Mark Montgomery, BFA Design/Illustration 2001, was named one of two hundred Best Illustrators of 2018/2019 for a poster he designed for inclusion in Cedo25+ exhibition, held at the Student Exhibition Center in 2017.
Cedo25+ was an exhibition organized by alumni to honor Cedomir Kostovic, a professor at Missouri State University, known internationally for social and political work in poster design. Mark Montgomery’s poster (shown above) was a response to that call for exhibition in the spirit of political posters.
The award was given by Lürzer’s Archive which is a bi-monthly magazine for the international advertising industry. This organization features advertising for print and TV from around the world. The magazine was founded in 1984 and has a world-wide circulation of approximately 38,000. Because of the size, scope, and juror qualifications, it is considered one of the premier advertising publications in the industry. The headquarters of the magazine are located in Vienna, Austria.