Yellena James

Yellena James was born in Sarajevo and went to art school there during the civil war. She relocated to the US when she was 18 to study graphic design and illustration. She is now based out of Portland, OR. She has shown her work mostly on the west coast and maintains an Etsy shop where you can buy prints of her work.

James flora and fauna style is inspired by microscopic worlds and the discovering of strange new life forms, plants, and fungi. She loves the complexity of works by Julie Mehretu, Matthew Ritchie, Jacob Magraw, and Jeff Soto. Says James, "I try to create new shapes based on what I imagine to exist within the unseen world around us, and attempt to suggest movements in my designs that we're not accustom to seeing in our everyday lives, to sort-of pass that spark of inspiration on to others as they complete the movements within their own minds."

Nate Williams

Nate Williams, aka Alexander Blue, an artist, illustrator and designer has worked extensively in various facets of the illustration industry with a wide variety of clients. His illustration work has been geared to both adults and children and has appeared in magazines, advertising, publishing, music, fashion, textiles, home decor, merchandise, posters, social expression and newspapers. His clients include Converse, MSN, Urban Outfitters, Nick JR., New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dell, Cartoon Network, and The Truth Anti-Tobacco campaign.

Sam Potts

Sam Potts is equal parts designer, teacher, Twitterer, and possible superhero. He bats left, throws right, and has had fiction rejected by The New Yorker and Harpers. Creative Review in the UK recently featured Potts’s design of the storefront, signage, publications, and packaging of the infamous Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. He has also done work for the IFC channel, They Might Be Giants, NYU, many publishers of books, the New York Times, and Beck (sort of). Sam Potts Inc. has been an independent graphic design practice since 2002.

In his own words: “I love that there can be an art to nearly everything. I love that Frank Lloyd Wright was shameless. I love that geometry is ancient. I love that the littlest things can make biggest differences, like cufflinks and a pinch of salt and sometimes, five minutes. I love the lowercase 'g' of Electra and the '3' of Walbaum. I love that some things are inexplicable, in fact more things than you’d expect. I love that no expertise is needed to appreciate a well-made thing. I love that you can pretty much always assume there is a better way. I love that anything can seem new. I love that a computer is referred to as a machine. I love that music doesn’t have to mean anything to be beautiful. I love that there are theories about handwriting, the composition of matter, and horse racing. I love the light bulb joke about how many boring people. I love the economy of punctuation. I love the Radiator Building, the Queensboro Bridge, and the Sau Voi Corp. on Lafayette St. I love that anything is interesting if you look at it closely enough. I love the smell of hamburgers that comes in through the window every day, every day.”
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Veronica Ballart

Veronica Ballart's illustrations combine fashion with the intimate world of the individual, and with it, create a dialogue between public and secret life. Travel, music, nature, fashion and everyday life are Ballart's inspiration. With very sensitive figurative drawings and soft, blurred and watery colouring, Veronica Ballart has created a feminine and romantic style. The use of delicate objects such as feathers, origami or make-up, combined with her beautiful fragile characters, creates a melancholic beauty with an emotive storytelling aesthetic. Her work has appeared in fashion magazines such as Plaza, Damernas Värld and Fashion Tale.

Supermundane

Supermundane is the pseudonym of Rob Lowe, a multi-disciplined creative who works as a graphic designer, artist, illustrator, typographer, and art director in London, England. He uses tortuous techniques to create work that is stunning in its simplicity. He's best known for his pencil works, a series of doodled shapes incorporating small alien characters and handwritten titles.

Georg Oddner

Georg Mirskij Oddner was one of Swedens greatest photographers from the 20th century. His career spans more than five decades. The variety of his work is endless and the subject matter boundless. Georg once said, "Everything is subject matter—the key is to express the subject so that you acquire a relationship to it."

His pictures exude careful thought and humanism, respect and human closeness. All this shines through his pictures and makes him so unique as a photographer.

Aaron Baggio

Aaron Baggio's work is caught somewhere between abstraction and realism. One traditional pen and ink technique involves successive dots to build up darker tones. Baggio creates grainy textures and unexpected patterns in his pen and ink portraits using watercolors, acrylics, intricate line work, and digital assistance.