December 1997
Mike Slone Develops Woman of the Millenium Calendar
(Louisville, Ky.)–After 150 sketches and a running dialogue with the owner of Dawn Marie Interactive, designer Mike Slone has developed a thought-provoking, powerful woman of the millennium in his latest calendar/print.
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Mike Slone Develops Woman of the Millennium Calendar Print to Be Distributed Locally and Overseas

(Louisville, Ky.)–After 150 sketches and a running dialogue with the owner of Dawn Marie Interactive, designer Mike Slone has developed a thought-provoking, powerful woman of the millennium in his latest calendar/print.

Slone describes his current branding work for DMI as a mix of surrealism and renaissance. “The world is dynamic and instead of two cups and a string, we are using two computers and a phone line. This woman depicts the human interactions that remain in new media. It’s one of a series of images we are developing as Dawn Marie Interactive expands.”

“The ‘new’ woman of the millennium is a well-crafted collage of what has been and it politely questions what will be,” according to Dawn Marie Yankeelov, owner of Dawn Marie Interactive. Each texture in the work depicts a rapid move forward leading to the web-based technologies promoted today. The woman is represented as a whole, because this is the purest way to display a human being, according to Yankeelov and Slone.

The print was designed to be viewed at different levels: ?Greek influences–The central pose is universal, and speaks to all humanity.

Early Renaissance–The blue colorwash speaks of the fresco, an art done on sections of white plaster, and begins the journey of disseminating the news of the day. Industrial Revolution–The steel plates are included because they helped us build and construct our first visions of progress, such as ships and later airplanes. Digital Communication–Speed through light and the tremendous change in communications makes up the form. The Marking of Time–The foundation or leg of our humanness is still marked as time spent. Time follows paths into the vortexes of our decisions, and we become a human hourglass.

Africa and the Environment–The woman is holding the weight of the world and all its responsibility. Africa may represent the last opportunity for preservation.

“My team wanted this piece to generate discussion, conversation and communicate creativity. The woman asks questions without speaking. This is the key to the print’s success. It sends you to the website and its creators to seek out more information,” said Yankeelov. The questions debated upon the poster’s unveiling include:

The questions debated upon the poster’s unveiling include:

* What use of technology is wise for the human spirit?
* Will the computer start to run our lives and blueprint us?
* How can technology interact in a more earth-friendly way?
* What is the proper role of technology in today’s world?

More than 2,000 prints will be distributed to Louisville corporations and overseas at trade-related events.

Mike Slone’s credits include 2 Graphis International Design Awards for poster art in 1997:
1997 Dinnerworks, a benefit for the Louisville Visual Arts Association;
1997 The Louisville Ballet’s Nutcracker. (both a collaboration with his partner, Julius Friedman)

Dawn Marie Interactive is a new media marketing firm based in Louisville, Ky. Client services include: strategic planning for the deployment of web-based technologies, website development, corporate CD-ROM development, and all forms of marketing and public relations to support those venues. For more information contact owner Dawn Marie Interactive at dawny@dawnmarie.com and check out www.dawnmarie.com.

DMI Print Calendars will be distributed at the following events:

March 24-26, 1998
Eurotel ’98 International Conference; Brussels, Belgium
Approx. 700 attendees including European Counter-Intelligence, military networks, electronic publishers, law enforcement.

March 25-28, 1998
SCIP Annual Internet Conference; Chicago, Ill. SCIP stands for Society of Competitive Intelligence.
Approx. 3,000 to 4,000 attendees

April 1st and 2nd, 1998
Annual International Meeting on Search Engines Technology; Boston, Mass. by Infornortics Ltd. of the United Kingdom
Approx. 120 attendees www.infonortics.com.

April 12th, 1998
AIIP Annual Conference (AIIP stands for Association of Independent Information Professionals) Approx. 5,000 attendees

Sept. 17th-19th, 1998
Annual Digital AGSI Conference on Data Mining, Data Visualization, and other Intelligent Agents; Atlanta, Ga. (AGSI stands for the Association of Global Strategic Information)
Approx. 250 attendees
www.infonortics.com

Oct. 12th-14th, 1998
Online ’98; San Francisco, CA
Approx. 600 attendees
www.onlineinc.com