RILLA ALEXANDER
Rilla Alexander is an Australian illustrator and designer whose cast of characters dances across Museo del Prado's ceramics, populates Swiss Credit Cards and sleeps on the walls of a Copenhagen hotel (where she replaced the bed with a tent). “The Best Book in the World,” her ode to reading, is being released this year by Flying Eye Books (Nobrow Press).
www.byrilla.com
CHRISTINA AMINI
Christina Amini is the Editorial Director of Art Publishing at Chronicle Books, one of the most admired and respected publishing companies in the U.S. Amini oversees the publishing of more than 100 books, stationery products and gift titles every year. She’s happy to be a professional collaborator and creator, cultivating, harvesting and bringing new ideas to fruition.
www.chroniclebooks.com
SAM ARTHUR
From London, UK, Sam Arthur is founding partner and CEO of Nobrow. Publishing illustration, comics, visual narrative and graphic art books, Nobrow recently launched their imprint Flying Eye Books especially for children. So, Sam spends a great deal of time with illustrators (some of the nicest people on the planet!).
www.nobrow.net
SERGIO BARADAT
Sergio Baradat has had a career spanning close to 30 years as illustrator, designer, photographer. His work is a unique marriage of timeless neoclassic sensibility mixed with an unmistakably contemporary point of view. Baradat has worked for the top names in publishing, entertainment and lifestyle brands. His work is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design in New York and The Postal Museum in Washington DC, The Cuban Heritage Collection, Miami, as well as many private collections. He currently serves as Art Director at The United Nations Postal Administration.
www.baradat.com
MAC BARNETT
Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author of several picture books, including “Extra Yarn,” illustrated by Jon Klassen, and is the winner of a Caldecott Honor, The Boston Globe Horn Book Award and the E.B. White Read- Aloud Award.
www.macbarnett.com
CRAIG BARTLETT
Craig Bartlett got his start after graduating from the Evergreen State College by working at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, where he learned the art of stop-motion animation, then moved to LA to direct the Penny cartoons for Pee Wee's Playhouse. From there he was story editor and director on Rugrats for Nickelodeon, which led to creating his own Nickelodeon series Hey Arnold! which ran for 103 episodes. In the last decade he created Dinosaur Train for PBS, which is still in production and has run for 79 episodes so far.
KATE BINGAMAN-BURT
Kate Bingaman-Burt makes piles of work about consumerism and she happily thinks and draws for other good people and companies. Along with being an educator and illustrator, she is also a curator, author, speaker and workshop teacher. Her first book, “Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?” was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010. She has since collaborated with them to produce two more titles about documentation and consumption in 2012 and 2013. For Bingaman-Burt, teaching and making go hand-in-hand. Without one, the other wouldn't exist. Bingaman-Burt is the recipient of the 2013 Portland State University College of the Arts Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize and a 2012 TEDXPortland Speaker.
www.katebingamanburt.com
RICHARD BORGE
Richard Borge works in New York City as an illustrator, animator, motion designer and director. His/her motion design projects are done through Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, and he/she incorporates live action and stop-motion elements. Music videos, info graphics, ads and personal short films are among Borge’s animations. Borge is fortunate to also teach a class at both Parsons The New School for Design and Pratt Institute.
www.richardborge.com
JOSH BOSTON
Eighty inches of pure optimism, Josh Boston is an art director/artist/illustrator/designer with a love of interactive and animal metaphors. Raised in the Midwest and refined on the West Coast, he has done just about everything, from advertising to print to digital to illustration and animation. He has also worked for an assortment of international brands, little brands, nonprofits, big agencies and tiny agencies. His work has been featured internationally in the Coke Side of Life Remix Exhibition as well as in publications such as Beautiful Decay, RE:UP, and Relevant. He gets really excited about storytelling, improvising and connecting forms to emotion. Boston is currently stationed in Portland, OR as an Art Director/Designer at Wieden + Kennedy.
