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Tacoma Film Festival 2009 winning poster

By weeklyvolcano on August 6, 2009

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David-mackey2 The Tacoma Film Festival folks just sent this announcement to the Weekly Volcano World Headquarters:

Tacoma, Wash. â€" Drum roll please…the winning poster design artist is David Mackey, a native of Tacoma who now lives in France.
 
The contest was open to anyone who wanted to enter and the Tacoma Film Festival received over 120 submissions from all over the world.  The idea of reaching out to our local artistic community turned into an international community.  But after after two weeks of examining and re-examining each entry a choice had to be made.  In the end, the “popcorn bucket” theme with bright red colors and stunning blue background won out with the idea that simple was better, but with a design that really “popped” (no pun intended.)  The panel of Tacoma Film Festival staff and volunteers along with feedback received from Grand Cinema supporters, decided with most certainty to use the David Mackey design.
 

“The poster screams ‘movies’ along with highlighting landmarks of Tacoma and Pierce County,” explains Philip Cowan, The Grand Cinema Executive Director and brains behind the Tacoma Film Festival.  “With the amount of talented submissions we received it almost seemed impossible to choose just one.”
 
Thank you to each and every artist who submitted a design.  The Grand Cinema is very lucky to have such great supporters that are willing to share their talent.
 
About the Artist
David Mackey was born and raised in Tacoma, Wa and graduated from Wilson High School.  A musician by trade he found out 5 years ago that he needed someone to design album covers and was having a hard time locating someone who could do that.  He decided to design them himself and thus began his new career in graphic design.  He currently resides in Venaco, Corsica, France (a village of about 700 people) along with his wife and son.  His mother and brother still live in Tacoma.
 
About the Tacoma Film Festival
The 2009 Tacoma Film Festival begins Thursday, October 1 with the Opening Night Reception at the Annie Wright Great Hall followed by the Opening Night Film at the Annie Wright Kemper Theater.  The evening begins at 6:30p and the film will start at 8:00p.  Films will continue through Thursday, October 8 playing at the Grand Cinema, Tacoma Art Museum and the Tacoma School of the Arts.  The official Tacoma Film Festival program is scheduled to be ready by Thursday, Sept. 9.  For more information visit www.TacomaFilmFestival.com.