Total Art Licensing Summer 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

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Welcome to the Summer/Fall edition of Total Art Licensing. May is, without a doubt, a hugely busy month. As the magazine is going to press, many of our readers will be preparing for one or more of the art licensing trade shows that take place during May - Surtex and the two Blueprint Shows in New York and Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. Surtex, of course, sits alongside the National Stationery Show. The two three-day Blueprint Shows, on the other hand have grown significantly since the first one only three years ago when twelve studios got together.This year there will be nearly 120 different studios and artists at one or both of the events. Total Art Licensing will be at Surtex, Blueprint Shows and at Licensing Expo and we very much hope to see many of our advertisers and readers at one or other show. We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to regularly receiving your art licensing news and views.

Francesca Ash, Co-Publisher

Jerry Wooldridge, Co-Publisher

In the Spotlight

Summer/Fall 2018 Co-Publisher Francesca Ash francesca@totallicensing.com

Bentley Licensing update............................ 5 Art Licensing News..................................... 6

Co-Publisher Jerry Wooldridge jerry@totallicensing.com

Interlitho Licensing...................................... 8 V&A Updates.............................................. 10 JQ Licensing................................................. 12

Editorial Director Rebecca Ash becky@totallicensing.com

Cover Story: Howard Robinson............. 16 This is Iris..................................................... 20 Artistic Design Group.............................. 21

Business Development Manager Joanna Cassidy joanna@totallicensing.com

Surtex 2018 information.......................... 23 Surtex Exhibitors and Floor Plan........... 24 Surtex Show Preview................................ 27 Blueprint Introduction.............................. 36 Blueprint exhibitors and Floor Plan....... 38

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Blueprint - What’s On Show.................... 41 The Artabella Collective........................... 56

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Total Art Galleries...................................... 61 Sigis Vinylism - a licensing program........ 74

Advertisers A Fresh Bunch .......................................................... 69 Art Nation................................................................... 70 Artabella ......................................................................55 Artistic Design Group ..............................................21 Bentley Licensing .......................................................... 5 Blueprint ......................................................... 37, 40, 47 Bright Group Licensing..............................................64

By Jodi............................................................................15 Elizabeth Stirling......................................................... 66 Gift of Muse.................................................................22 Gifty Idea.......................................................................61 Help Cuppleditch........................................................65 Howard Robinson......................................................... 1 Image By Design......................................................... 63 Interlitho Licensing...................................................... 9 Jamie Kulig ...................................................................71 Jane Shasky.................................................................. 66

Jessica Hogarth............................................................62 JQ Licensing..................................................................13 Kim Davidson...............................................................61 Lilla Rogers...................................................................64 LIMA...............................................................................75 London Portfolio........................................................ 65 Lovely Bird................................................................... 67 Lucas Hills Art ............................................................71 MGL ...................................................................... 68, 76 Pattern Pod.................................................................. 63 Penny Lane................................................................. 2, 4 Sagebrush..................................................................... 69 This is Iris..................................................................... 20 Total Licensing ..................................................... 72, 73 V&A ...............................................................................11 Wild Apple....................................................................68 List correct at time of going to press.

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BEANO GOES POP

MFA DEBUT NEW LICENSED CLOCKS

As part of the ongoing celebrations throughout 2018 to mark 80 years of the UK’s Beano, Art & Hue has created a new collection of stylish pop art prints inspired by the iconic British comic.

Art & Hue has delved into vintage issues to create twelve new stylish & minimal art prints featuring the much-loved comic-strip heroes, all available in a choice of three sizes and 18 colours.

First published in 1938, Beano has delighted generations of readers for 80 years and its cheeky humour is part of the British DNA. An official collaboration with Beano publishers DC Thomson, Art & Hue’s stylish pop art collection features the beloved characters of Dennis with his faithful dog Gnasher, the Bash Street Kids, Minnie the Minx, Lord Snooty, Roger the Dodger, and Biffo the Bear.

The full alphabet of letters, from across 80 years of Beano’s history, is available with, or without, personalisation to add a name or place for a special bespoke touch.

Exclusively by Art & Hue, all pop art prints are printed on museumquality archival card of 310gsm, made from 100% cotton, using fine art pigment inks which last hundreds of years.