www.joshboston.com
CLAYTON BROTHERS
For brothers Rob and Christian Clayton collaboration is more than a process: the concept of symbiosis resonates through every aspect of their paintings and installations. In a practice devoid of ego and restraint, the Clayton brothers develop intense compacted narratives on an intuitive basis. Rob and Christian Clayton seldom work on the same canvas at the same time, or discuss of their projects during making. Playing off their unspoken synergy, they take turns inventing, adding to, and editing each piece, propelling their ‘stories’ through spontaneous improvisation. Entwining their independent approaches, styles, and palettes, their works operate as co- authored epics, fusing the concept of self with the communal.
www.claytonbrothers.com
CALEF BROWN
Calef Brown is an award-winning illustrator and writer. In addition to a 20-year career in illustration, he has created more than a dozen celebrated picture books, including “Polkabats and Octopus Slacks,” “Hallowilloween,” “Boy Wonders,” and “Flamingos on the Roof,” a New York Times bestseller. He’s currently a faculty member at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada, and has previously taught at Art Center College of Design, Otis College and Maine College of Art.
www.calefbrown.com
DIANE CHONETTE
Diane Chonette is the art director at Tin House, a small independent publisher based in Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of the Communication Design program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and has a BS in Biology from Santa Clara University. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and 2 year old son.
www.tinhouse.com/home
ALLISON COLE
Allison Cole is an illustrator from Providence, RI and an instructor in the illustration department at New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has worked with clients such as Badge Bomb, Galison/Mudpuppy, Madison Park Greetings, Keds, The Land of Nod and Camelot Fabrics. Cole’s work is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio and it spans many different illustration markets, including editorial, publishing and licensing.
www.allisoncoleillustration...
LISA CONGDON
Illustrator Lisa Congdon is known for her colorful paintings, graphite drawings, hand lettering and pattern design. Her portfolio includes illustrations for Martha Stewart Living, The Obama Campaign, The Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, Simon & Schuster and Harper Collins, among others. Congdon keeps a daily blog of her work and life titled “Today is Going to be Awesome.” She lives and works in Oakland, CA.
www.lisacongdon.com
JENNIFER DANIEL
Jennifer Daniel is a visual journalist at the New York Times where she designs diagrams, designs interactive graphics, and illustrates all kinds of things including but not limited to hot dogs, mormons, and anthropomorphic basketballs. Formerly the Graphics Director at Bloomberg BusinessWeek her work has been recognized by many fancy design awards. You may know her from her regular design advice column in Print Magazine, but probably not because it was canceled after one issue. Jennifer lives in San Francisco but still has all her clocks set to New York time.
www.jenniferdaniel.com
VANESSA DAVIS
Vanessa Davis is an illustrator and cartoonist originally from West Palm Beach, Florida. She is the author of Spaniel Rage (Buenaventura Press, 2005) and Make Me a Woman (Drawn and Quarterly, 2010). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Tablet, and SpongeBob Comics. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
www.spanielrage.com/contact
ALICIA DESANTIS
Alicia DeSantis’ professional experience includes: Graphics Editor, Features, The New York Times; Writing Instructor, Critical Reading Critical Writing Advisory Board Member, Columbia University; Freelance Art Director, Op-Ed, Sunday Review and Book Review, The New York Times. She receive a BA, Harvard University; MA, M.Phil, Columbia University and has worked for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s and Let’s Go Publications. Awards and honors include: Malofiej Society; Publisher’s Award, The New York Times; Society of News Design, Best American Infographics; Nominee for Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University.
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GEORGEANNE DEEN
Georgeanne Deen was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and studied fine art at East Texas State University and California Institute of the Arts. While teaching illustration at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s, her work appeared in Rolling Stone, Wired, Spin, Esquire and on numerous album covers and other disreputable rags. She's represented by VAN HORN Gallery in Dusseldorf, Germany.
www.georgannedeen.com
RUFUS DEUCHLER
As Principal Manager for Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe Systems with an affinity for creative technology, Rufus Deuchler has established himself as a leader in a very specialized arena. With more than 20 years of experience as a corporate and editorial designer, he is an expert in creative workflows with Adobe solutions.
www.rufus.deuchler.net
ANDREA DEZSÖ
Andrea Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a broad range of media, including drawing, painting, artists’ books, cut paper, embroidery, animation, sculpture, site-specific installation and permanent public art. She teaches visual art at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and lives in Western Massachusetts and New York City.
