Tom Wilkes

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Edward "Tom" Wilkes (July 30, 1939 - June 28, 2009) was an American art director, designer, photographer, illustrator, writer and producer-director.Born in Long Beach, California and raised in southern California, Wilkes attended Long Beach City College, UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in the 1950's and 1960's.In 1967 Wilkes was the art director of the Monterey Pop Festival. From 1967 through 1969, he was the art director of A&M Records. He was a partner with Barry Feinstein in Camouflage Productions from 1970 through 1973, and a partner in Wilkes & Braun, Inc. from 1973 through 1974. He was art director of ABC Records from 1975 through 1977, and in 1978 he started Tom Wilkes Productions and became President of Project Interspeak, a nonprofit corp.