The full collection can be seen online at artandhue.com/beano

Mark Feldstein & Associates is introducing two new licensed Thomas Kinkade, Disney and Lionel Train clocks. The 13-inch Thomas Kinkade limited edition Disney Mickey 90 Years of Magic wall clock captures Mickey’s personality, which has been delighting fans around the world for 90 years. The clock face depicts Mickey and Minnie Mouse at the movies sharing a box of popcorn.

The 8-inch Thomas Kinkade Lionel Train All Aboard for Christmas sound clock has a holiday theme. As represented by the artist, the All Aboard for Christmas train is bringing family and friends together for the holidays. One of 12 different Christmas carols sound each hour unless the room is dark, in which case a light sensor deactivates the audio.

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ART BRANDS AT COMICON Art Brand Studios report that in April thousands of people flocked to the San Jose Convention Center to attend the largest comic inspired show in California, Silicon Valley Comic Con. Art Brand’s artist Blend Cota switched back in forth from inviting people to paint with him in the lobby right when walking into the convention floor to his booth. At the booth on display and available for purchase was Blend’s artwork, Thomas Kinkade Studios artwork, and Lisa Lopuck. Many con-goers stopped in to get their artwork signed by the artist, purchase their favorite art, and enter in their giveaways.

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Bentley Licensing Group will be debuting new image collections from their top licensed Artists at this years Surtex Show. Bentley is dedicated to connecting Artist’s images with worldwide manufacturers to create top selling products.

Following are just a few of the new image collections being offered by Bentley’s Artists at this year’s show.

Janet Kruskamp has spent the past year creating images of current trending designs. She completed three more vintage trailer images to accompany her very successful “Honey for Sale” vintage trailer image from last year. These three new images continue the vintage traveling trailer theme with a variety of shops selling coffee and sweet treats, a beauty parlor and a Christmas Tree Lot. She also completed her first Halloween collection for this Surtex Show.

Sung Kim has added to his popular image portfolio with more trains, winter and summer watermills, a log cabin on a lake, a summer beach day and a brown bear hunting for fish in a river bed. His images pull you into the scene and make you wish you were there. Just recently Kim’s images were licensed to a company in Israel for notebooks, book covers, dairies and pencil wallet school products. Bentley also licensed Kim’s images to a new puzzle Licensee in Brazil this past year.

Ronald West continues to entertain us with his “Twist on Whimsical” imagery. New images this year include European bicycle racers, a couple caught in the rain with a broken-down automobile, dancers at the beach, a runaway bride, women bathing with wine and cakes and my favorite, a clown and entertainers announcing that “The Circus is Coming to Town”.

Joe Sambataro created four incredible watermill images depicting the four seasons. Joe’s paintings are collected all over the world and Bentley feels quite fortunate that he took time out from his busy schedule to paint these four images for the show. He also has a new Victorian home image that will be featured at the show as well.

Bentley will also be showing new images from their ever-popular Artists: Guido Borelli, Irene Suchocki, Shari Warren, Fran Di Giacomo, Robert Dawson and others.

Bentley Licensing Group offers excellent customer service and provides fast turnaround for image requests. We are looking forward to meeting with existing and new clients at this year’s Surtex Show.

For information on licensing the artwork of Bentley’s artists contact: Mary Sher, mary@bentleylicensing.com, 925.208.1302, visit our website www.bentleylicensinggroup.com or visit us at Surtex Show, Booth # 2733.

Surtex Booth #2733 For Licensing Inquiries Contact Mary Sher tel: 925.208.1302 mary@bentleylicensing.com • www.bentleylicensinggroup.com

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NEW COLLECTION FROM HELZ CUPPLEDITCH Helz Cuppleditch has created a new collection of charming artwork featuring flowers, cakes, birds and inspiring text for the art licens-

ing market. The scripts include Enjoy the little things, Sometimes you just need cake and Every moment counts and the delicate artwork makes these designs visually stunning and uplifting.

Helz is UK based illustrator and artist, whose work is reproduced onto many surfaces by cli-

ents around the world. She is represented in the USA by Suzanne Cruise Creative Services, who will be exhibiting at Surtex. Alternatively, clients can contact Helz directly.

Her hand painted, feminine style and cute characters have become recognisable to clients and customers in many fields from papercrafting to stationery and fabrics to jigsaw puzzles.

Most artwork is created as layered files and in various format shapes which means the final designs can be re-arranged for most products and surfaces.

Helz creates design collections that usually include repeat patterns and motifs to compliment the finished art.

