At Shillington, we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered the work of many creatives, from design studios to illustrators in many different countries and cities so far. Now, we’re heading to the West Coast US, specifically, sunny California. The Golden State is known for Death Valley (the hottest National Park in the US), the gorgeous wine regions of Napa and Sonoma and also being the avocado capital of the world (in case you’re wondering). It’s also the birthplace of the internet, Apple and a vibrant art and design scene.

There are a lot of amazing design studios, designers and illustrators hailing from California. So let’s dive right in and see who they are. We picked our top 10 to give you a taste of what California has to offer.

1. Laci Jordan

Laci Jordan is truly a renaissance woman—an artist, illustrator and creative director currently living in Los Angeles. She describes herself as a “consistent maker of moves” and creates content that aims to bring visibility to black creatives, especially women. She’s worked with some big names from Walt Disney to ABC. Her specialties are diverse and also include photography, web design, marketing and curation.

Her work is evocative and uses bold color choices to bring light to pop culture icons and marginalized voices. You can follow Laci on her blog and also check out her shop if you want to purchase a print.

2. Evangelina Rios

Evangelina Rios is a San Francisco-based designer. She says, as “designers, we can get stuck chasing the fleeting ideal of perfection. I often remind myself of what I’ve learned. The most authentic brands are human—too much polish strips that humanity away” and that stories need to be real and truthful in the way that consumers can connect with them. She’s created striking designs for brands ranging from restaurant branding to body care packaging and editorial.

She created the branding, typography and packaging for Fluid magazine which is aimed at “pushing the boundaries on gender expression” along with challenging gender roles and behaviors through interviews, essays and connecting the community through conversation. We really loved the bold choice of type and for the custom logo inspired by the ’70s aesthetic and the brand assets designed for the magazine, using colors from the non-binary flag. The result was a publication that is edgy, sophisticated and contemporary.

3. Lina Cordero

Onlychild is a Los Angeles-based design studio started by the designer and photographer Lina Cordero. Her studio specializes in branding and visual solutions for brands after gaining experience working for media, fashion, technology and entertainment companies. Her work has a unique flair to it that is colorful, playful and uniquely crafted type choices.

For the Sydney-based Bar Positano, she drew inspiration from Italian mobile cafes, the Amalfi Coast and Italian vintage typography. The end result was a brand identity that is unique and vibrant—you can just imagine yourself sipping on a limoncello at Marina Grande.

4. Maya Ealey

San Francisco-based brand designer and illustrator Maya Ealey works for Asana and creates thoughtful design choices that she believes can transform the way brands communicate with the world, creating work that is beautiful, functional and meets client goals.

And for a trip down memory lane, head on to Maya’s shop Just Rewindit. As she puts it, “Just Rewind It fully embraces the past, humor and self-awareness. Travel back in time to recall your most precious moments in the form of pins, prints, stickers and more.”

5. Herman Scheer

Herman Scheer is a Los Angeles design studio that helps brands connect with their consumers in a personal way through services like brand strategy, naming, identity and messaging. They’ve worked with some cool clients and created a shop for some of their favorite products they’ve worked on which you can find here.

For the gum and mint brand Neuro, they developed packaging that is minimal and type-focused in a product line featuring 4 colors that exude different moods from calm to energetic. By seeing the minimal packaging alone, you immediately think this is a high-quality product and want to stash it in your back pocket.

6. Blossom Liu

Blossom Liu is a Los Angeles-based designer and visual communicator who understands the way design can permeate our culture and society. Through her work, she strives to create positive change, create connections and make contributions to society as a whole.

For the Second Chances project, she rebranded a nonprofit after-school organization. The inspiration behind the design was the “vibrant visual language from the colorful scenes of South Los Angeles” and creating a visual identity that relates to the youth, sense of strength and community. She won 3 awards for this project, including RGD SoGood Awards (2020), Adobe Achievement Top Talent (2019) and ArtCenter Gallery (2018).

