Margarethe Hubauer : Gold at the ARC Awards, dress code for SCHUHHAUS HÖGL, political illustrations for BAMS, portraits of Rembrandt's self-portraits, Celia JOHNSON - 'Small Painting for Mid Summer' exhibition

Bernhard KUNKLERS’ illustrations for this year’s MARQUARD & BAHLS annual report were awarded Gold at the ARC Awards. They also received Gold in the ‘Interior Design’ category.

ARC Awards in New York is the world’s largest awards ceremony for annual reports. Here is a selection of Kunlers’ work – picked from over 2,100 entries from 1,137 businesses from 31 countries.

Karolin KLIMEK designed an elegant greeting card for clients of renowned SCHUHHAUS HÖGL and illustrated the ‘dress code’ for sellers in international shops.

Flavio MELCHIORRE was commissioned by COMPUTER ARTS MAGAZINE to create a work example, of how to create a repeat pattern in a specific workflow. He began with illustrations on paper and then edited these in Photoshop. The contribution was published in the October issue of the magazine.

SPIEGEL commissioned Peter KRÄMER with the illustrations of the ‘overdose’ (issue 33) and ‘money bomb’ (issue 39) cover stories. Peter Krämer’s latest ‘Seascape’ addition to his ‘Quantities’ series has revealed his love of redundant safety systems.

The September themes of BamS newspaper were of course the vote in Berlin, the Euro umbrella, the anniversary of 09/11, the Pirate party, footballer Breno in jail… the reader letters were once again illustrated by Anja NOLTE.

On 6 October the exhibition 'Il volto di cristalli' portraits of self-portraits by Rembrandt opened at Galerie De Primi Fine Art, Lugano. The works by the Italian artists will be on show until the 8th of November. For more information go to www.deprimi.ch.

Celia JOHNSON's Encaustic – Abstractions were exhibited at a solo show of her work titled ‘Small Painting for Mid Summer’ at the HighPoint Gallery, Philadelphia – they were also displayed at the Philadelphia Open Studios Show on October 1 and 2, 2011.

The artist on her own work : "I am drawn to abstract elements, ornament, and the interplay of patterns found both in harmonious formal settings and in everyday life around me. My desire is to integrate those patterns and other visual structures uniquely through my process. The work becomes about creating relationships between my selected vocabulary of elements while exploring redundancy and repeat. My work is process-oriented, beginning with loose concepts and developed through an ongoing dialogue between materials and intent. I am exploring how I perceive, and my goal is to create a visual place where these elements combine to form my singular, personal geometric abstraction."