Spring 2018 saw the launch of Helz’s 12th papercraft collection commissioned and licensed by Trim Craft Ltd, one of the UK’s leading papercraft manufacturers.

Beach Life features puffins, puppies and kittens chilling out and playing on the beach.

Her previous collections include Pepper and Friends, the playful puppy, Funfair and Wonderland, all of which have proved highly successful with retailers and the crafting community.

PUPPY AND KITTEN PHOTOGRAPHY Gifty Idea is the licensor of whimsical puppy and kitten photography. And although this is their first time exhibiting at Surtex, Gifty Idea has been licensing its imagery since 2004 - for use on paper and stationery, gift wrap, back to school supplies, calendars, canvas art and more. Images range from general occasion to holiday specific, as well as creative image collections like Pups in Cups, Heart Pups and Purrs, and Bloomingtails.

The studio can also create a custom collection for buyers or composites to show how their adorable pet photography would look on unique products.

JESSICA HOGARTH

Jessica Hogarth is a freelance illustrator and surface pattern designer from Whitby, UK. She creates striking and unique artwork that is illustrated by hand before being digitally enhanced in sophisticated and often nostalgic colour palettes.

Architectectural and coastal themes feature heavily throughout Jessica’s body of work,

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which is always colorful ad eye catching.

Jessica has produced artwork for a wide variety of product areas on a freelance basis. Her clients include Comme des Garcons, Oxfam, Papyrus and The Wall Street Journal.

She loves to create repeat patterns and has created designs for apparel, bedding, outdoor furniture, gift wrap, bags and paper craft products, to name a few. Jessica also self publishes a range of greeting card and homewares products under her own name.

Her card range is stocked in beautiful outlets across the UK and is distributed in the USA and New Zealand. She also sells prints, coasters and beautifully printed tea towels.

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THE ART OF JANE SHASKY

From the lush Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, artist Jane Shasky paints beautifully detailed watercolors celebrating the flowers, plant and bird-life surrounding her Pacific Northwest home. Her paintings are remarkable for their detail and warm love of life. To see Jane’s work is to experience the timeless cycle of seasons; from the bounty of summer flowers and freshpicked herbs to the delightful visitations of native birds perched on winter branches. In every scene she captures, Jane pays meticulous, almost photographic attention to color and detail, yet somehow still conveys the magic and sense of wonder at the nature all around her. With every stroke of her brush, she creates a feeling of serenity that brings the joy, grace and peace of the garden indoors.

When you view her work, you are seeing what Jane has observed with her own eyes and felt

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with her own emotions. She is a gifted photographer as well as painter, and the two talents merge in her work.When asked about her influences and inspirations, Jane recounts, “My most cherished early memories are of time spent with my grandmothers, surrounded by lilacs and peonies in their country gardens. They planted their love of nature in me like seeds, so much of my inspiration has sprouted from that deep connection they showed me. Being an artist isn’t what I do as much as it is how I experience life and relate to the natural world.To me, the magic is in both the act of seeing, noting the color and light, the shadows and the tiniest of details, and in finding a way to instill it with the joy I feel in being a part of it all.”

Jane continues to be a featured artist with the Lang Companies with a variety of calendar titles, including Birds in the Garden, Herb Garden, Butterflies and Botanical Inspiration, as well as many other product categories. Henry Glass & Co. has just released the stunning new fabric group, Poppy Perfection, and My Sunflower Garden will be available soon. Her Flowering Herb Jars design appears with several companies, including a collection of outdoor décor with Studio-M. Jane’s intricate botanical designs are also featured in a beautiful new collection of bath products from Creative Bath titled Perennials.

Jane will be attending Quilt Market Portland in May and AmericasMart, Atlanta in July. To license Jane’s work, contact her at jane@janeshasky. com.

Combining a professional, trend-led service with ‘boutique’ appeal, Bright Art Licensing represents top artists and designers within the Stationery, Greetings, Gift & Home and Print industries, worldwide.

This year Bright celebrates its 15th anniversary as an innovative art agency, with a brand new website and launch of a new division, Bright Illustration. Setting up Bright Illustration was an organic response to the demand for artwork with a communicative focus; finding elegant, creative solutions for advertising, editorial, branding, packaging and character design projects, it sits beside the Bright Art Licensing division.

