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Tooco

Illustration, Installation

Tooco’s art is impossible to identify with one place or influence: like an other-worldly vision, it blends heterogenous inspirations into an ever-evolving cycle of organisms.

Tooco represents the sparkle of life with mathematical precision; his versatility is expressed in the broad scope of his art: from fine art to commercial art, from illustration to animation, to sculpture and installation, he projects his distinctive vision with consistency. 

Tooco lives in Argentina, where he also teaches at the University of Buenos Aires.

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James Braithwaite

Illustration, Typography, Motion, Directing

There is never a dull moment with James Braithwaite. Drawing to the beat of his own drum, James injects his characters with a memorable, offbeat personality that always comes unexpectedly. In between creating campaigns for coffee company Kenco, winning an Emmy Award for his short film “I Met The Walrus” and making documentaries for ESPN, James’ art will make your mouth smile and your brain thinks - all at once!

Since his animation success, James has worked on an abundance of projects; smearing ink wherever he goes, illustrating a book with Harper Collins, animating a short for Will Forte of SNL, and writing scripts for children’s shows, all injected with James’ cheeky sharp wit.

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Wanda Barcelona

Paper cut, Installation, Prop design

From fully immersive, large scale paper worlds to intriguing origami-style small objects, Wanda Barcelona is constantly crafting outstanding visions with passion, elegance and a touch of wonder.

Each member of the Barcelona-based trio brings a different and complementary skill to their art: Inti, the architect, is in charge of making spaces that Dani, the designer, fills with unique objects while Iris, the artist in the family, surprises you with subtle surprises.

This dynamic mix of talents gives rise to truly superb projects which fuse classical aesthetics with an avant-garde approach, tradition with innovation,  design and art, “minimalism with a maximalist profusion of different effects”.

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Jeff Rogers

Illustration, Type, Poster Design

Jeff was born in Dallas, Texas. After a stint as a tap dancer and as a drummer in a band, Jeff heard the call of art and relocated to NYC in 2008.

He then became part of design legend Gail Anderson’s SpotCo, creating posters for Broadway theatre. In May of 2010, he opened the doors to his studio where he works with a great group of clients on a wide variety of projects including custom lettering, murals, book design, branding, packaging, and posters.

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Agostino Iacurci

Painting, Mural, Digital art

Agostino Iacurci is an Italian multidisciplinary artist celebrated for his striking, synthetic forms and multilayered narratives.

“I’m interested in communicating a vision,” Agostino explains. “I think that once the artwork is out in the world, it’s like a living creature, and as a living creature, it is able to create connections.”

Agostino is renowned for his evocative, large-scale murals. However, the multiplicity of meaning innate to his art naturally lends itself to formal versatility, and he has expanded his language to embrace digital illustration, sculpture and painting.

From his 300 metre mural in the Saba School in Algeria to various collaborations with Apple, Agostino’s work is highly recognisable and brimming with interpretive possibility. Each artwork has a transformative effect on its environment and the viewer, and it is precisely this transformative energy that makes Agostino such an outstanding artist.

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Fernando Chamarelli

Illustration, Painting, Graffiti

Artist Fernando Chamarelli is a true Brazilian homegrown.

Unlike most artists, his early years weren’t spent drawing but playing around rivers and waterfalls in the wild nature of central Brazil. Art came into his life relatively late, at the age of 14 when a friend gave him a comic book: he then started drawing cartoons and expanded to street art, tattoos and a graphic design degree at UNESP.

Through merging these very different backgrounds and the multicultural contrasts of his native Brazil, Fernando developed his signature style. His artworks present a fluid composition of geometric elements, organic forms and harmonic lines and his visual imagery connects symbols, legends, philosophies, religions and customs of ancient and modern civilisations. 

Fernando’s diverse visual language enables the viewer to travel through time and establish connections between ancient and modern times, East and West, interior and exterior and, most importantly, between the material and the spiritual. 

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Becha

Illustration, Art Direction, Animation

Vesna Pesic, AKA BECHA, is a master of digital art.

She harmonises apparently unrelated images into a contemporary and cohesive vision, often enhanced with the skilful use of illustrative elements and lettering.

The resulting image is loaded with layers of significance, undertones of wit and rich, vivid finish.