7. Aley Hanson

Aley Hanson is a freelance illustrator from San Francisco and creates artwork that focuses on diversity and embodying women’s strength. Her artwork ranges illustrations for editorial, product and brands with the goal of helping them elevate their brand voice. Be sure to check out Aley’s shop too where you can find whimsical art prints and accessories that will be sure to add some character to your style.

For Women’s Day & Menstrual Hygiene Day, she created graphics for Kube Agency that was “inspired by all the badass womxn of the world fighting for justice, freedom and equality.”

8. Kati Forner

Kati Forner’s Los Angeles studio is a full-service agency that helps to transform brands by helping them grow through storytelling and considered design. The aesthetic, whether it’s for packaging, interactive or print is always minimal, elegant and uses a subdued a limited color palette for beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands. Kati’s work is regularly recognized by design publications for its elegant, minimalist aesthetic and timeless style.

For Milk Moon, her studio developed the branding and packaging for this wellness-oriented motherhood brand that channels a “sense of calm, clarity and resilience.” The typography choice, logo and colors of the packaging channels motherhood, an organic ethos and a medicinal feel to the design that stresses quality and care.

9. Meredith Schomburg

The Los Angeles-based illustrator Meredith Schomburg creates a wide range of work from tech to editorial illustration, with images that exude optimism and boldness. She’s created illustrators for brands like Airbnb, IDEO, Figma, GoDaddy and Found By. As other creatives can relate, for Meredith, the illustrations evolve over time and capture what she is going through in her life. There’s a key element that ties all the work together through bright colors and organic shapes.

We quite liked the portrait pictured above which showcases her signature style that is bold, feminine and distinctive with the use of orange and purple.

10. TRÜF Creative

The TRÜF Creative studio was founded by Adam Goldberg and Monika Kehrer, hailing from Santa Monica. They develop branding for products that show “authenticity, simplicity and boldness” for both new and old brands ranging from cultural institutions to technology companies.

They partnered with Art of Play to create one of the most unique playing cards decks you’ll ever find. To describe it in their words, the deck is “minimal, modern, graphic, quirky, stylized, grotesque, delightful and just plain weird” which is why we like it so much. The artwork of each card is distinctly unique and the box is letterpress-printed.

Want to see more amazing creatives from around the world? We recently visited Chicago, Pennsylvania, Canada and Belgium.

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At Shillington, we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered the work of many creatives, from freelance designers to animation studios, in many different countries so far and now we’re heading to the USA for a celebration of creatives from the many cities of Pennsylvania. With the questionable amounts of sun in Philadelphia getting a lot of attention, it could be easy to overlook the creative magic happening elsewhere in the state.

Don’t feel guilty if you have gotten stuck in this trap yourself. We did the digging for you and have uncovered some of the many talented creatives—producing work across branding, illustration, digital design, animation and more—who call Pennsylvania home.

1. Noa Denmon

Noa Denmon is a Pittsburgh-based illustrator, who creates detailed editorial illustrations for a clients such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and Macmillan Publishers. Her subject matter has a strong lean to portraiture and character, with her digital illustrations evoking the texture and energy of traditional media. Denmon’s recent book cover design for author and actress Echo Brown‘s young adult novel Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard is an eye-catching, masterful work of illustration.

2. Risolve Studio 

Risolve Studio is a Risograph printing studio founded in 2017, which is located in downtown Lancaster, PA. The family-run studio was founded upon a passion for sharing great innovative design and printmaking. Owners Sebastian and Lyndsey Burke are the husband and wife team behind this amazing printing studio who are in the business of making bright and bold things. The studio celebrates and expands the accessibility of Riso Printing, pushing the boundaries and technical possibilities of the medium. We love the beautiful Risolve Studio Sample Pack created by Lyndsey, which showcases the versatility and scope capable of Risograph on a delicious variety of paper stock from US based paper company, French Paper Co.

