Hugo Award-Winning Illustrator
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Tim Kirk is a designer and illustrator with wide experience in a broad media spectrum—from theme park and museum exhibit design to book illustration and greeting cards. Tim’s first job out of college was with Hallmark Cards, Inc., where he worked as a greeting card designer. In 1980 he joined the Walt Disney Company as an Imagineer—first as an employee (for 22 years), and currently as a contractor. Tim was also a partner in Kirk Design Incorporated, which designed and produced (among other projects) the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle for Paul Allen.
Tim is a five-time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award for science fiction and fantasy fan art. Professionally, he has illustrated stories by L. Sprague de Camp, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Darryl Schweitzer, Lin Carter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, L. Frank Baum, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury and Fritz Leiber. He was the first American artist to illustrate the J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar for Ballantine Books (published in 1975), and more of his Tolkien work is featured in the Greisinger Museum in Switzerland. In 2024, two of Tim’s illustration projects have just been published: The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber from Centipede Press, and The Complete John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman from Haffner Press. Tim’s illustrations for the long awaited The Last Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, will appear later in 2024.
Tim was a principal designer on Tokyo DisneySea and the Disney-MGM Studio Tour theme park for Walt Disney World. He also did design work for the 2003 Walt Disney Pictures production, The Haunted Mansion. Other clients include Thinkwell Design and Production, The Hettema Group, Zeitgeist Design and Production, Rethink Leisure and Entertainment, Henson Associates, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the University of Notre Dame, Ghirardelli Chocolate, the Parsonage of Aimee Semple McPherson (in Los Angeles), the National Tourist Administration of China, The Lotte Group, and the Mini Time Machine of Miniatures in Tucson, Arizona.