BECHA has taken collage art to an entirely new height, and her work has been featured and analysed in digital art publications all over the world.

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• Happy Future!
• International Women’s Day Timeline Cover by BECHA
• In the mood for love by Becha

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Hélène Builly

collage, illustration

Hélène Builly is a French mixed media artist based in Paris. Her artworks project a very sophisticated and elegant aesthetic, where compositions almost appear as realistic as photographs but without compromising the distinctiveness of the collage technique.

“Collage is first and foremost an irresistible desire to change the order of things, then a way of understanding the theatre of life. An image carries a whole story with it, and when it is inserted in a new context, it creates new meanings. However, the subconscious does not completely forget the original significance, and it creates new imaginary solutions. Chance is then a great source of creation in collage: it reminds how important it is to create with flexibility because if collage is a binding exercise, the constraint is weaker when the cut-out element is inserted in a new context; it somehow regains control of itself.”

Hélène collects in her Paris studio a vast selection of photographs from different époques and, depending on specific needs, she also shoots photos herself to achieve the composition she envisions.

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Cao Yuxi

Immersive Art, Installation, New Media

Cao Yuxi is a new media artist whose body of work spans audiovisual installations, interactive art, immersive spatial design and coding. Originally from China, Cao graduated from the prestigious China Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing and the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA, where he currently resides.

A self-defined idealist trying to redeem his pledge under the social pragmatism pressure, Cao Yuxi explores the relationship between art and technology while transcending the boundaries between the real and the digital.

From his monumental show in Shenzhen, where 41 buildings of the city’s skyline were used as a canvas, to the hypnotic Dimensional Sampling audiovisual series and its QR codes-inspired visuals, Cao’s work confronts human’s perception and challenges the viewer to reflect on the multifaceted aspects of modern life and digital age.

Cao’s work has been widely exhibited in museums and festivals in the US, China and Europe. He was featured in Apple’s Special Event presentation during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2020.

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Elena Iv-Skaya

Photography

Elena Iv-Skaya is a Russian-born fashion photographer. Her work is an ode to beauty and colour. With her strong artistic vision, she takes us into a dashing world of saturated hues, high contrasts and bold feminine figures. “I am fascinated by beauty,” says Elena. “Beauty is often an unexpected result. You have to look for it, but not too much, otherwise it will slip away. You have to let it come to you like a wild animal that is hard to approach… it’s an endless quest.”

The incredibly rich and well-curated colour palette, combined with her graphic, almost essential compositions, turn her photographs into beautiful painting-like creations. “I would like people who look at my work to be surprised, astonished, to wonder why they like it or why they don’t… Leaving people indifferent is probably worse than anything”, admits Elena.

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James Dawe

Collage, Mixed-Media

James Dawe is a visual artist based in London who was part of a contemporary collage movement that defined a genre of art during the early 2010s.

His unique style can be defined as eclectic postmodernism. Using collage, digital manipulation and 3D, Dawe moulds unexpected juxtapositions of fragmented reality into new daring visual forms.

With dramatic multi-layered compositions and an urge to experiment with new image making ideas, Dawe’s art is a vision into the new aesthetics for the contemporary age.

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Kaz Shirane

Installation

Internationally renowned artist Kaz Shirane (Masakazu Shirane) operates in spatial art and interior design.

Trained as an architect, Kaz Shirane explores the mirror as a medium, both with a bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional approach.

“My concept is the people. The designer is the viewer”, says Shirane. “I want to show the viewer a side of themselves they are not aware of, challenge their perception of truth and reality.”

His astonishing installations have been exhibited in various locations around the world such as USA, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, Bahrain, Japan and he was honoured to design the Tokyo Tower Top Deck.

Awards:
– Interior Design of the Year, The Architecture MasterPrize™ 2018 (USA)
– Gold prize, A’Design Award 2018 (Italy)
– Merit Winner, CODA Award 2018 (USA)
– Gold prize, A’Design Award 2016 (Italy)
– Winner, German Design Awards 2016 (Germany)
– shortlisted, darc Awards 2016 (UK)
– Silver prize, A’Design Award 2014 (Italy)
– Bronze prize, Design For Asia Award (Hong Kong)
– CS Design Award, The 18th CS Design Awards 2014 (Japan)
– Winner, Iconic Awards 2014 (Germany)
– Honorable mention, The 7th IDA International Design Awards (USA)
– 2nd prize, 23rd International biennale INTERIEUR 2012 (Belgium)
– 1st prize, ENDO Lighting Corp. Furniture competition 2008, Jury: Toyo Ito (Japan)
– Winner, 30th Lemon company excellent student’s Diploma award 2007 (Japan)

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Ray Oranges

Illustration

Ray Oranges was born in Calabria, in south Italy, and studied Industrial Design in Florence, where he now resides.