www.andreadezso.com
CARSON ELLIS
Carson Ellis is an award-winning artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is best known for her children's book illustrations and her album art, including Wildwood, written with her husband Colin Meloy and The Composer is Dead, by Lemony Snicket. She collaborated again with Colin in the second novel in the Wildwood Chronicles series, Under Wildwood.
www.carsonellis.com
LEO ESPINOSA
Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose diverse work has been featured in animated series, children's books, magazines, products and exhibitions around the world. In 2011 Espinosa served as a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and currently lives with his family in Salt Lake City.
www.studioespinosa.com
ANN FIELD
Ann Field’s award winning collages and bright illustrations are universally recognized to inspire. Educated at Brighton College of Art, in Sussex, ngland, she was mentored there by British Illustrator Raymond Briggs…best known for his ‘Mr Snowman’ books and movie. After immigrating to the United States, Ann worked with renowned fashion Illustrator Antonio Lopez, in the Dominican Republic. She has been featured in ‘Communication Arts’ and has received The Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators, New York. Her clients include Christian Dior, Hard Rock Hotel, and Nike. Her work can also be found in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York. A former president of the ICON conference, Ann now Chairs the Illustration Department at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.
http://www.annfield.com
VIVIENNE FLESHER
Vivienne Flesher has illustrated for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, Martha Stewart Living, The Kennedy Center and O Magazine; covers for FSG, Random House and Penguin; stamps for the U.S. Postal Service; and a poster for the Society of Illustrators. Her personal work has been exhibited in Shanghai.
www.warddraw.com
COLE GERST
Art Director and Illustrator Cole Gerst is lives in Portland, OR, but was raised in the South and was influenced by local folk-artists. Before creating his own design agency, Option-G, he was art director for several entertainment companies. Gerst recently completed his first book, “Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry.”
www.option-g.com
SUSIE GHAHREMANI
Susie Ghahremani is an award-winning illustrator, a 2002 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and founder of Boygirlparty®, her signature stationery and gift brand available internationally. Her commercial and editorial clients and partners include Chronicle Books, Bloomsbury, Bank of America, Target, T-Mobile, and The Washington Post. When not painting, illustrating, teaching at RISD, running a business, exhibiting her work internationally, designing or advocating for the illustration community, Susie enjoys sunny San Diego with her husband and zillions of pets. She does not sleep a whole lot but she loves every minute. Find her online at boygirlparty.com or communing with friendly strangers on Twitter at @boygirlparty
www.boygirlparty.com
JUSTIN HALL
Justin Hall is a San Francisco based cartoonist and the creator of the series True Travel Tales, Hard To Swallow, and Glamazonia. His work has also appeared in the Houghton Miflin Best American Comics, the S.F. Bay Guardian, the Best Erotic Comics series, and in shows at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum. No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which he edited, received a Lambda Literary Award and an Eisner Award nomination. He is on the boards of the non-profits Prism Comics, an advocacy group for queer comics, and Siewphewyeung (Our Books), supporting Cambodian comics. He currently teaches comics at the California College of the Arts.
http://www.justinhallcomics...
JANET HAMLIN
Janet Hamlin graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design, then moved to New York to freelance. In 2006, the Associated Press sent her to Guantanamo to sketch the terrorism trials. She has continued on as the primary courtroom artist for global media outlets. Currently, 9/11 pretrial hearings are under way.
www.janethamlin.com
KRISTEN HEWITT
Kristen Hewitt is a Design Director at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, and specializes in gift and stationery publishing. At Chronicle Books, Hewitt has had the great honor of collaborating with many talented illustrators and artists including Jill Bliss, Anna Bond, Lisa Congdon, Klas Fahlén, Susie Ghahremani, Samantha Hahn, James Gulliver Hancock, Virginia Johnson, Masako Kubo, Grady McFerrin, Claudia Pearson, Julia Rothman, Becca Stadtlander, Suzy Ultman, and many others, and have created meaningful books and gift products together.
www.chroniclebooks.com
JASON HOLLEY
Jason Holley is an illustrator and exhibiting artist who serves on the illustration faculty of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is currently working on an experimental, semi-fictional book about fathers, with his wife and long-time collaborator, Lisa Wagner.
