ARTISTS
Ryan & Lucy Berkley 
Ryan is the illustrator and Lucy is the photographer but they both like to do the other thing on occasion. Ryan is a comics inspired gentleman surrounded by toys and Chewbacca masks. He likes drawing sharks and animals and creatures and daredevils and superheroes. Sometimes he combines all of them - sometimes they are on their own - it really depends on his mood. Ryan and Lucy are both loving Etsy very much and they do arty craft shows around the United States. When they aren't working (when is that?) they love to travel - especially in the road trip format. They also love being vegan and making and finding new vegan food.
Chelsea Erhart
Chelsea Erhart grew up in a military family. Living in over 20 towns across the world before she was of age gave Chelsea a unique understanding of personal identity and dress. After obtaining a degree in World History and many years of apparel production management, she released her first collection in 2005. Under her last name, Erhart, it quickly developed into a trendy lifestyle line with international distribution. She continually channels her past, history, and the streets of life for inspiration.
DAVID FENTON
David Fenton is an Oakland-based photographer. His clients range from Sunset to Adidas to the US Army. Look for him on assignment, clutching his beloved Pentax 67, waiting for the whole digital thing to blow over.
Susie Ghahremani
Susie Ghahremani is a 2002 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a BFA in Illustration. Her artwork combines her love of nature, animals, music and patterns. Born and raised in Chicago, Susie now happily spends her time painting, drawing, crafting and tending to her pet finches and cat in San Diego, CA.
Giddy Girlie
Whether Giddy Girlie's work is art or craft is open to interpretation. What is certain is that she applies a very specific (and odd) sense of humor to her work that is heavily influenced by pop culture, interpreted by old fashioned methods of handicraft. Her busy little hands love monotonous handiwork, including various forms of needlework (embroidery, cross stitch, needle felting, etc.), sewing, sculpting, pottery, and painting. Giddy Girlie lives with her husband and happy cat in Orange County, California. Learn more about the creation of these works on her blog http://giddycrafts.blogspot.com or take a souvenir home with you from her etsy shop http://giddygirlie.etsy.com.
Paul Gilmartin
When Paul Gilmartin isn’t hosting Dinner and a Movie on TBS, or performing standup around the country, he is in his garage making furniture. He enjoys doing commissions for friends and working with sustainable, domestic hardwoods. His furniture-making idols are mostly mid-century modern Danes as well as Americans Sam Maloof and George Nakashima. Paul figures that his woodworking machinery should pay for itself somewhere around his 100th birthday.
Dan Goodsell
Dan Goodsell is an artist living in Los Angeles. His work includes illustration, painting and 3D objects. The basis of his work is a fictional place called The World of Mr Toast which is inhabited by an odd assortment of characters including Mr. Toast, Joe the Egg and Shaky Bacon. His artwork chronicles the adventures and lives of these characters on the web and in books and comics. He has created many Mr Toast products including dolls, toys, jewelry, buttons and t-shirts. Dan Goodsell is a graduate of UC Irvine School of Fine Arts. He is an avid researcher of the history of advertising, theme parks and other childhood memorabilia. His collections can be seen online on his website. He is the co-author of "Krazy Kids Food" published by Taschen books.
The Harbinger Jewelry Co.
THE HARBINGER COMPANY was started by Yvonne Hung, an urban planner/artist with an insatiable appetite for designing and making extraordinary products with ordinary materials. They strive to recreate everyday objects into classic treasures—pieces that feel good to the hands, nice to the eyes, and friendly to the environment. Every design is hand drawn in conceptual phase, drafted on the computer, sent to the lasercutter, hand-assembled by the designer, and then boxed in locally printed packaging. The final result: a clean and well-crafted piece of art, made in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Martha Sue Harris
Martha Sue grew up the only child of metalwork artists in a small house in the outskirts of Tucson, AZ. The flora and fauna of the Sonoran Desert gave her an eye for the strange and wondrous in nature. She moved to the Bay Area in the early nineties to attend CCA and graduated with a degree in Film/Video and Painting. Since then, her works on paper and sculpture have been exhibited in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Montreal. She continues to work in a wide range of media including animation, drawing, painting and most notably, fabric sculpture. Martha Sue lives in San Francisco.
The Heads of State
The Heads of State is the design and illustration studio of Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers. Founded in 2002, the duo has garnered dozens of awards for their posters, illustrations, and book covers which combine a restrained graphic style with a sharp visual wit. Whether working 3,000 miles apart in New York and Seattle, or 3 feet away from one another at their new home base of Philadelphia, this duo collaborates on every detail. They've seen eye to eye and/or locked horns for clients such as The New York Times, Penguin, The School of Visual Arts, Starbucks, Wired Magazine, NPR, as well as musical acts R.E.M. and Wilco.
Jessica Makinson
Jessica Makinson (actress, comedienne, artist and co-curator of the Fleeting Immersion) water-skied her way into the hearts of 47 people on Arizona's Canyon Lake from 1984-1996. That's an average of almost 4 people per year! She's been seen as a series regular on Trigger Happy TV, Joe Schmo 2, and Comedy Central's Halfway Home. You can hear her doing voices on late night reruns on South Park. If you have an underage person in your life, they will recognize her as Miss Ackerman from Nickelodeon's iCarly. She performs improv twice weekly at I.O. West in Los Angeles with The Armondo Show, and the house team Powerhouse.
I would recommend this book to anyone.