3. Corey Brickley

Based out of Philadelphia, freelance illustrator and designer Corey Brickley specialises in moody, comic-style illustrations rich in depth and story. Brickley boasts a client base across editorial and publishing which includes The New Yorker, The Huffington Post and Pacific Standard. The spooky mood of his work takes one step closer to the truly terrifying in his 2019 project The Folio Book of Horror Stories. A collection of stories tracing the history of horror, Brickley provides horror inspired illustrations, with this simple but chilling example gracing the book’s cover.

4. Mary Kate McDevitt

Illustrator and lettering artist Mary Kate McDevitt has been creating hand lettering and illustrations since 2010 from her studio in Philadelphia. With a sizeable client list boasting the likes of Nike, Penguin Books, Nintendo and Chronicle Books, she is sought after for her cheerfully colourful lettering with a positive tone of voice. While so many of us have been running around getting lost in between the desire to be hyper productive during lockdowns and the guilt of not getting enough done, McDevitt created this affirming lettering piece to remind us all to take a minute without punishing ourselves for resting in amongst the mayhem.

5. Efir Media

Efir Media are a web design and branding agency working out of Philadelphia, USA and Europe. Creating a variety of web and digital solutions for their clients needs, their portfolio of work is slick and contemporary. Their work on the UI/ UX design and web development for animation design studio Lemon Digital resulted in a slick, monochromatic minimalist website which featured integrated animated elements into the user experience. As a result, which could be a very stripped back digital experience becomes dynamic and intriguing, inviting the visitor into a world of movement and story telling.

6. Sarah Huny Young

Sarah Huny Young is a Pittsburgh-based creative director, interdisciplinary artist and photographer, who also works as an event producer and DJ. Young is an indomitable and influential creative force with a multifaceted practice. Her most recent project, American Woman is, in her own words, “a multimedia portrait and interview series about Black American women”, which was launched in July 2016. This powerful project takes an intersectional and stereotype pushing take on the overwhelmingly white and colonial story of the term “American Woman.” Explore the awesome project Instagram, then head to the Vimeo channel to watch the video interviews.

7. Rob Shields

Based in Philadelphia, Rob Shields is an illustrator, comic artist and game developer whose style lands like an explosion of neon, cyber-punk madness. His work catches he eye and then draws the viewer into its immense detail. Taking this visual complexity to the next level, his kickstarter comic project Neon Wasteland, is the perfect example of converging technologies deepening a traditional medium. The comic series is full of detailed illustrations from across the psychedelic, post apocalyptic world of Neon Wasteland. However, as we see in his kickstarter video here, Shields has expanded the concept of the comic to include VR, with an interactive story that is almost a choose your own adventure cartoon with interactive play aspects and behind the story extras. This is a really trippy project and well worth exploring.

8. Dana Kalnick

Dana Kalnick is a freelance designer, illustrator and comic artist based in Philadelphia. Her illustrative style is warm and whimsical, dominated by soft tonal colours and minimal outlines. The subject matter of Kalnick’s work lends itself to fanciful and dream like scenes, melding perspective and detail to tell a deeper story. Her beautiful illustration Sea of Feels, is a perfect example of this.

9. Ahn Na Yi

Ahn Na Yi is a Harleysville-based designer and illustrator, who specialises on UX/UI and animation. The bold geometric style of her work lends itself beautify to playful, modular app designs. We really enjoyed her personal project Animal App, a simple but crisply designed educational app for children and adults to learn about animals. We love that she also includes animals like dragons and in the “type” section describing each animal, has written mystical.

10. Cheyenne Jacobs

Cheyenne Jacobs is a designer based out of Philadelphia. She is one half of the design studio Say Less Design, which she co-founded with designer and friend Randi Bellamy. The studio produces branding, offering services across digital, packaging, print and art direction. Jacob’s work on the Rail Park Concert Benefit campaign branding visuals and posters for the 2018 event run in The Rail Park, a revitalisation project in Philadelphia transforming a section of unused rail lines into a a dynamic, usable public space for the community.

