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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.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Avenida Margarita

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– Albert Einstein

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Charles Dickens

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Charles Dickens

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– William James

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Robert Frost

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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"

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

– Marcel Proust

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott