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Leslie McGuirk

~ Author, Illustrator, Workshop Presenter, Rock Collector

Leslie McGuirk

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13 Tuesday Mar 2012

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The McGuirk’s Quirks Design Company was founded in 1986 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Leslie McGuirk began by designing environmental t-shirts. Clients included The Nature Company, Bonwit Teller, Earthwatch, The Marine Biological Laboratory, rhino watch, and many others.

In 1992, TAKASHIMAYA, discovered her artwork after reading about McGuirk’s Quirks in GLAMOUR magazine.

Takashimaya, a high-end department store chain in Japan, reproduced her environmental designs on over 800 products… everything from slippers, stationery, aprons, towels, bags, and toilet seat covers.

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Leslie McGuirk is a leader in the world of innovation and creativity. For over a decade, her workshop entitled THE QUEST FOR INSPIRATION has been changing people’s concepts about what creativity is.

Her belief is that creativity lies in how you see the world, and not whether you can draw or write. The process she uses to “take a blank page and make something out of nothing” is of immense value to others, no matter what their profession. She has developed a series of unusual exercises, which entice her students to see everything in new ways. An engaging speaker, Leslie’s goal is to increate ones’s sense of wonder, and get adults out of the “numb zone” where modern life leads most of us. It is only then that inspired thoughts can appear. She is one of very few artists who have taken ideas about raw creativity into the corporate world.

Clients include: The Golden Door Spa, Rancho Le Puerta Spa, Red Mountain Spa, Wachovia Bank, M Financial Group, Staff Development for Educators, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Wilmington Trust, and many others.

“Leslie’s workshops have been a source of inspiration and creativity for years at Rancho La Puerta. Her classes are consistently very well attended, and the feedback from our guests is always very enthusiastic. She is someone we plan to include in our programs every year.” – Program Director, Rancho La Puerta – Conde Nast’s 2010 #1 destination spa in the world.

“The quirks of McGuirk’s work are astonishing.” – Henry Winkler

“Leslie McGuirk’s gift is helping others understand how priceless, comforting and inspiring creativity can be.” – Leslie Morgan Steiner, editor of best sellers, Mommy Wars and Crazy Love

“We all came away from Leslie’s workshop with new ideas, new concepts, and new ways to think and feel about what it means to be creative.” – Wilmington Trust Vice President of Marketing

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Leslie McGuirk is an internationally known writer and illustrator of bestselling children’s books.

Originally published in Japan, Leslie’s illustrations were made into over 800 products for the high-end department store Takashimaya.

Leslie’s designs have been featured on carpeting, fabric and wallpaper for Tokyo Disneyland Hotel. Her Tucker books for children have been a favourite of little ones and reviewers for over a decade.

Publishers Weekly said, “McGuirk’s ingenious characters and illustrations are filled with quirky comedy.”

Leslie has been nominated for the Children’s Choice Award, and was winner of the Platinum Oppenheim Award for the best DVDs of 2009. She has been featured in many national newspapers for best children’s book of the year.

Her latest book, Wiggens Learns His Manners, co-written with Alex Von Bidder, owner of the famous Four Seasons Restaurant, has been featured on the Martha Stewart Show, and in Town & Country Magazine and People.com

Leslie is an author-in-residence for Skyreader™ Media, a developer and publisher of children’s ebook apps for Apple® iPad® and other tablet devices.  Skyreader enables next generation storytelling for children and parents in all new and engaging ways through its exclusive content and leading technology.

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