www.jasonholley.com
ROBERT HUNT
Robert Hunt has created illustrations for a wide variety of projects including hundreds of book covers, editorial illustrations for major publications, and numerous special projects including the Dreamworks logo and motion logos, advertisements, annual reports, packaging, and documentary projects on the Bay Bridge Earthquake reconstruction and the Tour de France.
www.roberthuntstudio.com
THOMAS JAMES
Thomas James is an Illustrator whose work has appeared in Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and other publications, and has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration. He is also the Editor/Creative Director of Illustration Age and the former host of the Escape from Illustration Island podcast.
thomasjamesillustration.com
VICTOR JUHASZ
Victor Juhaz has nearly 40 years’ experience creating award-winning images that range from satirical to serious, and is a board member of the Society of Illustrators NY, and a member of International Association of Combat Artists, The USAF Art Program, The Joe Bonham Project. Juhasz also works with Feherty’s Troops First Foundation and Foundation Rwanda.
www.juhaszillustration.com
LINDA JOY KATTWINKEL
Linda Joy Kattwinkel is a painter and a lawyer for artists in San Francisco. She was an illustrator and graphic artist before she became an attorney, and her practice focuses on legal issues for artists. She helps her clients with licensing and contracts, and has successfully prosecuted and defended many infringement claims on behalf of illustrators.
www.owe.com
LISA KELSEY
Lisa Kelsey is currently art director at Family Circle and has spent time in the art departments of Ms., PC, and Fast Company magazines, among others. She has been smitten with illustration and working with illustrators since she hired her very first spot illo about 25 years ago. She is an avid reader, an occasional writer, and a passionate advocate for marriage between text and art.
JOSH KENYON
Jolby & Friends is a collaborative creative studio based in Portland, OR. Founders Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols began their partnership in 2005 after meeting at the Art Institute in San Diego. They combine their talents as art directors, designers and illustrators, using their experience from working within agencies over the course of their careers. The two have exhibited their illustrations in galleries worldwide and have produced award-winning designs for clients including Google, Disney, Cartoon Network and AIGA. They try to achieve two goals within the work they create: Tell a memorable story and make people smile.
www.jolbyandfriends.com
JON KLASSEN
Jon Klassen is the creator of the Caldecott Medal winner “This Is Not My Hat” as well as the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year “I Want My Hat Back.” He’s also the illustrator of award-winning picture books “The House Held Up by Trees,” “The Dark,” “Extra Yarn,” and “Cats' Night Out.” He has worked as an illustrator for feature animated films, music videos and editorial pieces.
jonklassen.tumblr.com
DAMIAN KULASH
Damian Kulash is the singer for the band OK Go, who have been called "the first post-internet band" and are at the forefront of an emerging class of independent creative entrepreneurs making art in both digital and physical spaces. OK Go have sold over 700,000 albums, and their self-directed videos have been viewed over 150 million times online, and many more times in museums, galleries, classrooms, and at film, theater and arts festivals all over the world. Their recent projects include an interactive video made with the Pilobolus dance company, a live album chronicling the 180 concerts they played in 2010, performances at The Kennedy Center, Glastonbury and Lollapallooza, collaborations with The Muppets and Sesame Street, and most recently a video featuring a rigged Chevy Sonic performing the song "Needing/Getting" on a rally track loaded with more than a thousand homemade instruments with Damian himself as the stunt driver. The band's awards include a Grammy, a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, a Public Knowledge IP3 Award, two UK MVA's, YouTube Most Creative Award, and countless awards from major film festivals.
www.okgo.net
GRACE LEE
Grace Lee is the co-founder of Priest + Grace, a design company in New York. She was the art director of Condé Nast Portfolio and design director of O, The Oprah Magazine. Grace is the creative director of Eight by Eight, a new, self-published magazine about global soccer. With her partner, Robert Priest, she recently relaunched Newsweek as a print magazine and continues to design covers and features for the publication.
www.priestandgrace.com
STEFFANIE LORIG
Steffanie Lorig parlayed an award-winning design career to start Art with Heart, a nonprofit that helps children overcome trauma through creative expression. She has authored eight books, including “Such a Silly Baby,” “Oodles of Doodles,” “Chill & Spill,” “Ink About It,” “Magnificent Marvelous Me” and “Draw it Out.”
