Mark Nowlin has been creating award-winning informational graphics for The Seattle Times’ most important news stories since 1999. He has become a newsroom expert in Boeing graphics and schematics and relishes the opportunity to tackle complicated visual storytelling, no matter the subject.
Mark has been working in news graphics for over 26 years. He distinguished himself at the Reno Gazette-Journal and The San Diego Union Tribune before coming to The Seattle Times, where he currently is the lead news artist responsible for producing breaking-news graphics as well as large-scale graphics that pair with The Seattle Times’ enterprise and investigative projects.
Thoroughly dedicated to explaining the news of the day, Mark also likes to attack topics of personal interest, learn all he can, and transform that knowledge into visual stories for readers. He pitched and executed the original ideas for two reporting-intensive projects: He reported and rendered a timeline of every commercial plane ever made by the Boeing Company and he created an in-depth guide to beer ¬pegged to Seattle’s Oktoberfest celebrations.
His skill and investment in such projects has been acknowledged by multiple industry awards including: Society for News Design Awards of Excellence, Copley Newspaper’s Ring of Truth Award, Best of the West Second and Third Place Awards, National Headliner First Place Award and a Bronze medal from Malofiej International Infographics Competition. Mark also worked on the graphics for The Seattle Times 'Sea Change' series which has won numerous awards including the 2013-2014 Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, the 2014 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism, A 2014 Online News Association award for the explanatory reporting, and a 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for a multimedia project.
When Mark is not creating graphics for The Seattle Times, he works on his own illustrations and is taking Nordic woodcarving classes at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle. Mark has been learning Viking/Dragon style carving from renown professional woodcarver Erik Holt for the past seven years. Mark's carvings include dragon bowls, panels from the Urnes Stave Church in Norway, serving boards and platters, and crosses. He works from traditional drawings as well as his own original designs and carves in red and yellow cedar, alder and bass wood.
Mark has been working in news graphics for over 26 years. He distinguished himself at the Reno Gazette-Journal and The San Diego Union Tribune before coming to The Seattle Times, where he currently is the lead news artist responsible for producing breaking-news graphics as well as large-scale graphics that pair with The Seattle Times’ enterprise and investigative projects.
Thoroughly dedicated to explaining the news of the day, Mark also likes to attack topics of personal interest, learn all he can, and transform that knowledge into visual stories for readers. He pitched and executed the original ideas for two reporting-intensive projects: He reported and rendered a timeline of every commercial plane ever made by the Boeing Company and he created an in-depth guide to beer ¬pegged to Seattle’s Oktoberfest celebrations.
His skill and investment in such projects has been acknowledged by multiple industry awards including: Society for News Design Awards of Excellence, Copley Newspaper’s Ring of Truth Award, Best of the West Second and Third Place Awards, National Headliner First Place Award and a Bronze medal from Malofiej International Infographics Competition. Mark also worked on the graphics for The Seattle Times 'Sea Change' series which has won numerous awards including the 2013-2014 Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, the 2014 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism, A 2014 Online News Association award for the explanatory reporting, and a 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for a multimedia project.
When Mark is not creating graphics for The Seattle Times, he works on his own illustrations and is taking Nordic woodcarving classes at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle. Mark has been learning Viking/Dragon style carving from renown professional woodcarver Erik Holt for the past seven years. Mark's carvings include dragon bowls, panels from the Urnes Stave Church in Norway, serving boards and platters, and crosses. He works from traditional drawings as well as his own original designs and carves in red and yellow cedar, alder and bass wood.
