Illustration

INTERVIEW | Keyi Liu

INTERVIEW | Keyi Liu

China-born, London-based Keyi Liu is a Multimedia artist and Illustrator. Her works often take the confrontational relationship between human nature and societal rules as a starting point, analyzing the changes in human psychology under the oppression of various societal issues. The Last Dream series is a collection of illustrations created during the 2021 pandemic, exploring my reflections on constraints and freedom.

INTERVIEW | Bingjie BJ Cui

INTERVIEW | Bingjie BJ Cui

Bingjie B.J. Cui is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals the whimsical and ethnic beauties behind our visual world. With an academic background spanning environmental science, urban planning and design, and illustration, she is passionate about interweaving science fiction, poetry, and art to create an inspiring and vibrant visual experience.

INTERVIEW | Esther Tang

INTERVIEW | Esther Tang

Esther Tang is an illustrator and designer based in New York City. Her approach involves seamlessly blending traditional drawing techniques with modern computer-aided methods to craft her pieces. As an illustrator, she thinks that her value resides in expressing her opinions and presenting issues through her work, inspiring her audience, and igniting discussions.

INTERVIEW | Jinming Gao

INTERVIEW | Jinming Gao

As an Asian designer, Jinming Gao frequently grapples with the prevailing state of Chinese culture and its superficial utilization of oriental elements. Jinming Gao's design philosophy revolves around the seamless integration of Eastern and Western influences within the commercial realm, all while pushing the boundaries to create work that resonates globally.

INTERVIEW | Yun Yao

INTERVIEW | Yun Yao

Yun Yao is a Chinese artist and illustrator, currently based in California. She finds inspiration in the diversity of materials and the endless possibilities they offer for visual storytelling. Yun's work aims to explore a range of themes, from personal experiences to abstract concepts, with the ultimate goal of connecting with her audience on an instinctual level.

INTERVIEW | Skyler Yixian Liu

INTERVIEW | Skyler Yixian Liu

Skyler Yixian Liu is a Chinese artist and printmaker who works and lives in London, UK. Her works focus on traumas, memories, grief, the spirituality of human experiences, and loss. The artist explores the internal struggles of anxiety and traumas throughout her series of stone lithography prints. She questions the existence of nothingness in the distortion of portraits.

INTERVIEW | Jikke Lesterhuis

INTERVIEW | Jikke Lesterhuis

Jikke Lesterhuis is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, currently based in Amsterdam. She never stopped drawing from the moment she learned how to use a pencil. Jikke currently focuses on ways to bring the 2D medium into a 3D space. Using her curiosity and eagerness to learn, she keeps discovering new sides of herself that reflect in her work.

INTERVIEW | Fangyu Ma

INTERVIEW | Fangyu Ma

Fangyu Ma is a Chinese illustrator designer. Most of her artworks are created digitally. She loves exploring different subject matters in her work. Her works are divided into two parts: decorative illustrations and narrative illustrations. She uses animals as a medium and tries to use different angles to describe them, which challenges the traditional way of perceiving things.

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Hsuan Lu

INTERVIEW | Kuan-Hsuan Lu

Kuan-Hsuan Lu is an artist and illustrator from Taiwan. Art is Kuan-Hsuan Lu’s language and uses it to convey and record her thoughts and the world. This language has bold colors and styles, as well as different painting mediums. She is passionate about trying different mediums, and she is not afraid of changes. Changes will make her art convey ideas in more appropriate words.

INTERVIEW | Hanyue Song

INTERVIEW | Hanyue Song

Hanyue Song is a designer of visual communications from Shanghai who currently resides in California. Her work examines the confluence of several disciplines, including visual design, branding & marketing design, user experience, and project planning in kid education. Her work styles are wide and varied due to her multidisciplinary background, which extends beyond her use of commercial or spontaneous artistic creations.

INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao

INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao

Wenxu Zhao is an illustration artist, born in China and currently living in New York. Her work focuses primarily on invention and fantasy. Her artwork and paintings are inspired by her daydreams, her discovery of beauty in life, her self-reflection, and her views on certain aspects of life. Her purpose is to express her emotions and thoughts while also bringing beauty and warmth to the rush and chaos of modern life.

INTERVIEW | Broly Su

INTERVIEW | Broly Su

Born and raised in Changsha, China, Broly Su is an Atlanta-based illustrator and graphic designer. Broly creates most of his work digitally, taking inspiration from hip-hop music, graffiti, sneakers, toys, and street culture. Heavily influenced by artists like Kenny Scharf, Steven Harrington, and Gang Box, Broly creates in a consistent style working with ink, acrylic, posca markers, and ballpoint pens to achieve his bold-lined and graffiti drawing style.

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu

Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.

INTERVIEW | Hannah Meng

INTERVIEW | Hannah Meng

Hannah Meng is a New York-based graphic designer, art director, and illustrator with a passion for branding, exhibition design, website design, and motion graphics. Her projects often address complex social issues, amplifying activism on gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights. She has collaborated with leading cultural institutions, universities, and tech companies.

INTERVIEW | Moree Wu

INTERVIEW | Moree Wu

Moree Wu is an award-winning art director, graphic designer & illustrator. In her artworks, she has always tried to use graphics to recreate some interesting aspects of daily life that may be inadvertently overlooked, aiming to convey a series of subtle emotional & sensational changes that flow in her mind and life. "Whimsical Simplicity" & "Playful Poetry" are the ultimate goal she has been exploring.

INTERVIEW | Ronit Keret

INTERVIEW | Ronit Keret

Ronit Keret’s recent work deals with the ecological crisis, the melting glaciers that have been changing due to the nature of human activity. The Installations that Keret creates are formed as a reaction to the given display space and the nature of the material she uses itself. Keret describes the transitions between good and evil in looking at human and nature relations and the gap between childhood dreams and catastrophic reality.

INTERVIEW | Izosceles

INTERVIEW | Izosceles

American visual artist Izosceles produces vibrant, fun pop-ish visual compositions that are irresistible and attention-grabbing. Heavily influenced by pop cartoons, the artist hopes to make them a serious contender in the art world that are just as worthy of admiration and attention as fine art paintings.