Kyle T. Webster

Kyle T. Webster has illustrated for most major publications in the United States, and his artwork has appeared on beer bottles, music posters, billboards, apparel, buildings, banners, doughnut boxes, magnets and buttons, menuboards, wine bottles and wine glasses, people's skin, book covers, and even in the form of a giant corn maze.

He was born in New York but spent his youth overseas in Pakistan, Singapore, Cyprus and Taiwan, thanks to his parents' sense of adventure and overseas teaching jobs. While in college, he was awarded a full fellowship from Yale University for study in their prestigious Norfolk art program, and in 1996, he was awarded a scholarship to study drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in Rennes, France, at the University of Rennes II.

In addition to receiving honors from The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Print, HOW, Graphis and the AIGA, Kyle created the beloved (and ridiculous) viral video, Original Design Gangsta, in 2006. The follow-up has been recorded and the video will air in late 2009. He also created and maintains the popular Daily Figure website.

Kyle is currently working on three comic book projects, an amazing iPhone game, numerous logos, and many, many magazine, book, and advertising illustrations. He is also an instructor at High Point University, teaching a digital art course. This pile of work makes him very happy, but not as happy as his two German princesses.

Fun Facts: Kyle is fluent in French, has trained for six months with a world-class card magician, is an advanced origami folder, plays too much tennis, was married in Italy, has ridden a camel, is obsessed with Tintin, and he does a spot-on Mickey Mouse impression.

Clients:

The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The NY Times, BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin, Plan Sponsor, The Washington Post, USA Today, ESPN, Slate.com, The Big Money, Worth, UTNE, The Progressive, The Guardian, Paste, Virginia Living, Hachette Filipacchi, San Francisco Magazine, Dallas Observer, Arthritis Today, Broward Palm Beach New Times, Greensboro Monthly, Philadelphia Weekly, Seattle Weekly, Houston Press, Hatrack River Press, Ecoute, Venuszine, Beer Advocate

Julia Rothman

Julia works from her studio in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. She grew up on a small island in the Bronx called City Island, which few New Yorkers know about.

In 2002 Jenny Volvovski (a great designer) and Matt Lamothe (a great animator) and Julia started a company called Also. Check out the projects they have worked on at www.also-online.com

Julia also has a big book blog where she writes and shows pictures of art, design, handmade, comics or children's books she thinks are nice. Check it out at www.book-by-its-cover.com

Retsu Takahashi

Retsu Takahashi--with his partner, Fiona, their daughters, Teagan and Neve, and their cat ,Seamus ("SHAY-mus")--is based geographically in Seattle, Washington.

Some of his professional interests are in food-related, architectural, instructional, and informational images. He works in pencil, pen/ink, and/or paints, using the digital medium to compose and complete as needed. Organic lines and forms run throughout his work.

He received his MFA in "Illustration as Visual Essay" from The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan (he also holds a BA in Women's Studies from Oberlin College, Ohio, and a high school diploma from Stuyvesant High School and a grade school diploma from Public School 41 in New York City, and he attended preschool at The Circle School on 9th Street in Park Slope Brooklyn ). He also has had over 10 years experience in the print publishing field, focused primarily in the area of print production management.

He continues to be a fan of Ultimate frisbee, bicycle road racing, cooking, and Fiona, Teagan, and Neve. He once played Pac Man for over an hour on one quarter.

Clients:

Plum Magazine, The Conran Shop, Easy Star Records, The Thresher Magazine, Real Soon Records, Interni (Russia), and others.

Andy J. Miller

Andy J. Miller is a graphic designer currently living in the USA, but also doing work in the UK and other parts of the world. Miller also works in illustration, web design with developers, and creating animations with the help of animators.

Miler works with clients on commissions, editorial work, book work, screen printing, exhibitions and more.

August 2009 saw the release of 'The Indie Rock Coloring Book', Miller's labor of love. Chronicle Books published the book and was created by Miler with The Yellow Bird Project. The book's royalties go to a different charity picked by the bands involved. If you would like to buy one or find out more, please visit here.

