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Muriel Fahrion is an American illustrator and designer who has been creating art for over 30 years. She is best known for her work in the children's book industry, creating illustrations for books such as The Cat in the Hat, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and The Polar Express. She has also designed toys, puzzles, and other products for companies such as Fisher-Price, Hasbro, and Mattel.
Fahrion was born in 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. After graduating, she worked as a freelance illustrator and designer for various companies.
Fahrion has won numerous awards for her work, including the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, the National Parenting Publications Gold Award, and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. She has also been featured in several books, including The Art of the Picture Book and The Art of the Children's Book.
Fahrion currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and two children. She continues to work as an illustrator and designer, creating art for books, toys, and other products.
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Moving to the small town of Medicine Park, Oklahoma She and her husband, Michael Fahrion, ran a freelance studio Big Rock Works until they both retired. Her husband developed cancer and was in remission but eventually he developed disabling medical problems and they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. After her husband passed in 2018 Fahrion relaunched her career under Outta Thin Air Studio in 2019 where she continues to create new characters under her own business. Fahrion is very active in the Tulsa art community belonging to Whiteside Portrait Artists, Rainbowland Art Studio Figure Drawing and Inkslingers of Tulsa. She travels and does talks, workshops and demos.
American Greetings' toy division eventually was reduced in size and moved back to the corporate headquarters. Fahrion then moved and became senior art director for Enesco in Chicago. After working a few years at Enesco, Fahrion moved to Oklahoma 1995 in the position of Creative Vice President at United Design in Noble, Oklahoma, where she headed up sculptors and paint designers she worked for United Design for seven years.
In 1977, while Fahrion worked in her department, she was asked to come up with a rag doll character with strawberry and daisy theme in colors of pink and green for a greeting card series. It was then Fahrion created the original graphic and color depiction for Strawberry Shortcake, her cat Custard along with Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie. The line was determined to be a licensing property after a presentation given to Bernie Loomis of General Mills. Moving to TCFC (Those Characters From Cleveland) in 1978 Fahrion continued on the Shortcake line eventually depicting 32 characters in the line. Her sister, Susan Trentel, also of Cleveland, crafted the first Strawberry Shortcake doll based on the Fahrion's original greeting card design. The line was launched in the winter of 1979 and 1980. This design made a big impact, and in two years, Strawberry Shortcake went from 12 card series to an entire selection of books, clothing, dolls, toy accessories, and home decor. The Shortcake group joined Herself the Elf, Holly Hobbie and Ziggy forming the new toy and licensing division "Those Characters from Cleveland" (TCFC), under American Greetings banner but located in separate building. TCFC became a well known think tank for toys and licensing. While there Fahrion also worked on drawings and ideas for numerous licensing items.
Muriel Norris Fahrion was born June 11, 1945, in Cleveland Ohio, grew up and went to school in Rocky River, Lakewood and Cleveland, Ohio. She was one of 7 children of John H. Norris and Catherine (Wunderle) Norris. She began drawing at the age of 4 and attended free classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art during grammar and high school. After attending Lourdes Academy in Cleveland, she earned a scholarship to Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, OH graduating with a major in illustration.
