Don Ivan Punchatz

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Don Ivan Punchatz (born 1936) is an artist who has drawn illustrations for numerous publications including magazines, such as: Heavy Metal, National Geographic, Playboy, and Time.

In 1993 id Software hired him to create the Doom video game package art and logo. The result was named the second best game box art of all time by GameSpy. [1] His son, Gregor Punchatz, has worked on special effects for several movies, and also created monster sculptures for Doom.

[edit] External links

• Doom logo
• The Page of Doom's image gallery (see fifth image row's first image for a scan of the Ultimate Doom poster)

[edit] References

• This article uses content from the GFDL Doom Wiki article "Don Ivan Punchatz"

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NAME	Punchatz, Don Ivan
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1936
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