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Toney Bevilacqua Tony Bevilacqua was born in 1979 and has been an artist from an early age. He first mastered drawing Garfield, then moved on to more challenging subject matter. After completing a painting degree at Massachusetts College of Art in 2001, he worked as a decorative painter while also producing work as a fine artist. Last year with his partner Alicia Cornwell, Tony began Chroma Lab, a custom furniture restoration and painting business. He most recently showed his work at the Fourth Wall Project in Boston. |
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Bumble Belly Designs After a career as a professional photographer and the birth of her two
children, Amy Keller started Bumble Belly Designs. Her inspiration comes from
her children and her childhood memories: summers spent on the cape
sailing, discovering creatures on the beach, her mom reading shipwreck
stories and going on mermaid hunts on the full moon. She has found
that encaustics (painting with beeswax) is the perfect medium. |
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Alison Cole Allison Cole is an artist living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 with a BFA in Printmaking. Since graduation, Allison has dedicated her time to freelance illustration, participating in gallery shows, and creating cute and fun things for her online store, Bang Bang You're Thread. |
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Dyslexic Press Adam Yothers, founder of The Dyslexic Press, has always been interested in images. While many people think of images as being superficial, he sees them as an important component of our cultural language. Borrowing symbols & signs from the visual environment, he rearranges well-known icons into new contexts to evoke new meanings. From the whimsical to the political, Adam’s designs offer a twist on familiar ideas. The name, The Dyslexic Press, is inspired by the nature of dyslexia as an inability to comprehend language combined with a tendency to rearrange letters and a press as a place that produces printed material. |
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Family Dinner for One FDF1 (Family Dinner for One) is husband and wife team Seth and Beth Marois. They became a business in spring of 2006 drawing from Seth's screen printing talent, Beth's love of tees, and an admittedly weird-ass sense of humor. They hand screen print each and every FDF1 tee in their studio in Kingston, MA. |
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Leah Giberson After receiving her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1997, Leah Giberson made her living as an interactive designer and art director in Boston for over ten years, painting only periodically. Thanks in great part to the audience she’s found through various online art sites, she has been able to paint almost full time since the spring of 2008. She begins her pieces with photographs of seemingly ordinary and mundane scenes, which she then paints directly upon to distill and reveal the visually poignant moments that exist all around us, but are usually overlooked. Despite all the suburban scenes and mid-century modern design in her work, she was actually raised by artists deep in the woods of New Hampshire and now lives and works on the top floor of a sunny triple-decker apartment in Brookline. |
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Ink Design Wing Ngan (aka inkdesigner) runs a small design office, Ink Design Inc., in Boston and makes Gocco screenprints as an escape of the reality. Topics of the print surround daily life in hopes that the graphic will add a bit of flavor into everyday life. |
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JHill Design JHill Design's collection, "Places I Have Never Been", revolves around Jennifer Hill's drawings of her imaginary vacations. "I research different intriguing places and then let my imagination go! Each piece includes tid-bits of information about the place that inspired the pattern." The patterns are currently available as calendars and limited edition prints.
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Kyle Jonasen Kyle began making shirts by spray painting through crude cardboard stencils made of old cereal boxes. He soon outgrew cardboard and his prints have matured to include a variety of witty, sarcastic, and humorous designs. All of the designs are lovingly hand-cut out of acetate sheets and screen printed onto shirts by Kyle, who adds paint and stitching where necessary. Initially run out of a basement in the Midwest, the business has travelled between a freezing bedsit in Rome to an apartment on Oahu, Hawaii, settling currently in a Boston dorm room. A Korean-adoptee, an American with Nordic leanings—and currently an architecture student at Northeastern University— Kyle boasts a reputation as that guy in the studio who works constantly and never sleeps (inspiring the “architecture ruined my life.” shirt). His paying customer base reflects this diversity and ranges from French-born, Danish architects to world champion gymnasts.
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Nervous System Nervous System was founded in 2007 by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Jessica Rosenkrantz graduated from MIT in 2005 and holds degrees in Architecture and Biology. She is currently studying towards her MArch degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jesse Louis-Rosenberg also attended MIT, majoring in Mathematics. He previously worked as a consultant for Gehry Technologies in building modeling and design automation. They created Nervous System to explore a design approach that relates process and form in a context of interactivity and openness. Their trajectory focuses on generative design methods using both algorithmic and physical tools to create innovative products and environments.
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Katie Rowley Katie Rowley has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. Her focus has always been on drawing people, and growing up with three siblings and a nursery school in her home supplied endless inspiration for her playful images. Her style lends itself to capturing fleeting interpersonal moments and her method of drawing with the eye dropper from a bottle of ink allows for purposeful imperfection. The phrases that accompany many of her drawings are often biting and sarcastic, in contrast to the cuteness of the images. The words are created one letter at a time using "fingerprint writing", in which she draws each letter backwards on her finger and stamps it onto the paper, like a mini-monoprint.
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Jenn Ski Jenn Ski is an award-winning graphic designer and artist, with a passion for modern and mid-20th century art and design. In her work, she strives to balance these seemingly unrelated forces. The result is artwork that, while beautifully delicate, is incredibly sophisticated and, in one word, cool. Jennski.com opened in June of 2007, offering her original pieces, as well as giclée prints of her digital art. |
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Two Trick Pony Two Trick Pony is owned and operated in the Boston area by Laurie Mee and Carrie Siegel. Since 2006, we have been illustrating, typesetting, and screen printing by hand an ever-growing collection of cards, invitations, and prints. Our cards and invites have been featured on blogs such as Design*Sponge, Poppytalk, Paper Crave, Creature Comforts, and The Bedlam of Beefy, as well as Stationery Trends Magazine. Two Trick Pony is also featured in a new book written by Eunice and Sabrina Moyle of Hello!Lucky called "Handmade Hellos." |
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Viva Ortegacy Dave Ortega's tees and mini-comics have been featured at the Renegade Craft Fair, The Young Designer's Market (NYC), Stitch (Austin), Art Beat, the Bazaar Bizarre, The South End Open Market, Wears and Wares, and The Small Press Expo (Bethesda, MD). He is a proud member of theMiracle5 art superhero group. |
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Erica von Schilgen Ever since she was a little girl, Erica von Schilgen took things apart and tried to figure out how they worked. This childhood sense of play is still what inspires her work today. She collects old photographs, magazines, and objects of family history and uses these along with handmade cranks and pulleys, as part of her "mechanical collages." Erica received her BFA in sculpture in 2002 from Massachusetts College of Art. and currently works fulltime at her studio in Jamaica Plain, MA. |
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Susy Pilgrim Waters Susy has drawn since she could hold a pencil. She is an illustrator, designer and painter whose work is used extensively in print advertising, book and magazine publishing, and commercial licensing. Her signature style combines color, shapes, and wit, for vibrant evocative results. Having completed murals for restaurants, the New York city library and other large scale commissions, nothing is too big or small for Susy to work on. |
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The 47th The 47th is a happy new creative consultancy in the Boston area. Besides professional design for beloved clients, the 47th is hard at work on a conceptual magazine, various design applications to promote positive public interactions, and a mod textile design series. |
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