Mitch Different – Art Director for Sunline Products in Houston (Katy), Texas. Different has been producing award winning art for the textile industry in 1980.

He begin a freelance illustrator and designer with commissioned for a variety of substrates requiring high end graphics in a variety of styles. Realism, cartooning, digital graphics and illustration. Specializing in T-Shirt design and simulated process separations and consulting to art departments in Photoshop channel separations.

Since 2001, he has been the Art Director at Sunline Products, where he has assisted the award winning screenprinting company from the beginning of their inception. Building a talented and passionate art department with both creative and technical proficiency that began with a single artist, now a large team of artists that rate as the best in the industry with the ability of taking an idea from mediocre to amazing for companies that don’t have the vision of looking in from the outside.

A recent statement by Different included the following…

“I offer digital and traditional graphics and illustration, specializing in hyper-realism, cartooning, drawing, airbrushing, typography screen printing and more.

“As a visual artist, I communicate ideas through media experienced by sight. I have a successful career, based on a strong background in the study of artistic principles, in addition to natural talent.

“Through my visual arts, I might work as a fine artist or in one of the commercial applications, such as graphic design, multimedia art, and art direction for screen printing.

“There is a world of Different possibilities.”

Different continues his freelance illustration work as well as presenting workshops on art, Photoshop and color separation.

Honors and Awards

SPTF Distinguished Service Award – SGIA 2006
SPTF Distinguished Service Award – SGIA 2007
SPTF Distinguished Service Award – SGIA 2008

http://mitchdifferent.com/

http://www.sunlineproducts.com/