11. Trevor Fraley

Philadelphia-based freelance illustrator and character designer Trevor Fraley creates artworks for film, comics and editorial. His bold, story powered style of illustration has been featured on Kotaku, Blavity and Medium. We loved his his comic book approach to Inktober in 2019, where he told the story of Friday, a little girl who can see and talk to ghosts. Of his more recent work, we couldn’t go past his illustration celebrating the 2020 Oscars wins of directors Matthew A. Cherry, Taika Waititi and Bong Joon Ho.

12. Farid Ghanbari

Farid Ghanbari is an art director with a background as a 3D CG generalist and lighting artist with more than a decade of experience. Based in Philadelphia, Ghanbari creates exquisitely detailed, immersive 3D rendered artworks which possess a deep cinematic ambiance. In some, there is a feeling of anticipation and ambience in the scenes he renders, as though you will be transported into another universe. In others, his work takes you deep into the minute details of the universe, like this surreal medical illustration of a cancer cell dividing. It’s both grotesque and intriguing. It certainly grabs the attention.

13. Sophia Marie Pappas

From her Pittsburgh-based studio, illustrator Sophia Marie Pappas creates work for magazines, children’s publishing and greeting cards. Her style is flexible and contemporary, bringing to life vibrant senes with splashes of colour and minimal line work. Her dynamic illustrations lend themselves well to motion. We particularly love the minimal colour palate and playful story of this small animated GIF, titled Live From the Kitchen: A GIF on how not to cut an orange.

14. Dan Lee

The power of Philadelphia-based lettering artist Dan Lee’s work is in his eye for catching the mood and story of a moment. He masterfully remixes and revives famous book quotes, tweets and private thoughts into artworks for the eyes, mind and soul. Working on an iPad Pro into Procreate, his instagram feed offers up a veritable cornucopia of positive affirmation and energy boosting artworks. Lettering lends itself well to glorifying famous well crafted lines. However, the private thoughts and moments of an artists life, when shared, often hit home the deepest. We really enjoyed the sentiment of this particular this piece, which Lee describes as a Saturday night self-portrait.

Want to see the full list of creatives around the world? The latest countries we covered in the series are Canada, Russia and Belgium.

Feeling inspired? Check out our #ILoveTheseGuys series to discover more creative studios from around the world! Or become a graphic designer yourself—study design in London, Manchester, New York, Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne with Shillington.

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At Shillington, we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered the work of many creatives, from freelance designers to animation studios, in many different countries so far and now we’ve set our sights on Russia. This vast transcontinental nation makes up one-eighth of the world’s inhabited territories and spans the divide of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is a country of epic proportions, both culturally and historically. As a result, many of us carry such a heavy preconceived notion of Russia that it often obscures our view of the creativity and diversity of its present.

With so much incredible work coming out of Russia, we had a challenge to whittle down our list to our top 9 creatives. Here we include projects across branding, packaging, illustration, digital,  identity, motion and more. Read on to see who made the list.

1. Roman Erohnovich

Roman Erohnovich, like many designers, is a multi-specialist who works across art direction, design and illustration—with a focus on branding, web and digital. His self espoused process leans towards wilfully flouting the rules of design. His recent identity redesign for Prostorcrew, a Moscow-based events company, sought to encapsulate the vibrant energy and movement of Prostorcrew’s approach to events. He produced a 3-dimensional identity full of vitality and bold colours, imbued with the feeling of being engulfed in the energy of an event and letting it carry you away.

