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If you knew Joe Jones, as many of you do, you will quickly realize what a devoted
artist he is and that creating aviation art is truly what he was born to do. As
his mentor, world renown aviation illustrator James Dietz, said as he shook
Joe's hand for a photo during a visit to Dietz' studio in Seattle, "Joe, I'm
passing you the torch," Jones did not fully realize at the time the huge
commitment and responsibility that went along with the honor. He does now... he
has gratefully excepted the challenge and responsibility!
Aviation illustration is not just making pretty pictures of aircraft. It's about
painstaking research and attention to the smallest detail in the hope of telling
each story honestly, accurately and with full respect and integrity. It's about
bringing each story to life as if you were right there yourself to fully help
share and preserving our rich aviation heritage.
To do that it takes much more than just a passion for airplanes and technical
skills. An artist must truly live and breath aviation every single day. Jones
realized early on, to truly do this type of work with any sense of justice and
dignity, one must become an aviator themselves to come close to having the
ability and experience to visually capture the history, adventure, freedom, joy,
discipline and achievement associated with flight. For Jones, it has quickly
become the richest life one could ever imagine.
A Denver native, pilot, and proud member of EAA chapter 43, Joe Jones has been
both a professional illustrator and graphic artist since 1983. In 1995, he
started his own successful design firm, Art Works Studio. Currently featured in
the Macworld Illustrator CS2 Bible, over the last decade much of Joe's work has
been showcased in nearly two dozen top books on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
Illustrator as textbook examples of some of the best digital artistry in the
business.
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Since 2001, Joe's trail blazing digital aviation design and illustration work
have landed him accounts with clients such as Adobe Systems, Rolls Royce,
Frontier, and Indiana based Chautauqua Airlines. Jones has also gone on to
create national ad campaigns for Adidas and has also worked with performers such
as Carlos Santana.
Over the last several years, Jones has quickly been recognized and awarded as
one of the worlds top artists in the air show industry today creating the annual
campaign work for clients such as Rolls-Royce and the National Aviation Heritage
Invitational. Recently breaking all "ICAS" (International Council of Air Shows)
records in consecutively receiving the industry's top honors for his 2004 and
2005 campaigns for Nellis Air Force Base and Aviation Nation. Jones is the only
aviation artist in the world to receive five first place ICAS awards.
Committed to helping preserve our aviation heritage and dedicated to honoring
our American veterans, Joe spends a considerable amount of his time each year
volunteering his skills to the EAA, several air museums throughout the country
and works closely with the 8th Air Force Historical Society and the Tuskegee
Airmen Inc. Jones also works directly with The Greatest Generations Foundation,
and Shades Of Blue, producing award winning graphic design and illustration work
to help promote these important groups.
Please contact Joe at
Joe@Airmail-Greetings.com or use the form on his
Contact page. Jones
says quite often, "If you see any spark of life at all in my work, it comes
directly from the inspiration and support of all of the incredible aviators I
have had the great fortune to spend time with over the years."
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