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Tuesday, June 8, 1992

ISD Marketing, Inc. is proud to announce the winning entries in the
2nd Annual Calamus Family Creativity and Design Contest.

To recapitulate; the entries could have been either text, graphics or a
combination of both. Submission could and did include; business card
designs, logo's, fonts, freehand drawings, posters, illustrations,
cartoons and graphical effects just to name a few examples, using any one
of the Calamus family of products, including, Calamus, Outline Art, the
Font Editor or any combination of the three.

This years contest effectively ran from August 20, 1991 until February 28,
1992 and just about everything that could possibily disrupt proceedings,
did so. Murphy reigned supreme in fact. :-) Finally, winners were
selected from the files uploaded into our Email address on GEnie at ISD or
mailed directly to our offices. The 3 actual judges this year were:
Geoffrey Earle, General Manager of Atari (Canada) Corp., Mario Georgiou,
ISD's own Art Director and in-house graphic artist extraordinaire and
Jesus Diaz, Art Director of Atari Explorer Magazine.

As stipulated in the original Rules, although the author retains any
copyrights to their entry, all winning files shall be considered 'publicly
distributable files' and may be made available for downloading from
CompuServe, Delphi and GEnie. As well, the winning entries will be
published in Atari Explorer magazine, our official magazine sponsor, with
the appropriate Author quoted and the prize won indicated.

 *** "Art always comments on both its subject and -- reflexively -- on 
 *** its medium." Diaz says. "When art is produced on computer, using a 
 *** sophisticated program such as Outline Art, it always tends to
 *** reveal something of the computer and the software, as these shape
 *** the artist's vision." 

 *** "But what surprised us about this years entries" continues Georgiou
 *** "is how well-integrated the influences of computer and software
 *** tended to be with the overall process of artistic creation." 

 *** "We think the Atari is a great tool for artists" concludes Geoffrey
 *** Earle. (Editor's Note: He is certainly biased but I happen to agree
 *** with his conclusion.)  :-)

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you
that submitted an entry. This year the entries were truly remarkable in
many areas and I am quite proud to have had the pleasure once again, of
co-sponsoring this contest. I would also like to take this opportunity to
thank John Jainschigg and Atari Explorer, who acted as co-sponsor. Wait
until you see the top 5 winners in the upcoming issue. I think you will
join with me in congratulating their efforts.

And the winners are:

First Prize, Winner of $1,500.00 worth of AGFA Compugraphic fonts for use
in both Outline Art and Calamus, (compliments of ISD) has been won by Dan
Marusich of Absolute Visuals out of Tuscon, Arizona. His logo designs are
simply first class!

Second Prize, Winner of an Atari SLM605 laser printer (compliments of
Atari) goes to Rolf Berger of Images Unlimited in Ottawa, Ontario. Some of
you might already be familiar with Rolf's Acura and F16.

Third Prize, Winner of a complete Calamus SL package (compliments of ISD
which I happen to know he already owns so I will replace it with
equivalent value in fonts and new Calamus SL modules if he so chooses)
goes to a familiar face, Joey (REALM) Sherman, whose "Grog, Bob, and the
Almost Oval-Looking Red Thing with No Real Purpose," a personal favorite
of mine, can only be described as incredible! In fact, it must be seen to
be believed! :-)

Fourth Prize, Winner of complete font packs compliments of and from both
Cherry Fonts and MS Designs, as well as $100.00 connect time usable on
either Compuserve, Delphi or GEnie, (compliments of the respective service)
has been won by Jamie Todd of Chimera. Jamie and his band, Radio Silence,
also use their Atari equipment for music composition and performance.

Fifth Prize, also Winner of complete font packs, compliments of and from
Ms Designs and Cherry Fonts as well as $100.00 connect time to either
Compuserve, Delphi or GEnie, (compliments of the respective service) goes
to Steve (T-Shirts are my life) Kaleita for his T-Shirt design, ROBOT.
Some of you might be familiar with Steve's entry, in fact, you might even
be wearing it. :-)

All of the above Winners plus the following 5 entries receive a one year
subscription to Atari Explorer Magazine, compliments of Atari Explorer: 

Honorable Mention: James Tackett's excellent Clipart font, CLIP001.CFN.

Honorable Mention: "Flowers of the Mind" by Don Harris. WOW. :-)

Honorable Mention: A stylized glider design by Martyn Phillips.

Honorable Mention: Michael Nilsen's entry presents his vision of a city.

Honorable Mention: Robert Gillies submitted an amazing Saxophone Player.

I will upload all of the above entries to the online services. In most
cases you will require either Calamus 1.09, Calamus SL or a Calamus DEMO
version of either to view them. Once again, my thanks to all that
submitted entries to this years contest. Your participation made this
contest a great success for the entire Atari community.

                  Nathan Potechin
                  President ISD Marketing, Inc.