2. Superdesigners

Superdesigners is a Moscow-based creative design studio and production company founded by Ilya Perevedentsev and Valeriy Lunchuk in 2017. With an eye for the technically challenging and unique, the studio specialises in 3D, motion and graphic design, creating bold and energetic content for their clients across promos and video ads, live gig visuals, music videos, interactive installations and digital experiments. Our favourite example is their Bright Park branding campaign—made for a Russian car dealership based in the Perm region—which is like watching living chemistry. Superdesigners created a series of motion graphics and animations which draw the viewer into the textures, light and sounds that one might experience while driving. The outcomes are mesmerising and surreal.

3. Facultative Works

With a preference on a holistic approach to design, Facultative Works design studio has worked on projects across illustration, identity, sound, editorial and furniture design. In 2019, they revisited their identity design for P.Y.E Optics, as part of an ongoing collaboration lasting more than 10 years. For their P.Y.E Optics Identity 2.1 they again considered every aspect of an optics company’s needs from business cards, client cards, microfibre cloths and bags. Excitingly, the development and design of the P.Y.E’s online store was a growth of the relationship and a new step for Facultative Works. In a move beyond previous renditions to this identity, the studio’s playful and rigorous approach resulted in a very pared back and bold design using a limited but well-rounded colour palette.

4. Margarita Kukhtina

Margarita Kukhtina is an illustrator working predominantly across editorial, print and advertising. The whimsey and magic of her illustrations leaves no surprise to the fact that she is a regularly sought after children’s book illustrator. We love her dreamy use of colour which lends an etherial quality to her work. In 2019, several of her illustrations were shortlisted for the BIISA International Illustration Biennale in Portugal. For us, this piece really captures the mood of the moment, as globally we stay inside in isolation and work to enrich and live within our vibrant inner worlds.

5. Studio Stacie Co.

Studio Stacie Co. is a Saint Petersberg-based studio specialising in brand design for fashion, beauty and lifestyle companies. This small boutique studio is run by Founder & Brand Designer Anastasia Dunaeva. Leaning towards an approach we could describe as minimalistic luxury, the designs this studio produces are simple and elegant, with a focus on materiality. The recent branding they produced for Prose, a fashion brand in the Netherlands, offers a clear epitome of this. The combination of serif and sans-serif typography, gentle pastel colour palette and refined geometric shapes embodies the feminine, minimalistic and high-quality elegance of the Prose ethos and that of Studio Stacie Co. itself.

6. Olga Gurova

Based in Saint Petersberg, Olga Gurova works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer creating vibrantly colourful digital illustrations. Her recent work for Walker app, a Russian walking app which gamifies the users daily walk by rewarding every step taken, is an explosion of colour. Responding to the playful tone and approach of the app, Gurova created a suite of branded illustrations which are full of life, texture and movement. They have certainly put a smile on our faces.

7. Sofia Kolovskaya

On Sophia Kolovskaya‘s wesbite she describes herself as an illustrator, graphic designer and full-time dreamer. And really that is the tone of her work, one of play and open-handed creativity. An avid advocate of making something every day, Kolovskaya has been painting every day for nearly 6 years. As part of the 2019 annual Day of Finland Festival, Kolovskaya worked in collaboration with Finish illustrator Teo Georgiev to design a large scale mural to celebrate the unique culture and beauty of Finland. Their aim was to move beyond cliche and they certainly achieved that in this fanciful and colourful finished artwork. She documented the entire process leading up to the installation in Saint Petersburg, which you can read on her website.

8. Made Design Studio

MADE are a small design studio based in Moscow, specialising in corporate branding and website development. Their recent self-made project for a Barcelona-based real estate agency piqued our interest for its vibrant, character-filled illustrations and friendly tone of voice. By heroing the colourful artworks of illustrator Katya Citrus, they keep overall design minimal, utilising bold easy to read fonts and the simple motif of the classic doormat. The overall design achieves a sense of openness and hospitality, inviting you to see this company like you would a trusted, friendly neighbour.