Currently Miller is taking on big and small commissions, working on an exhitbition, making a few books, co-running a screen print studio Bad Apples, and other bits and pieces.

Clients
Starburst Candy, Virgin, POKETO, Sony, Converse, Barclays Bank, LSE,
YO GABBA GABBA/Nickelodeon, Stereohype, Howies, Woot T-Shirts, Chalk Apparel, NYLON, The Big Chill Festival, ActionAid, Science Council, Palmercash T-Shirts, The Yellow Bird Project, Beck's, Kitsune Noir, Bon Bon Kakku, Infectious Art, Yellow Bird Project, Chronicle Books

Alex Gross

Alex Gross born August 30, 1968 is a visual artist currently working in Los Angeles, California. He specializes in oil paintings on canvas whose themes include globalization, commerce, great beauty, dark mayhem, and the remorseless passage of time.

Alex graduated in 1990 from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. Since then, he has become established as an artist in the Pop Surrealism movement.

In the year 2000, he received a fellowship from the Japan Foundation. He spent two months traveling throughout Japan, researching and collecting a wide variety of Japanese Fine and Commercial art, as research for his own artwork. Part of his collection was compiled and published by Taschen under the title Japanese Beauties in 2004.

In 2007, Chronicle books published The Art of Alex Gross, a monograph featuring Alex's painting, drawing and printmaking from 1999 through 2007. Science Fiction author Bruce Sterling penned the introduction to the book. His art has been featured in numerous publications including the book Pop Surrealism, Juxtapoz, Los Angeles Magazine, Communication Arts, Taiwanese magazine XFUNS, and The Los Angeles Times.

In August, 2007. California State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center hosted a retrospective museum show featuring an array of Alex's work from different periods throughout his career. In a review of the museum show, the Orange County Register wrote that "Gross' work is highly representational and, unlike many of his contemporaries lumped into the so-called low-brow art niche, he is an excellent draftsman. He also demands that one know a bit about world culture, history and politics and have the wit to appreciate his sense of irony."

His work was also featured in the Laguna Art Museum's exhibition and catalogue "In the land of Retinal Delights", in July, 2008. His work has been featured on the cover of the band Blonde Redhead's album 32, as well as on the cover of the paperback version of "After Dark", the national bestseller by Haruki Murakami published by Vintage Books.

Alex currently exhibits at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.

Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis was born in 1975 in Vancouver, Canada. She was raised in suburban New York and college-educated at the Univeristy of Montana in Missoula, where she earned a BFA in Painting in 1998.

She was a bartender and an oil painter when, in 2001, her now husband, Colin Meloy, put her to work making art for The Decemberists. What started as a small project undertaken in her spare time quickly developed into a big job. As the band’s illustrator-in-residence, she has created flyers and posters, website illustrations, t-shirt designs, backdrop and stage set designs, video props, and, all told, 18 record covers.

Happily, all this work led her to a career in illustration. These days she mostly divides her time between children’s book illustration, artwork for the Decemberists, and, once in a great while, fine art for exhibiting.

Liz Lomax

Liz Lomax, a three dimensional illustrator in New York, is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in her field. Her unique process involves designing and sculpting characters in their environments and then digitally photographing them for illustration. Her work has been published in Communication Arts, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators Annuals, Step-by-Step and several books on Illustration such as L rzer's ARCHIVE 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide and Taschen s Illustration Now . Liz was the first Chair of the Society of Illustrators Biennial Dimensional Salon. She planned and pioneered the Society s first three-dimensional, media-specific exhibition. She has taught at Parsons and Pratt, and lectured at the Society of Illustrators, SVA, Syracuse University, Loughborough University School of Art & Design UK, MTV and Golf Digest. Liz was commissioned by CowParade to create a life-sized cow for display in Newark Airport. She sculpted Angelicow , later purchased at charitable auction by Ringo Starr for his permanent collection, and replicated as miniature figurines sold worldwide. She graduated with honors from the Illustration Department at Parsons School of Design BFA and lives with her husband in Dumbo, Brooklyn. more on: www.lizlomax.blogspot.com