Senior Agent Hannah Curtis said, “We are very excited about the opportunities Bright Illustration offers our artists and the new partnerships that will be made. Illustrators are expertly paired with clients to achieve an array of brand objectives. In addition the new website is a wonderful moment in Bright’s journey in that it offers our clients so much more: with dedicated artist pages, we have created simple and easy ways for clients to find their work, from artwork to promotional activity, blogs and reviews — all in one place. The user can view Bright’s artists’ latest collections of artwork, filterable by collections from typography to occasions, and save the image to their improved lightbox functionality.”

“Constantly working closely with our clients alongside our talented roster of artists on outstanding artwork for the licensing sector is what keeps us such a dynamic and responsive agency.

We hope the new site is a reflection of this!”

Dedicated to sourcing, developing and presenting beautiful illustration to perfectly meet a brief, clients can choose to license from Bright’s extensive portfolio of designs, or to commission

SUZAN LIND ART AND DESIGN Suzan Lind Art Licensing and Design, the boutique agency, in the first quarter of 2018 has secured deals for each of the four artists she now represents. To its growing list of licensees, SZL has added Springbok, TCG Toys, Yay Novelty, White Ladybug Inc., and Studio E Fabrics. SZL is also pleased to announce the agency’s new representation of illustrator, Eric Sturtevant of Rhode Island and contemporary artist, Nancy Moore of Connecticut. In addition, Suzan Lind, is working with Springbok Puzzles. Among the images Springbok will be licensing is Suzan’s photographic work, the

first of which will be released this summer.

Similar to Suzan’s paintings, her “photoplay” imagery draws the viewer in with vivid, happy, colors.

Finally, Artist Nancy Moore, represented by Suzan Lind is celebrating 20 years as a professional artist. Her contemporary, figurative, watercolors are highly sought after by galleries and museums. She began her successful long-term career with an exhibition at Yale’s Peabody Museum. SZL is pleased to crystallize Moore’s introduction to the licensing world with licensee, FLOMO®, a national brand of gift accessories. Her artwork will grace the surfaces of gift bags.

exclusive, bespoke artwork from their roster of talented artists for a truly inspiring outcome.

Hannah@thebrightagency.com or Fiona@thebrightagency.com www.thebrightagency.com

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INTERLITHO LICENSING Interlitho Licensing is an art licensing agency established back in 1955 and based in Germany, selling to customers worldwide. The company has a library containing over 80,000 images - a number that grows as a result of the constant additions made by their freelance designers and suppliers.

Interlitho holds a large portfolio which is constantly extended and is easily available to see and select from their categorized website where interested parties can search by key-

words, artists and numbers. Potential licensees can create a lightbox and save their selection.

They can download it and share it with Interlitho to check on availability etc.

The globally-licensed artworks cover all styles and mediums with products including greeting cards, stationery, crafts, puzzles, calendars, giftware and tableware.

The company covers the whole range of traditional, contemporary, cute, whimsical, seasonal and everyday in both American and European styles.

Interlitho also holds a large collection of photographic images which is constantly being extended.

The designs from Interlitho Licensing are developed in cooperation with their customers to suit their specific demands and needs. New designs and photographic images are immediately available as high resolution data and this allows for fast and inexpensive adaptation to particular product groups, sizes and other specific products requirements.

The designs and images are created in close cooperation with designers and artists worldwide. Interlitho works with them right the way through from concept to the sketch over the colour composition up to the finished commercial design. As a result, a continuous flow of eye catching modern and advanced designs, as well as traditional designs. can be assured.

The company is present at a number of events throughout the year including Surtex, Blueprint, Las Vegas Licensing Expo, Atlanta Gift Show and the Christmas-/Paperworld in Frankfurt.

For more information please visit www. interlitho.com or contact: Anke and Andreas Klein, at designs@interlitho.com. www.interlitho.com +49-221-9405830

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The V&A in London (Victoria and Albert Museum) is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. Their well established and award-winning licensing programme provides commercial access to over 2 million objects showcasing 5,000 years of human ingenuity, artistic excellence, and remarkable design from around the world.

This year they have launched with a number of exciting product developments, demonstrating their ability to diversify across categories and drive innovative product ideas in the market place. With five category nominations for the

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Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards and two for the LIMA Awards, the V&A looks set to build on its licensing achievements in 2018.