www.artwithheart.org
NELSON LOWRY
Nelson Lowry is Supervising Production Designer, LAIKA, The Boxtrolls. Winner of the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Production Design for his work on Fantastic Mr. Fox, NELSON LOWRY’s lengthy credits include ParaNorman, Corpse Bride, the Christmas comedy Fred Claus and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine. He contributed to twenty-two episodes of The PJs, an Eddie Murphy Imagine Entertainment /Touchstone Pictures stop-motion animated TV series for which he won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. He has also been nominated for several Annie Awards. Nelson spent seven years working in London where, fittingly, a selection of his Fantastic Mr. Fox sets is on display at the Roald Dahl Museum.
http://www.laika.com/person...
ADAM MCCAULEY
Adam McCauley works out of his studio in his home in the sunny Mission district in San Francisco with his wife, designer and musician Cynthia Wigginton and their cat Gertrude. He's a professor in the amazing Illustration department at California College of the Arts. Adam enjoys illustrating, playing drums, and making things. His illustrations have appeared in magazines, books, collateral and campaigns world wide. Adam's work has been included in group shows in New York, San Francisco, Osaka, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Nashville.
http://www.adammccauley.com
BRIAN MCMULLEN
Brian McMullen has worn many hats at McSweeney's—writer, artist, designer, senior editor, senior art director—during his twelve-year relationship with this tiny publishing company. In 2011, he founded McSweeney's McMullens, the company's one- person kids' book department. A picture book he wrote, "Hang Glider and Mud Mask," was recently released to a mix of acclaim and confusion. Whereas Daniel Clowes called it "beautiful," Goodreads reviewer Heather T. called it "creepy... like something out of my nightmares."
www.mcsweeneys.net
JUSTIN MORRISON
Justin was born in the deep northern woods of Vancouver Island in Canada, but grew up in the suburban sprawl of southern California and now stands firmly rooted between those two extremes in Portland, Oregon. Morrison would rather be adventuring in the creative outdoors with my son Camper, but most of the time you’ll find me behind a desk making stuff. He makes art, ads, and designs for myself and the best clients in the world.
www.scrapperstown.com
VICTO NGAI
New York-based Hong Konger Victo is not a boy nor a typo but a nickname derived from Victoria, a leftover from the British colonization. Her clients include the The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, Tor, PLANSPONSOR, MTA, McDonald's, Tiger Beer and many more. Ngai’s works have been honored with much recognition, including two Gold Medals from Society of Illustrators’ New York Annual Competition in 2013.
www.victo-ngai.com
COLBY NICHOLS
Jolby & Friends is a collaborative creative studio based in Portland, OR. Founders Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols began their partnership in 2005 after meeting at the Art Institute in San Diego. They combine their talents as art directors, designers and illustrators, using their experience from working within agencies over the course of their careers. The two have exhibited their illustrations in galleries worldwide and have produced award-winning designs for clients including Google, Disney, Cartoon Network and AIGA. They try to achieve two goals within the work they create: Tell a memorable story and make people smile.
www.jolbyandfriends.com
BRIDGET WATSON PAYNE
Bridget Watson Payne is the art book editor at renowned independent publisher Chronicle Books. With over ten years of experience in publishing, she has collaborated with hundreds of artists, photographers, designers, and illustrators to make their book ideas a beautiful reality. Her authors include Julia Rothman, Lisa Congdon, Dutch Door Press, Danny Gregory, Henrik Drescher, James Gulliver Hancock, and Yoko Ono and brands such as Pantone, Marimekko, Ideo, and House Industries. She is also the author of the books This is Happening: Life Through the Lens of Instagram and New York Jackie: Pictures from her Life in the City.
www.pippascabinet.blogspot.com
JAN PINKAVA
Jan started in production at Digital Pictures, London, animating and directing TV ads and graphics. In 1993 he joined PIXAR in California where he directed several award-winning commercials before striking Oscar® gold in 1998 for Best Animated Short with "Geri’s Game," which broke new ground in the computer animation of crazy old men. After he pitched in with animation on A Bug’s Life and storyboarding on "Toy Story 2" and "Monsters, Inc." Jan was invited by John Lasseter to create a feature. He came up with "Ratatouille," the story of a cooking rat, for which he shared an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2008. Most recently, Jan was asked to lead a pioneering group of hand-picked animation and technical artists at Google ATAP, creating a new form of storytelling for mobile devices. The first production, "Windy Day," was released in October 2013. Jan lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two sons.
