direction
Rose Agnew, model
(London, UK)
Look book for Atalanta Weller Spring/Summer 2012 collection, based on yachts and ocean travel. Special thanks to Andrew Scott, Material PR.

07
Fat Peach's Bakery
Frank Lin, illustrator
(San Francisco, CA)
Digital illustration created for personal animation/storybook project.

08
Factory Fishing
Joe Scorsone & Alice Drueding, designers
Scorsone/Drueding  (Jenkintown, PA) Factory fishing has decimated our ocean ecosystems risking the extinction of many species. This poster was selected by Ekoplagat 2011 International Exhibition on Conservation and the Environment.

09
Stay Tuned / NPR
Paul Kepple & Raphael Geroni, illustrators
Headcase Design (Philadelphia, PA)
Image for NPR's 2012 calendar. Our piece depicts how NPR has been the source to turn to for all the news happening around the globe, and the vintage radio hints at the long history of NPR and public radio. There is also a subtle reference to the "end of the world‚" predictions for 2012 - potentially the biggest global news of the year!

10
Child Star
Cuyler Smith, illustrator
(Irvine, CA) This project depicts the invasion of privacy that celebrities and their children go through on a daily basis.

11
The Twists
Ting-Ting Yang, photographer
(Columbia, SC) Series photographs to push the boundary of tissue paper. The photographs intend to allow the audience to explore, to feel the color, the rhythm, and the texture of tissue paper, and to think of tissue paper in a brand new perspective.

12
How to Move Giant Animals
Ahwon Min, illustrator
(New York, NY) Imagination of giant elephant within a giant balloon.

13
She is Missed
Richard Krepel, illustrator
(Savannah, GA)
Remembrances of a time gone by and of the woman who once occupied this room.

14
NYC
Marko Prokic, illustrator
(Belgrade, Serbia) There's nothing like New York. And I did it my way.

15
Still Life
Lucia Loiso, photographer
(Pasadena, CA) Still life about the interaction of objects and their environments.

16
Untitled
Britta Kokemor, photographer
Jaime Quinlan, stylist
Marissa Poirier, model
Paulette Marck, makeup
Kylie Nicole, hair
(Alberta, Canada)
Editorial fashion shoot, shot in rural Okotoks Alberta.

17
Birds of a Feather / Flock Together
Nick Wong, photographer
Elyse Moland, hair and makeup
Jessica Chambers, stylist
(Ontario, Canada) Personal promotional project.

18
Seed
Cody Tilson, designer
David Palumbo, art director
(Chicago, IL) Book jacket design and illustration for Rob Ziegler's Seed, published by Night Shade Books.

19
Bearded Ladies Cabaret visual identity
Philip McFee, designer
John Jarboe, contact
Flying Hand Studio (Cleveland, OH)
A comprehensive, adaptable identity system for an up-and-coming alternative theater troupe in Philadelphia, PA.

20
Ron Swanson
Sam Spratt, illustrator
(Brooklyn, NY) Ron Swanson (actor Nick Offerman) from NBC's Parks and Recreation.

21
Lies of Convenience
Irvin Rodriguez, illustrator
(Bronx, NY) Lies of Convenience was an illustration done for the short Sci-Fi story written by Brennan Harvey for the Writers of the Future 27 Anthology.

22
Shutterstock 2011 Trade Show Collateral
Matt Angorn, VP Creative Director
Eric Sams, senior designer
Angela Cho, designer
Adriana Marin, production designer
Daryl Lang, senior copywriter
Dwight Brown, copywriter
(New York, NY)
Shutterstock created custom books targeting designers from different disciplines. We want to empower designers to be successful and create amazing pieces using Shutterstock images and basic design principles.

23
Nike Display Bats
Stuart Rogers & Sam Eckersley, Bat concept and design
Nike Brand Design, display case design
Eric Bauer & Tim Bauer of Laser Magic, Bat engraving
Rogers Eckersley Design (New York, NY)
Concept and design for interactive display bats featuring engraved baseball statistics. Completed for the Nike Fieldhouse at the 2011 College World Series in Omaha.

24
Muni Death Spiral / SF Weekly
Andrew J. Nilsen, art director/designer
(San Francisco, CA)
Cover for a story about the failures of the local public transit system.

ENTER CMYK'S PRO-SHOWCASE VOL. #2 HERE (published this Summer!)

Behold 50 pages of award-winning portfolio work from today's most talented and enterprising emerging creatives -- before they conquer Madison Ave -- inside CMYK Vol. 52 - on-sale today in the CMYK Bookstore and/or at major and select bookstores worldwide.

Over 30 different art schools & departments represented in: art direction, copywriting, graphic design, illustration and photography.

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