Anita Kunz has been working as an editorial illustrator for more years than many of our younger Profiles readers have been alive (she got an early start!). But her work remains as energetic and forward-looking as ever-if not more so-as she continues to expand and develop both her art and her craft. Kunz has created an ongoing series of brilliant high-profile illustrations for the … Read the full Story >>
Gracia Lam creates quiet, beautiful images that tell powerful stories. Her masterful combination of elegant technique and nuanced storytelling has been showcased in high concept illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Real Simple, and other publications. There's a classic sensibility and a modern edge to Gracia's work that creates a visual tension that is spare and intimate-and lovely to see. With … Read the full Story >>
Samantha Hahn is a Brooklyn-based artist who has created distinctively stylish fashion and beauty illustrations for numerous outlets, including Glamour and The Cut, as well as illustrating New York Fashion Week for the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She also has a distinctive hand lettering style that has appeared in "everything from captions in the Paris Review to Marie Claire magazine cover lines." … Read the full Story >>
Manhattan is home to a host of independent booksellers who offer illustrated books sure to stimulate the eye and the spirit – especially as the Holidays loom large. Today, DART tags some of the best places to get that special gift for the bibliophile in your life. Leading the list are a few books signings by noted artists and photographers. Illustration, left, by Istvan … Read the full Story >>
Marcos Chin is a multi-talented illustrator and artist whose recent work has been featured on everything from custom T-shirt designs to a new edition of the Kama Sutra and a hipster reimagination of the classic Eloise book. His vibrant editorial illustrations have graced the pages of Fortune, Nautilus, Ebony, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines. Read the full Story >>
Harry Campbell creates illustrations that are super smart, highly stylish, consistently modern, and very cool looking. His brilliantly executed and designed vector drawings have become a mainstay in countless magazines and newspapers, most notably in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He always amazes with his ability to illustrate and explain deep, complex stories with simples lines and colors. Harry's illustrations … Read the full Story >>
Frank Viva is an image-maker, art director, brand developer, and highly-talented illustrator whose artwork appears regularly in The New York Times and on the cover of The New Yorker. His Toronto-based Viva & Co. studio does branding, product design, corporate identities, digital and website design, as well as traditional print design work, but it's Frank's bold, stylish, retro-modern illustrations, most notably on 10 covers … Read the full Story >>
Jeffrey Decoster is an illustrator based in Pasadena, California. He creates striking images with pencils, paints, and "any media at hand that will get the job done." Decoster has done editorial illustrations for The New Yorker, Eight By Eight, Time, The New York Times and many more; much of his work deals with complex issues such as mental illness and domestic violence. Decoster is … Read the full Story >>
Josef Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is arguably one of the most significant works of fiction in the modern era. First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, at the height of European imperial wealth and corruption, the novella, which can be read on a slow evening, set the stage for 20th-century masterpieces such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and later, Francis Ford … Read the full Story >>
Adam McCauley is a San Francisco-based illustrator who has been creating smart, cool, diverse artwork since the late 1980s. In addition to doing extensive editorial illustration work, McCauley has written and illustrated a stack of delightful children's books. In his spare time, he plays music with the band Bermuda Triangle Service (check them out and their great LPs here). And if that's not enough, … Read the full Story >>
John Hendrix is a remarkable illustrator who fuses his experience as an art director with a brilliant storyteller's talents and a fluid, detailed drawing style. John's illustrations, maps, and typography have been seen in the page and on the covers of countless magazines and publications, and he has a rich collection of children's books that he has both written and illustrated. Read the full Story >>
When you first look at photographer Greg Boratyn's meticulously crafted landscape images, it's almost inevitable that the work of another great nature master, Ansel Adams, comes immediately to mind. It's the obvious reverence both share for nature at its most dramatic moments and their ability to capture it with perfect craftsmanship that begs the comparison. In today's edition of the Pro Photo Daily Master … Read the full Story >>
Nora Krug is an illustrator, artist, and creator of what she describes as "visual narratives." In addition to her frequent editorial illustrations for publications including The New York Times and The Guardian, she has created a striking series of illustrated books and graphic novels, most notably Kamikaze, about a World War 2 Japanese pilot, and Red Riding Hood Redux, a remix of the classic … Read the full Story >>
Gary Taxali is an illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His distinctive "pop surrealism" imagery has appeared in countless magazines and publications, books, CD covers, product design, and even a series of coins created by the Royal Canadian Mint. Taxali has also had his art exhibited in galleries around the world. He'll be part of the Cluster group show opening August 3 … Read the full Story >>
Jordan Awan is a classic double-threat visual creator. He is the art director of MIT Technology Review and a former art director of The New Yorker who has had his design work recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, Type Directors Club, and more. At the same time, Awan is an accomplished illustrator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New … Read the full Story >>
Wildlife and nature have been the heart and soul of photographer Daniel J. Cox's career since he first began selling his images to outdoor magazines when he was 21 years old. His wildlife photo career started in earnest when he discovered his first bread-and-butter subject -- the whitetail deer that populated the woods around his home in northern Minnesota. Today he is an award-winning … Read the full Story >>
Eric Nyquist is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, artist and educator. His illustrations have appeared in many publications, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Nautilus and Audubon magazines, as well as on a series of covers for The New York Times Book Review section. Nyquist's work has also appeared on book covers, Beck tour merchandise, murals for NASA, and much more. His illustrations are rich … Read the full Story >>
On her website, Laura Hicks describes herself as a "keep-it-simple kind of girl" with a love of nature - including bugs, frogs and spiders - as well as a passionate traveler, a collector of shoes who prefers going barefoot and an avid reader who often stays up far too late in the night. She is also a talented and successful high-school-senior portrait and wedding … Read the full Story >>
Photojournalist Eli Reed is living proof that successful careers are often born of a healthy mix of talent, luck and steadfast perseverance in the face of adversity. The first black photographer to join Magnum as a full member, his work has been published in National Geographic, Life, People, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Sports Illustrated and many … Read the full Story >>
After 30 years of traveling around the world for publications like Time, the New York Times, Le Monde, Washington Post, Newsweek and Vogue, Anne Day settled in a small town in northwestern Connecticut where she and her husband raised their three children. There, Day built a successful photo business shooting weddings, architecture and portraits, in addition to her own fine-art work. Then in 2013, … Read the full Story >>