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MIMI POND
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. Her long-awaited graphic novel, "Over Easy" will be published by Drawn & Quarterly April 15. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen Magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications too numerous to mention, and has written and illustrated five humor books. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full length episode of the Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" in 1989, and episodes for the television shows "Designing Women" and "Pee Wee's Playhouse". She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.
www.mimipond.typepad.com
ROBERT PRIEST
Robert Priest is the co-founder of Priest + Grace, a design company in Manhattan. He is also the editor of Eight by Eight, a new, self-published magazine about global soccer. Robert has been the design director of GQ, Esquire, Condé Nast Portfolio and O, The Oprah Magazine and he also co-founded American Illustration in 1981. With his partner, Grace Lee, he recently relaunched Newsweek as a print magazine and continues to design covers and features for the publication.
www.priestandgrace.com
ROBYNNE RAYE
Founded in Seattle Washington in 1987 by Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger, Modern Dog Design Co. is an internationally acclaimed design studio that creates imaginative, bold and playful design in interactive and print medias. Current and past clients include the Seattle Aquarium, Disney, Swatch, Coca-Cola, Target, K2 Snowboards, HarperCollins, Nordstrom, Blue Q, New York Times, Warner Bros. Records, and Shout! Factory.
www.moderndog.com/MD-16
BRIAN REA
Los Angeles based artist Brian Rea is the former art director of the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and his drawings for the column "Modern Love" can be seen each week in the paper's SundayStyles section. He has produced commissioned work for books, posters, murals, film and fashion for clients around the world. Some of these include The New York Times Magazine, Nissan, Vanity Fair, Marni, Time, Kate Spade, Herman Miller, Malcolm Gladwell and McSweeney's. Rea's drawings and installations have been exhibited in Mexico City, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. His work is also in the private collection of James Cameron and permanently on display in the Chrysler Building in NYC and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Rea is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. He spends his downtime traveling and surfing.
www.brianrea.com
JOE ROCCO
Joe Rocco is an illustrator mostly working in the editorial field. His work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers across the country, including clients such as Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times and Disney. He has children's books published by Harper Collins, Scholastic and National Geographic. For a decade Joe illustrated the humor column "Joe Bob's America" distributed by the New York Times Syndicate. Today he is creating motion graphics and animated gifs as well as designing apps. He's designed for The App Development Factory in South Korea as well as LKTV Productions in Los Angeles and uses "Kwiksher" to design and code his own apps from his studio.
http://www.secretsaucestudi...
LILLA ROGERS
Lilla Rogers Studio is an illustration agency representing artists internationally, licensing and selling work for surface design, and accepting commissions for editorial, graphic design, corporate and advertising clients.
www.lillarogers.com
SOUTHER SALAZAR
Souther Salazar’s artwork transports the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping narratives and dreamscapes—half-remembered, half- imagined places where stories can develop and take on a life of their own. Utilizing a wide variety of freely mixed media, found objects and layers of assemblage, his work evokes the wonders and imagination that many of us abandoned in childhood. Salazar often exhibits his collages, paintings, drawings and sculptures in dense and frenzied installations that encourage exploration and discovery. Recently, he and his wife Monica Choy created The Trading Tortoise, a traveling art installation that allowed them to explore the U.S. for six months, and more than 20,000 miles while bartering objects and stories from within a giant tortoise. He currently lives and works in Portland, OR.
southersalazar.com
PAULA SCHER
Paula Scher has been at the forefront of American graphic design for more than four decades. She’s a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram, and the author of “Make It Bigger” (2002) and “MAPS” (2011).