His artworks are a crisp form of storytelling, described with carefully chosen details. This absence of clutter, enhanced by his skilful use of long shadows and explosions of light create a visceral response in the viewer.

According to Ray his use of negative space evokes his childhood in Calabria: “The Calabrian landscape is like an abstract canvas: strong sunlight inundates vast, empty spaces and projects dramatic shadows. This is where my love for geometry comes from.”

Ray’s art is deeply influenced by the art and architecture of the interwar period, reinterpreted through a contemporary sensibility, individual artistic vision and innate elegance.

Awards :
Cannes Lion Silver Press 2014
International Andy Awards
Lürzer’s International Archive
New York Festivals International Advertising Awards.

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• Ray Oranges Blue Sunrise Wallpaper

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Miguel Angel Camprubí

Illustration, Character Design, Animation

Miguel is an exciting young illustrator and animator hailing from Spain. He graduated with a degree in design and one in illustration from Madrid’s Universidad Complutense and, after completing a working experience in product design and motion graphics in Amsterdam, Miguel realised that illustration was his true calling.

“I think no other creative outlet allows me as much freedom as illustration does,” admits Miguel. “It lets me explore and create as many different things as I want”.

Miguel has developed a quite distinctive world of characters, essential in their traits and reinterpreted through the lens of innocence and humour.

With few simple black lines or fully dressed in his signature bright and bold colour palette, Miguel’s characters channel a strong, cheeky personality, resulting in visually enticing snapshots of a cheerful and uplifting world, energised by a smart use of animation.

“Animating your own illustrations makes a big difference”, says Miguel. “As my artworks are quite simple, I think animation adds one more dimension, time, that makes them much more complex in terms of storytelling. The two languages work perfectly together, although illustration is the base”.

The fine balance between an essential and distinctive trait and the capability of representing surprising and engaging narratives is what makes Miguel’s work so fresh.

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Jonathan Calugi

Illustration and Mural Painting

As a purveyor of expressive minimalism, Jonathan captures the essence of the world in front of him with one seemingly continuous line, punctuated by bold geometric forms. 

With an intuitive yet graphic gesture, whether digital or free-hand, Jonathan promotes all-around creativity, embracing with his vision different medium and objects.

«Jonathan’s illustrations create worlds that lend themselves to multilayered storytelling,» says Adam Flanagan of 160 over 90 and who selected Calugi for the De’ Longhi Artista Series.

Besides being a prolific artist, Jonathan has participated as a keynote speaker at festivals around the world such as -ING festival in Dubai and the Design Conference in Brisbane (AUS).  Jonathan lives in Pistoia with his partner, baby Marino.

Awards :
Webby Award 2015
New Visual Artist 2010 by Print Magazine
ADC Young Guns 2010

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• Jonathan Calugi’s free font for Machas’ launch

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Alberto Casagrande

Illustration, Mixed-Media, Mural

Casagrande’s artistic journey is a vibrant tale of artistic exploration across design, illustration and typography.

Starting his career in Milan as a graphic designer, he delved into the world of communication where his love for typography blossomed. His debut font, Mazius Display, quickly gained global recognition, becoming a default font on Squarespace.

As he further honed his illustrative skills, he seamlessly blended influences from graphic design, typography, futurism, and constructivism. Often incorporating archive images into his artworks, he developed a style that exudes energy, playfulness, and surrealism. His natural inclination toward merging illustration and design led to an organic expansion of his artistic collaborations, which now encompasses a diverse range of projects including packaging, branding, publishing, advertising, and murals.

In 2024, the Society of Illustrators of New York further recognised his work by awarding him a gold and a silver medal in the “Institutional” and “Design” categories, confirming his status as one of the most talented and promising illustrators of the moment.

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