One of their most recent launches includes the debut collection from leading paper craft brand, Trimcraft, who have collaborated with the V&A to produce an Arts and Crafts inspired range of exquisite papers and crafting accessories. The collection is stocked throughout the UK in Hobbycraft and by independent retailers worldwide.

Continuing the V&A’s successful foray into fashion, SS18 saw the launch of the second sustainable collection with ethical clothing brand People Tree.

The collaboration offers a contemporary eight piece collection celebrating the Arts and Crafts Movement and has been stocked by key retailers including John Lewis and ASOS. In the home interior sector Flair Rugs released four new designs within their premium Luxmi collection, and independent fabric design specialist Arley House developed a new range of classic prints for the home offered on rich velvets and classic cotton linen.

The V&A continues to drive activity in the international market, maximising the global appeal of the brand. International pewter specialists Royal Selangor have been inspired by the luxury of the Art Deco Movement for their new Streamline collection of decorative accessories, supported by a fully integrated marketing campaign celebrated the longstanding relationship of over 20 years between the V&A and Royal Selangor.

The Museum has a long established licensing programme in Japan and many of its blockbuster touring exhibitions travel there, including David Bowie’s in 2017. In order to shine the light and build on these existing activities it has recently appointed sales agents ZenWorks and Brandog to explore broader licensing opportunities.

The V&A has also signalled its commitment to growing the business further in East Asia with the appointment of Alfilo Brands as the V&A’s exclusive agent in China, with ambitious plans

for licensing, retail collaborations and pop-up stores throughout the territory.

Not to be left out, there is a buzz of activity in the U.S., with a new quilting collection with world specialists Moda Fabrics, inspired by the V&A’s wealth of William Morris designs. Meanwhile, Caspari have been busy developing new paper tableware products, adding a fresh colourway to the Alice in Wonderland range, and will be previewing a new winter range at the National Stationery Show, New York in May. Wild & Wolf have also expanded their gift offering for the U.S. market with a beautiful new collection of gardening tools, stationery and gifts.

With over 80 licensees, the long-established

licensing programme is truly global, operating across Europe, USA and Asia, and reaching across product categories, including homeware, apparel, jewellery, stationery and crafting. The experienced team supports licensees with trend reports, archive selection and product design to create beautiful products for the contemporary market place, inspired by authentic and compelling stories from the V&A archive.

What is so appealing for the companies involved and the consumer is that all profits are returned to the Museum, funding exhibitions, research, and collecting for the future.

Discover more about the innovative licensing programme by stopping by Booth #2527 at Surtex, NY. Visit vandalicensing.com or vandaimages.com Email: licensing@vam.ac.uk

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JQ LICENSING LLC Adapting Art for Product Application for over 29 Years Developing top quality art that fits your target market is only the first step in creating the next breakout product line. Adapting the art to fit a unique shape or structuring around a curve or seam is the key. With over 29 years exceeding customers’ expectations, JQ Licensing represents 50 unique artists crossing all styles. Exhibiting at the 2018 Licensing Expo booth E88, JQ Licensing will showcase hundreds of actual custom designs on products, not just the flat art that one starts with when working on a project.

Licensees value and reap the benefits of JQL’s Brand Recognition and experience, utilizing artists and graphic production to fit a product shape for many demographic market segments. “We built our business on wildlife and outdoor art, but have expanded to many styles and treatments with the growth of our team of artists and designers,” said Jon Q. Wright, owner and co-artist of JQ Licensing. “Our products are sold throughout the world with many licensee applications.

We have decades of experience in production as well as in design.”

JQL specializes in developing individual or full ongoing lines for licensees featuring their innovative custom PSD designs, developed to fit unique product shapes and specific demographics in target market segments. Images and

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designs are developed to fit a manufacturer’s unique opportunity. “We keep a keen eye on hot selling trends, and we are constantly developing our own as well” added Jon Q. “We believe in creating differently and by doing this we can offer innovative and fresh licensed artwork that buyers get excited about.”

Customers love the vast artwork and styles with so many talented artists and designers on the JQL team. Experience from start to finish makes it easy for customers in any phase of the process to take advantage of their talents.

For more information contact Jon Q. Wright at 406-361-8155 or email to jq@jqlicensing.com.

To see all of JQ Licensing’s represented artist’s artwork and thousands of PSD custom designs, go to http://www.jqlicensing.com.

Stop by booth E88 to meet the JQ team at the 2018 Licensing Expo show.