www.paulascher.com
STEVE SIMPSON
For 30 years Steve Simpson has been applying his multi-disciplinary skills to creative projects for a diverse range of clients right across the globe. Steve's innovative, award winning approach to design, typography and illustration is built on fresh thinking, traditional skills and healthy dose of fun. Steve lives on the east coast of Ireland where a good sense of humour is essential.
http://www.stevesimpson.com
ERIC SKILLMAN
Eric Skillman is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer and art director, best known for his work with the Criterion Collection, where he has been firmly ensconced since 2002.
www.ericskillman.com
LEN SMALL
Len Small is the art director for Nautilus, a new science and culture magazine. His previous work includes art direction at Tablet Magazine and Nextbook, as well as a design career in New York over the past 15 years, including work with IBM, MTV, and New York Magazine. He earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts Designer as Author program, and his BFA from Washington University in St Louis.
www.lensmalldesign.com
AARON SMITH
Aaron Smith’s fauvist, figurative paintings have been presented in multiple solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Besides serving as a curator and lecturer, Aaron is the Associate Chair of the Illustration Department at Art Center College of Design, where he has been an Associate Professor for 18 years.
www.aaronsmithart.com
OWEN SMITH
Owen Smith’s clients include The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New York Times, and HarperCollins. He shows in galleries in California and New York. Smith’s public art commissions include a NYC Subway station and a San Francisco Hospital. He is Chair of the Illustration Program at California College of the Arts.
www.owensmithart.com
JASON STURGILL
Jason G. Sturgill is an illustrator with a background in advertising, design and curatorial practice. Having worked for Weiden+Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics, Laika, and Nike, plus hosting his own online art gallery has heavily influenced his current art practice, centering around the intersection of art and commerce. Sturgill is a graduate of the Portland State University (PSU) MFA program in Art and Social Practice.
www.jasonsturgill.com
JESSICA SWIFT
Jessica Swift, a full-time artist, surface pattern designer, and writer, is on a quest to inspire creative people everywhere to pursue their wild + colorful dreams... and never give up. Her magically uplifting, colorful artwork is licensed widely for iPhone cases, fabric, stationery, rugs, and more. Her art and products are designed to serve as tokens of happiness - reminders that you need (and deserve) to feel GOOD in your life. Her forthcoming book on pattern design is due to be published in Spring 2015. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two adorable cats, and you can find her colorfully creating and blogging online.
JessicaSwift.com
DAVID TILLINGHAST
David Tillinghast is Associate Professor, Illustration Design Advisor - Art Center College of Design His work has appeared within the marketing materials for corporations the likes of Visa, Freddie Mac, and Harvard University. Recent work reflects circuitous influences from Modern, Oceanic, and African art, and has been profiled in Communication Arts magazine. Tillinghast holds a B.F.A. Illustration Art Center College of Design. Awards Include Communication Arts Advertising and Illustration Annuals, Graphis Design, Graphis Logo, HOW Self-Promotion, Print's Best Booklets and Brochures, Print's Best Illustration and Photography, Print Regional Design Annual, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Society of Illustrators New York, Step-By-Step Graphics.
LISA WAGNER
Lisa Wagner is a design consultant, teacher, and writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter who are great collaborators. Some clients: D.A.P., UCLA Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, McSweeneys, New York Times, Conde Nast, Time Warner Publishing, Travel & Leisure, Elektra Records. Some awards: SPD, TDC, ADC, Spark Award.
JAMES YANG
Born and raised in Oklahoma, James Yang graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, with a BFA in Communication Arts and Design. Within a few years of entering the illustration marketplace, prestigious trade publications began to show or feature his work, including Communication Arts Design & Illustration Annuals, 3×3 Magazine, Graphis, HOW, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Step x Step and The Art Directors Club of New York Annual. Since 1983, Yang won more than 200 awards for design and illustration, including best of show in 2010 from 3x3.
www.jamesyang.com
ALEXANDRA ZSIGMOND
Alexandra Zsigmond is The New York Times’ Deputy Art Director for the Opinion section. Since graduating from Stanford University in 2004 with a degree in philosophy and the visual arts, she has worked as a program coordinator and designer for a variety of arts organizations, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and Jazz at Lincoln Center and Cabinet Magazine in New York City.
www.zsigmonda.com
