Ron Chan
web site

Ron Chan has been a prominent illustrator in the digital arts field since the invention of the term. In 1987, he was one of the first artists to ever utilize a ground breaking drawing application called Picasso, later to be called Adobe Illustrator. Ron's work has appeared internationally and includes such clients as Strathmore Papers, Boise Cascade, American Express, Business Week, United States Olympic Committee, The Blue Note Tokyo, The New York Times, CompUSA and the Wall Street Journal. Numerous books and publications have also featured his work. Ron works out of his home in Mill Valley, CA, and spends a lot of time arguing on the phone with fellow illustrator Bud Peen about the San Francisco Giants.

Seymour Chwast
web site

As co-founder of Push Pin Studios, and currently director of the Pushpin Group, Seymour Chwast reintroduced graphic styles and transformed them into a contemporary vocabulary. His designs and illustrations have been used in advertising, animated films, and editorial, corporate, and environmental graphics. He has created over 100 posters and has designed and illustrated more than thirty children's books. His work has been the subject of three books including, Seymour Chwast: The Left Handed Designer (Abrams, 1985). Many museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.) and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), have collected his posters. He has lectured and exhibited worldwide and is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of the 1985 Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Artist.

Ann Field
web site

Ann Field's award-winning collages and bright illustrations are universally recognised to inspire. Educated at Brighton College of Art in England, she was mentored there by British illustrator Raymond Briggs... best known for his "Mr Snowman" children's books and movie. After graduating with a BA and emigrating to the United States, Ann worked with renowned fashion Illustrator Antonio Lopez in the Dominican Republic, and settled in Los Angeles. She has been featured in Communication Arts and Step Inside Design. and received awards from the Society of Illustrators of NewYork, Annual Report 100 "Best illustrated", American Illustration, CA, Print and Graphis. Her clients include Levis' jeans for women, Barbie, Hard Rock Hotel, Nike and Lexus. And her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Design Museum.

Chair of the Promotions Commmittee for the ICON Conference, and a member of the Advisory Board of the AIGA Los Angeles, Ann also lectures and gives workshops on creativity for the design and illustration community including HOW, Envision, AIGA, Portfolio Center, Otis College and Art Center College of Design.

Bill Finewood
web site

I have been in the illustration and graphic design business since 1974 with the majority of experience as a studio owner. My illustrations have been commissioned by clients including Kodak, Xerox, Mobil, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Nalge Company, Time, Ziff-Davis, Fisher-Price Toys, numerous national magazines, Habitat for Humanity and Strong Memorial Hospital.

My dimensional illustration has been exhibited in shows including the Society of Illustrators and the Dimensional and Digital Illustrators Awards Show.

In addition to my activities as an illustrator I am also Assistant Professor of Illustration at Rochester Institute of Technology. I earned my MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University.

Craig Frazier
web site

Craig Frazier has owned his own design firm since 1978. He has designed trademarks, brochures, annual reports, packaging, posters and advertising. He has received numerous awards and has been recognized internationally for his design. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts (February 1991), Critique Magazine (Summer 1996, Autumn 1996) and Graphis No. 340 (July/August 2002). He is a frequent lecturer and juror for design organizations and publications around the country. He has been an instructor at California College of Arts and Crafts, and a guest instructor at the Kent State Summer Graduate Program.

Craig has published a 176-page monograph titled The Illustrated Voice (Graphis Press 2003.) He has also publishing two children's books titled The Tiny Brown Seed and There is a Monkey in My Drawers. His daughter Daniele Frazier is the author of The Tiny Brown Seed.

Bryan Leister
web site

Bryan Leister graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.F.A. in 1985. Bryan shares an Alexandria, Virginia studio with his wife, illustrator Becky Heavner. He has received awards from such organizations as Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, AIGA, The Society of Illustrators in New York and The Art Director's Club of Washington, DC. His realistic oil paintings have been featured on many products, book and magazine covers including Time, The Atlantic Monthly, American Express, Celestial Seasonings, Stern, and the New Republic. Some of his paintings can be seen at www.leisterstudios.com.