9. Tatiana Rusalovskaya

Tatiana Rusalovskaya is a freelance designer based in Moscow, who specialised in packaging and visual identity. For a recent packaging brief, she developed the illustrations and design for the labels of The Nuts and Honey Spread. Exploring the unique flavours and tastes of the products lead her to produce unique patterns, gesturally hand drawn in pastels, to evoke the natural textures and tones of the ingredients. For finishing touches she uses uncoated paper labels which holds a natural texture, on top of which tactile varnished lettering and patterns interplay. The golden foil brings a light and warmth to the product design, which is the perfect finishing touch.

Want to see the full list of creatives around the world? The latest countries we covered in the series are Belgium, Portugal, Australia and Argentina!

Feeling inspired? Check out our #ILoveTheseGuys series to discover more creative studios from around the world! Or become a graphic designer yourself—study design in three months full-time or nine months part-time in London, Manchester, New York, Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne with Shillington.

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At Shillington, we love to celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered many different countries so far and are now exploring the creative scene in Belgium. The country name comes from the Roman province, Gallia Belgica, an area populated by the Belgae. Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent are filled with contemporary galleries, innovative design and a great culinary scene. Belgium has so much to offer! With over 1,000 varieties of beer produced, there is a neverending supply of beers to enjoy and sweets to savor, like the Liege waffles, pralines and world-famous chocolate. And Belgium is known for its comic-book artists with popular titles like Tintin, Gaston, Nero and many others.

We narrowed down our list of Belgian creatives to our seven best. The list includes book cover design, whimsical illustrations, visual identity for the arts and a campaign design for a creative awards organisation. Read on to see who made the list!

1. Joachim Lambrechts

Joachim Lambrechts has a background in street art and has been involved in the graffiti scene in Antwerp since the 90s. His playful drawings of urban scenes, people and animals have a distinctive, experimental style with a mixed influence from artists like Lichtenstein, Haring and Basquiat. Since 2014, he’s been showing his paintings both locally and internationally in gallery shows and commited to his art practice full-time. You can also find his mural work in many cities around Europe. For Joachim, leaving his comfort zone allows him to keep creating new material and staying in the creative flow.

2. Jango Jim

Jango Jim is an Antwerp based artist, who as he puts it, creates “trippy, colourful, cosmic, coffee-infused illustrations, comics, animations and murals”—we couldn’t agree more! His humorous illustrations are playful and will surely make you smile. Travel inspires his work and you can see references to psychedelic art and pop culture. He’s been commissioned for television, editorial and brands like VICE, Dr. Martens, Converse and Disney. We particularly loved the illustration series he created for VICE Belgium related to articles on food and the habits of famous people.

3. Tim Bisschop

Tim Bisschop has been working as a graphic designer in Bruges since 2011. He’s done some incredible work for book design, posters, magazines and cool branding projects, working with amazing clients like Studio David Lynch, Anton Corbijn, Erwin Olaf, Stephan Vanfleteren, Aperture, Prestel Publishing and Thames and Hudson. For the Belgian photographer, Sanne De Wilde, we were really impressed with his book design for The Island of the Colorblind. The book cover is UV sensitive and changes colour from white to blue when exposed to sunlight! Each detail within the book is carefully considered from the colours of the photos to the paper stock.

4. Davy Denduyver

Davy Denduyver is a multidisciplinary creative from Bruges and leads the creative direction for his clothing brand Lost in the World and Studio Dada which focuses on art direction, photography and design for culture, fashion and music sectors. For the Open Ateliers project, he created a visual identity curating different objects from the artist studios in the building, which formed the basis for the campaign. We loved the choice of colours and experimental typography in the design.

5. Charlotte Dumortier

The Antwerp based illustrator Charlotte Dumortier creates murals and illustrations for magazines, newspapers, posters. In her free time, she enjoys working on yum yum zines, screen printing and in the process of illustrating her first book, The Orange Who Ruled The World by Benjamin Rosenbaum which will be released this year by Mascot Press. She’s been commissioned by some big names too—Apple and Uniqlo! And for the Creative Mornings “Surreal” theme, she created the above illustration. Isn’t it cute?

