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Michael Gibbs, Michael Gibbs Illustration & Design

ILLUSTRATION + DESIGN

Michael Gibbs is the designer of Be Inkandescent Magazine and the PR website, Inkandesent Public Relations, and Inkandescent Networking.

An award-winning designer and illustrator, he has been freelancing for some of the nation’s most well-known publications and companies since attending Pratt Institute as a photography and illustration major in the mid-70’s.

His artwork has appeared in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth Magazine, Consumer Reports, Harvard Business Review, and publications for United Airlines, Verizon, IBM, Sears, American Airlines, CitiGroup and Oracle.

He has also illustrated the covers and features of dozens of alumni magazines including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, the University of Chicago and American University.

His illustrations have been recognized by prestigious art publications such as Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, Print, and Spectrum. His work has also been exhibited at a variety of museums and galleries including the Society of Illustrator’s Museum of American Illustration in New York City, the Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, and in the Washington area at the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Sumner School Museum, Montgomery College Gallery and the University of Maryland Gallery.

View Michael’s portfolio at www.michaelgibbs.com.
Discover his award-winning alter ego M Glenwood at www.mglenwood.com.

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe