Ben Fishman of New Paltz, NY

Ben Fishman is an illustrator and designer. His clients for illustration have included TV Guide, Business Week, The New York Daily News, Nickelodeon, and U.S. News and World Report, among others. Design clients have included Peachpit Press, Scholastic, the Monmouth Theatre Group, Digital Video, Separate Cinema, and Bill Graham Presents/The Fillmore. He works as Graphics Production Manager for Mohonk Mountain House, and continues to freelance.

In 1996, Ben was a finalist for a Maggie Award, and in 1998 he won an award from the Religious Communicators Council for Best Cover of a religious magazine, for work he did for Presbyterians Today. Ben's illustration work has also been featured in Computer Arts Magazine.

Ben says: "I've opted to show a number of different styles here, which in the illustration field is a real no-no. However, as an illustrator and a designer, I've done work that is more broad-based than just one set look. One way I work around the drawbacks of having more than one style of illustation is to actually use a different name for each style. The kids-oriented work (like the space-guy stuff and the animals) is Ben Fishman Illustration (with postcards sent out under that name), and the collage style is Artifish, Inc. (again, with separate promo materials). It hasn't caused me problems, as I keep the styles pretty segregated. And I'm always careful to ask clients what look they're after."

"Working in multiple styles has helped me in that it keeps things a bit fresher for me, rather than having to always produce the "same-old, same-old" look all the time. And I'd like to think that it's broadened my potential reach."

You can see online portfolios at: www.theispot.com/artist/artifish and www.artifish.com

Ben lives in New Paltz, New York, with his wife Julia, and their children, Kate and Noah.