6. Sören Selleslagh

Sören Selleslagh is an illustrator from Mechelen who strives to create “visually appealing images people can relate to” using bright colours and bold shapes. For each work, he draws inspiration from the environment to bring the stories to life. He also works as an animator for Volstok, an animation studio in Ghent.

7. Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror is a design agency from Antwerp specializing in branding and visual communications for clients within the commercial and cultural space. They blend their collective expertise in advertising, branding, illustration and art direction to create cohesive brand identities for clients around the world such as Uniqlo, Campo art auction house and Creative Belgium Awards. For the 2018 awards campaign, they created a black and white identity, including posters, a website, social media and motion design that reflected the “vibrancy of dance music with echoing typography and a dynamic set of visuals”.  They even created a techno anthem at the awards show to bring Creative Belgium to the club, literally.

Want to see the full list of creatives around the world? The latest countries we covered in the series are Portugal, Australia, Argentina and South Korea!

Feeling inspired? Check out our #ILoveTheseGuys series to discover more creative studios from around the world! Or become a graphic designer yourself—study design in three months full-time or nine months part-time in London, Manchester, New York, Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne with Shillington.

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November 12, 2019 is an important day in the history of Venice. The high tide that flooded the entire city reached 187 cm and ruined many facilities and homes. Venice has always dealt with the problems that come with high tide and with the fact that it’s a city on water, but never has a high tide caused so many problems since 1966, when the water reached almost 2 m above sea level. The hardship that the recent high tide brought among Venetians hasn’t however weakened there strong and resilient character.

Each and every problem has been dealt with great courage and by everyone rolling up their sleeves. There are many stories, like the recent campaign started by Vogue, who decided to print illustrated-covered copies and all the money they collect, will be donated to Querini Stampalia Foundation, that saw many antique volumes destroyed.

Thus, I would like to talk about another aid project concerning the Fallani Venezia, a historical serigraphy studio founded in 1968 based in Venice. They too had many problems with the high tide, as the flooding has damaged a lot of their machinery and materials, which had allowed them over the years to bring the works of numerous artists and illustrators who attended the printing house to life. The Fallani Venezia prints high-quality serigraph editions inherited his passion for this art from his father Fiorenzo, who worked with more than 200 artists from all other the world realising over 1000 prints. Alongside the production of commissioned prints, they have been for several years now proposing a wide range of workshops and hosting multiple residencies both for amateurs and those who would like to experience the process firsthand.

The “Chronicles from a Sunken City” project involves a group of artists – both old and new to the studio – each of whom designed an artwork related to the city of Venice. Bruno Bozzetto, Ale Giorgini, Riccardo Guasco, Franco Matticchio, Andy Rementer, Jacopo Rosati, Guido Scarabottolo, Lucio Schiavon and Olimpia Zagnoli have decided to donate one of their illustrations to the Fallani serigraphy studio to allow Gianpaolo, deus ex machina of this laboratory, not only to restart his business with new screen printings, but also to replace the broken machinery.

Follow @positive_mag on twitter for the last updates https://www.positive-magazine.com/chronicles-from-a-sunken-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chronicles-from-a-sunken-city

November 12, 2019 is an important day in the history of Venice. The high tide that flooded the entire city reached 187 cm and ruined many facilities and homes. Venice has always dealt with the problems that come with high tide and with the fact that it’s a city on water, but never has a high tide caused so many problems since 1966, when the water reached almost 2 m above sea level. The hardship that the recent high tide brought among Venetians hasn’t however weakened there strong and resilient character.

Each and every problem has been dealt with great courage and by everyone rolling up their sleeves. There are many stories, like the recent campaign started by Vogue, who decided to print illustrated-covered copies and all the money they collect, will be donated to Querini Stampalia Foundation, that saw many antique volumes destroyed.

