For our second annual Best of Alaska Business Awards, Alaska Business connected with local graphic designer and artist Mike Kirkpatrick, owner of Screamin’ Yeti Designs, who is well known for his chalk art (he creates the fantastic chalk board menus at Moose’s Tooth Pub & Pizzeria). Kirkpatrick’s work highlights our Best of Alaska Business special section (starts page 42), in which we feature Alaska businesses that have excelled in various categories, as determined by our readers through an online survey.