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Art licensing agency, This is Iris have appointed a number of new partners to their portfolio over the last quarter.

They have welcomed partners from across the industry all of which have developed a number of stunning new ranges which celebrate the work of some of the most creative illustrators and designers in the country.

Following the success of the initial Great Majesco gift and toy line by partners Robert Frederick, a new activity range, including colour me in books, art sets, flash cards and learn to play items have been developed with all lines due to launch this Spring.

This humorous IP has gone on to be developed into a picture book series.

After attending Cartoon Forum last year, the This is Iris team met with Kaiken Entertainment and together they will introduce this new series to publishing parters from around the world.

This is Iris have also announced a deal with licensing partners Smith Taylor (Lassoo Creative) for a number of properties including Deer Little Forest, a unique Arts & Lifestyle brand created by illustrator Jo Rose. The agreement will see the first line of high-end home accessories, including wall clocks, peg hooks, chalkboards, wall hangers, door signs, and vinyl wall stickers, enter the UK market this Spring. Other Iris collections developed by Smith Taylor include Ailsa Black, Beryl Cook, Catalina Estrada, Dominique Vari and Mokoh Designs.

New licensees, Myne Cards have developed a number of Beryl Cook security cards. These lightweight cards are designed to block a fraudsters card reader, all you have to do is pop one of these colourful cards into your purse or wallet ! Myne Cards have developed a number of new Beryl Cook collages based on some of the most popular themes from this beloved artists portfolio.

Artist Ailsa Black has spent the winter months developing a number of new images for her portfolio. The latest collection is set around Ailsa’s love of Harbours. These colourful scenes showcase a number of well known harbours through the seasons with these already being developed by jigsaw puzzle partner Gibsons.

The new year saw partners Apples To Pears launch a range of stunning new home lines, including storage tins, placemats, trays, chopping boards and a variety of decorative mugs. This beautiful collection is just the beginning for Ailsa Black as partners Samuel Lamont & Sons are set to launch tea towels, aprons, oven gloves and shopper bags this sumer.

Samuel Lamont & Sons join a long list of new licensees who are currently developing the work of British Artist artist Beryl Cook. As with Ailsa Black, Samuel Lamont & Sons are to produce a large number of items which will compliment the existing home lines, including Dunoons new china mugs.

This year also see’s This is Iris extending its licensing reach by partnering international sub agents including Home Made Licensing (France) for Mokoh Designs and The Great Majesco,Wild Pumpkin (Australia & New Zealand) for The Great Majesco, Dominique Vari, Beryl Cook and Catalina Estrada, Eurolizenzen (Germany) for Beryl Cook and Empire Multimedia Corporation (SE Asia, China) for The Great Majesco and Dominique Vari.

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Telling the Story…

Anyone that has been in the licensing or product development industry for any period of time has heard the adage “make sure you are telling a story.” The reactions to this phrase can range from “Wow, what fun” to “how in the world do I do that without words?”.

So, who is telling this all-important story?

Who is the audience? What are the elements – is it a happy story, inspirational, sympathetic? Are we trying to tell our story or tell our customer’s story? Maybe, the story reflects on memories of a great vacation, a special event, a place we love, or a message of common interests to a person we are missing?

A manufacturer or retailer uses artwork to sell more products, and the artist / designer want to provide just the right artwork to create those sales, right? So how does this happen? Let’s say, Claire Customer is in a store looking for items for her kitchen.

Does a story really matter on cookie jars, towels, or placemats? Maybe she wants her home to display something special to her, or to the person she is giving this gift to. Birds (beautiful or just plain cute), Travel (Paris, doesn’t that say it all), Gourmet Taste or a Down Home Palate? Does she want to project a feeling? Is it peaceful, warm and cozy, playful, or classy? All of this goes into the story the product’s artwork should be reflecting.

It’s more than just a theme. Check out the pictures in this article, they are all reflecting a story – however, they are side by side with another picture that is reflecting another story of the same theme.

Come by booth #2533 and check out some of the stories being told by the artists at Artistic Designs Group, they just may be the story that your customers are wanting to hear.

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Total Art Licensing talked to Randi Mohr, VP of Emerald Expositions and Surtex Show Director to find out more about the show and what’s happening this year.

Surtex is now in its 32nd year, having launched back in 1986. How much has the show evolved since its beginnings into the much-anticipated annual global art and design event it now is?