Dan McCarthy
Dan McCarthy is an artist based Massachusetts. A big part of his life has always been making art and playing music. In the 1990’s, Dan started playing in bands and making flyers to promote shows at local venues. At the age of 18, he moved to Boston to study at The School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts, where he began screen printing and designing posters as well as painting and drawing. Dan’s artwork explores the relationship between nature and technology and the cyclical nature between life and death. Since graduating, he has been exhibiting his work in local and national galleries and has work published in "The Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion" (Grushkin/King, Chronicle Books) and "Swag 2: Rock Posters of the '90's and Beyond" (Drate/Salavetz, Abrams). Presently, Dan works as an artist and designer at his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts and plays drums in the band Helms. You can find him at www.danmccarthy.org
Phil Noto
Born in 1971, Phil Noto grew up in Florida and attended the Ringling School of Art and Design. After college he began a career in animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation. During his 10 year career at Disney he worked on such films as Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and Lilo and Stitch. In 2001, Phil started his comic career as the cover artist for DC Comics' Birds of Prey. Since then he has worked on numerous comic projects such as Beautiful Killer, Danger Girl, Jonah Hex, Superman/Supergirl : Maelstrom, Batgirl, and Avengers : The Origin along with a variety of covers for different publishers. He has had 4 solo painting shows ,been part of a number of group shows and is represented by Bold Hype Gallery in NYC. Phil currently resides in Orlando, Fl with his wife, Beth and their 2 kids, Kate and Fletcher.
Jen Renninger
Jen has worked since 1998 as an illustrator and artist, creating chic modern images that resonate with a wide range of clients. Her eyecatching work is soft yet powerful, combining sophisticated painting and line-work with nostalgic collage materials. The result is a portfolio of work honed to current trends yet rendered with a delicate hand. A selection of her client list includes: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Harper’s, Better Homes and Gardens, Bark, and Chronicle Books. Her work has also been honored by Communication Arts, Print magazine and featured in the book Fashion Illustration Now. A journal/collection of her collages has been published by Chronicle Books.
Christopher Ryan
Christopher David Ryan is a Texas-born artist, daydreamer, pseudo-scientist, wanna-be astronaut and untrained intellectual who tends to find inspiration in pretty much anything... especially music, the universe, the human condition and natural phenomena. Living and working in New York and Portland, Maine, he focuses his creative energy on both analog and digital work. His client commissions span a variety of industries including work for Victoria's Secret, Nike, Element Skateboards, Graniph, The New York Times Magazine, Obedient Sons and others. Some of his personal projects include Sleepyheads, a line of pillows and printed pieces, As Overheard In The Back Of My Mind, a series of self-published books and My Little Underground, an online shop which highlights new work quarterly.
Shapes & Colors
SHAPES & COLORS is a small independant fabric and paper textile studio located in Chicago. They create their home furnishing textiles and objects the old fashioned way, screen printed by hand on a long table in their sunny neighborhood studio. They love natural fabrics like organic cotton canvas, linen, and hemp. They use water based, non-toxic inks and have a low-impact, sustainable approch to manufactured texiles and objects. The inspiration for their work comes from California, mineral water, sounds, shapes & colors.
Divya Srinivasan
Divya Srinivasan is an illustrator and animator living in Austin, Texas. She does illustration for the New Yorker, and has done work for This American Life, Sufjan Stevens, They Might Be Giants, and Weird Al Yankovic, among others. Divya has written and illustrated a picture book, Little Owl's Night, that will be published by Viking Children's in 2011.
Still Lily Designs
Kelly lives in the countryside not far from the sea in Southern California, where she is inspired by the view from every window in her home; green rolling hills and palm trees amongst pine trees, hawks fly constantly overhead and coyotes howl throughout the night. It is here that she grows and designs all her work. Influenced by what surrounds her; nature, little bit of the wild, love of modern and vintage alike, she works with succulents and Tillandsias (air plants) for their drought tolerant & easy care ways....because as she asks 'Who doesn't love the low maintenance types?' This, along with her love of simple, clean and modern style inspires her work. She also is an interior stylist and has a small company that specializes in ReDesigning spaces utilizing what people already own. Still Lily Designs (Lily was a nickname as a child) came to life when a client asked her to create something living, simple and stylish for their home. She is driven by the aspect of creating sustainable, botanical art to enhance and add a twist of style to any space. Her designs are low maintenance, artful interpretations of natural terrains combining an innovative array of materials, often recycled and up-cycled, which range in sizes and styles & do not leave a large footprint on our lovely earth.
Thief&Bandit
Thief&Bandit is Amie Cunningham, a woodcarver, designer, and artist by way of Canada and now living and working in Richmond, VA. All Thief&Bandit fabrics are handprinted and all goods handmade with care in her Richmond studio. Items are unique and of limited edition.
Janet Varney
Janet Varney or "Janet," as she's known by people who call her by her first name-- works as an actor, writer, and producer in Los Angeles. In addition to roles on television and in film, she's in her sixth year as host of TBS's "Dinner and a Movie" and is the lead voice in a new Nickelodeon animated series. She also writes and records for Mystery Science Theatre 3000's Micheal J. Nelson at Rifftrax.com. Prior to her move to LA, she worked in San Francisco as an interior design project manager, in the buying office of an upscale home furnishings store, and as a commercial photography producer & studio manager. She is also co-founder and co-director of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival.
Kristen Wright
Kristen Wright's distinctive imagery and alternative photographic processes aren't the only thing that separate her from today's everyday digital photographer. Known for her supersaturated, pop art style, Kristen sticks to a tried and true Hassleblad camera, and yes, still actually shoots film. The raw edge that Kristen exudes through her photographs could be attributed to her extensive time spent on the road. For the last half decade, Kristen has taken her cameras all over the world - shooting in China, Brazil, Greece, and Israel in 2009 alone. Her most recent work can be seen in upcoming issues of Phoenix Magazine.