Thus, I would like to talk about another aid project concerning the Fallani Venezia, a historical serigraphy studio founded in 1968 based in Venice. They too had many problems with the high tide, as the flooding has damaged a lot of their machinery and materials, which had allowed them over the years to bring the works of numerous artists and illustrators who attended the printing house to life. The Fallani Venezia prints high-quality serigraph editions inherited his passion for this art from his father Fiorenzo, who worked with more than 200 artists from all other the world realising over 1000 prints. Alongside the production of commissioned prints, they have been for several years now proposing a wide range of workshops and hosting multiple residencies both for amateurs and those who would like to experience the process firsthand.

The “Chronicles from a Sunken City” project involves a group of artists – both old and new to the studio – each of whom designed an artwork related to the city of Venice. Bruno Bozzetto, Ale Giorgini, Riccardo Guasco, Franco Matticchio, Andy Rementer, Jacopo Rosati, Guido Scarabottolo, Lucio Schiavon and Olimpia Zagnoli have decided to donate one of their illustrations to the Fallani serigraphy studio to allow Gianpaolo, deus ex machina of this laboratory, not only to restart his business with new screen printings, but also to replace the broken machinery.

Follow @positive_mag on twitter for the last updates https://www.positive-magazine.com/chronicles-from-a-sunken-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chronicles-from-a-sunken-city

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26 July 2019 — 11 August 2019
Melbourne

An ode to all things home-cooked, store bought and take away, All You Can Eat at Brunswick Street Gallery brings together artists from a range of disciplines to serve up a visual feast honouring all that’s edible.

We’re especially excited to see Shillington graduate Heidi FitzGerald in the line-up!

Featured artists: Alex Vasic, Alexia Novella, Andrea Valdivia, Belinda Hearn, Billie Justice Thomson, Brendan Hehir, Caitlin Poduska, Caroline Esbenshade, Christine Lewis, Daniel Schache, Di Diddle, Elsie Dusting, Emily Amaryllis, Erin Reynolds, Eugene von Nagy, Gemma Mitting, Heidi FitzGerald, Henry Trumble, Hugo Mathias, I Make Soft Food,  Jasmine Poole & Chris Sewell, JB Knibbs, Jo Ryan, Jorja Leary, Karla Andreica, Karlina Mitchell, Laurence Usher Ceramics, Liu Liling, Maggie Parkes, Matt Chun, Meg Kolac, Mike Adey, Natalie Blom, Nathalia Suizu, Olivia York, Paula Maggs, Plush Magic, Prudence Illingworth, Rachel Doller, Rebecca Tristenne Murphy, Rita Attwood, Rose Wintergreen, Sam Stevens, Sarah Zilberman, Shannon Mary, Tegan Iversen and Timothy Perkins.

Curator: Jacqui Burnes. Curatorial Assistant: Kelly Lawrence.

Find out more and plan your visit

https://www.shillingtoneducation.com/blog/can-eat-brunswick-street-gallery/

Follow these Illustrators on Instagram

Hate social media bringing you down? Hate scrolling and slowly feeling down about yourself as the posts roll by? Follow these ten illustrators on Instagram we suggest below and you’ll perk right up. We promise!

We are all about inspiration these days. We have started a Facebook group for creatives and hope you’ll join. Head to the We Are Weapons – Go Media Creative Crew on Facebook and request to join in on the conversation.

A few more notes before the inspiration begins:

A space that honors the importance of choosing self-care over self-harm.

Empowering creative ladies! Started by @jessicavwalsh
powered by awesome ladies worldwide in over 200 cities.

THEY/THEM pls | queer trans artist & activist

A way of being | A space for embodied wisdom

Original artwork © Dani DiPirro
DC-area artist + author

illustrator trying her best

infamous anti-socialite and pug lady

London Based Artist & Social Issues Advocate

https://gomedia.com/zine/inspiration/web-roundup/inspirational-illustrators-instagram/