In 1997, Bryan produced a new digital style using abstract figures and 3-D elements. Clients for his digital work include American Express, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Kiplingers, IBM, Verizon, and the Wall Street Journal. In 1999, after the first Illustration Conference, Bryan and fellow illustrator Randy Lyhus started Folioplanet.com, a website that provides artists with tools to build websites and searchable databases.

Steffanie Lorig
web site

Steffanie is founder and director of Art with Heart, a community outreach that began under AIGA/Seattle Chapter, where she served on the board of directors from 1995-2002. She is a designer, closet-illustrator and author with numerous awards. Before starting her own one-person design studio, she most recently worked at Hornall Anderson, an internationally-known design firm. Previously, she was Creative Director at a software company and taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. Her book, "Oodles of Doodles", an activity book for chronically ill children, has been endorsed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Make A Wish Foundation and the Starbright Foundation.

Joe Morse
web site

Joe graduated from Ontario College of Art in fine arts/printmaking. He lived and studied in Florence Italy and was awarded study grants to San Miguel de Allende Mexico, and Kyoto Japan.

His work has won over 60 international awards including 9 times in American Illustration. Clients include Nike, Coca Cola, Land Rover, Universal Pictures, American Express, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and ESPN.

He directs the Bachelor of Illustration and post degree Advanced Illustration programs at Sheridan ITAL. He lives in Toronto with his wife illustrator Lorraine Tuson and their two children.

Bud Peen
web site

Bud Peens work has found its way into a wide range of award winning projects: from editorial illustration, to multimedia design; from building sets, to designing his own line of furniture. An abbreviated client list includes Starbucks, National Geographic, United Airlines, Nordstroms, MacWorld, Samsung, Playboy and the Los Angeles Times. His first illustrated children's book, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" was Harry N. Abrams first digitally produced book. Industrial design includes a line of chinoiserie inspired bedroom furniture, retro lamp designs, and clocks for Toronto based Umbra, Ltd.

Bud Peens work has been featured in "Photoshop-Studio Secrets" , "Illustrator Masters", and "Photoshop 6-Gold Edition" as well as in Communication Arts, Web, SDS Digital Design, Step-by-Step, Japan's Graphix Design, and How Magazine. He has lectured at colleges and conferences across the country, taught illustration at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and is on the Graduate Review Board for New Media at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Bud also created and chaired the Graphic Artists Guilds Contract Committee, founded the Guild's Contract Monitor email newsletter, was chair of the Advocacy Committee and a member of the Guilds Executive board. He was awarded the National Service Award for his work in copyright and contract issues.

Whitney Sherman
web site

Trained as a photographer, self taught in illustration and design, Whitney Sherman's work is commissioned by clients nationally and in Canada. Her work has been selected for AI, ADCNY, ADCMW. ADCSF, CA, Print Regional, SINY, SILA and The Bank Street College of Education (NY) Children's Book Committee and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. She is represented nationally by Gerald & Cullen Rapp, Inc., NY. Sherman is the Chair of Illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and a contributor to the recently published The Education of an Illustrator, edited by Marshall Arisman and Steven Heller.

Molly Zakrajsek
web site

Molly Zakrajsek attended Bowling Green State University, earning a BFA in graphic design. She began her career working for Charles Anderson Design Company where she managed and illustrated countless American advertising icons from her favorite eras, the 1920s-1960s. The result of her effort was a book called The CSA Archive which led to the development of her graphic illustration style. She then returned to her home in Cleveland, Ohio to form two design companies, one specializing in event design and promotional graphics and the other a T shirt design company. While in Cleveland, she helped to found Northern Ohio Illustrators Society. After a few years of being on her own, she decided to collaborate with Siebert Design Associates (Olika) in Cincinnati as a full time designer and illustrator.

Currently, she operates an illustration studio in the Guildhaus Building in downtown Cincinnati. Her work is featured in the "Fresh" section of the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of Communication Arts. Some of her clients include Target, E-Entertainment, Totes Isotoner, How Magazine, and Utopia Papers. Last year she illustrated her first children's book, The Phenomenal Foam Flyer Book published by Innovative Kids and she continues seeking projects that inspire kids to learn.

She works traditionally by hand to bring her quirky icons to life and then electronically to give them a colorful place to exist. She loves art in all forms, travelling and laughing as often as possible.