Along with the industry itself, Surtex continues to change as art and design styles evolve and is a destination for both established and emerging artists and designers.

All of these factors add up to an expanded breadth of design styles on display. For example, we see watercolor continuing to be popular but anticipate seeing more contemporary designs, bolder prints and patterns, colors, geometrics and very dark and edgy designs featuring fire.

This year in particular we welcome participation of artists and designers from all over the United States as well as around the world – approximately 25% of our exhibitors are from outside of the country.

How long have you personally been involved with the show?

I’ve been working in the trade show industry for 15 years and have had the pleasure of working on Surtex beginning in June 2017.

What makes Surtex stand out from the crowd as the event that artists, designers, agents, manufacturers and retailers simply don’t miss?

Surtex continues to be the largest licensing forum in New York City, offering those seeking the latest prints, patterns and design services for their product development needs and also art and designs available for purchase from artists/designers in our Atelier section.

The Design district features first-time participating artists breaking into the art/design space.

How many exhibitors are you expecting this year? How many of these will be firsttime exhibitors and what percentage come from outside the US? How many visitors are expected to attend?

We expect nearly 200 exhibiting artists/designers, with about 40% of those exhibiting at Surtex for the first time. As noted above,

how millennials are spurring the home textile companies to transform and attract their business; and the session by Steve Greenberg and Chris Moore discussing digital technology in design – for instance how 3D printing can bring your design concept to reality – and the newest processes technology offers. For a full schedule visit https://www.Surtex.com/show/ trend-theatre/

more than 25% of the artists and designers are from other countries outside the U.S.

How has Surtex’s reputation grown in recent years in terms of becoming an increasingly global event, and how far do some exhibitors travel to be there?

Exhibiting artists and designers hail from 13 countries (outside of the U.S): Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Spain, and the UK.

Trend Theatre is one of the show’s special features - what speakers should attendees be looking out for this year?

The Boulevard is an exciting destination for all Surtex participants this year. This is the area connecting Surtex with the National Stationery Show, highlighting the similarities and synergies of the two events. It will be the new “home” for the shared Theatre, featuring Surtex trend focused programming, the social media lounge and demonstrations.

The Theatre schedule includes industry experts, thought leaders and trend spotters.

Topics include the use of vintage and antique textiles for inspiration, products with personality, the impact millennials are having on products designs and brands. I’m especially looking forward to “It’s Now a Millennial World” and

Why would you say is Surtex particularly good for business networking? Have you any anecdotes of any particularly spectacular or big-name art licensing deals that took place there?

Surtex is the only forum that brings all facets of the industry together in one place. This applies to those established in the industry as well as those new to it. Please note both the timeframe and participant privacy preclude us from providing specifics on companies and deals for publication.

Finally, what other special features can you tell us about taking place at Surtex 2018?

What must-see ‘flash talks’ are you personally looking forward to attending?

Two other exciting happenings will take place on the Boulevard. Trend speakers Bridgette Morphew and Jason Lyon of Morphew and Paradox are hosting a pop-up show and will have a selection of antique and vintage apparel for sale. The items will coincide with their trend session on Sunday about the use of vintage and antique textiles for design inspiration and the intersection of the home and fashion markets –a variety of pieces from around the world from Japanese Kimonos to West African Indigos.

Highlighting the relationship between the surface design and stationery industries is Rongrong and Graphique de France sketching on the Boulevard. Rongrong DeVoe is a designer under Surtex exhibitor Jewel Brand and Art Licensing and Graphique de France is an NSS exhibitor.

(See our website for complete descriptions and times). Rongrong will be sketching on Graphique De France stationery.

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EXHIBITORS A Clever Spark............................................. 2656 A+A Design Studio...................................... 2742 Agnes Hardi................................................... 2436 Allison Cole Illustration.............................. 2545 Amarilys Henderson.................................... 2646 Ana Davis, Ltd. ............................................. 2558 Andie Hanna LLC ....................................... 2564 Andrea Henning Design.............................. 2442 Ansada Licensing Group, LLC................... 2624 Art Makers International, Inc. - AMI!....... 2505 Artistic Designs Group............................... 2533 ArtSHINE ..................................................... 2522 Artwork Design Ltd..................................... 2724 Atelier Mineeda Co., Ltd............................. 2746 Austral Collective........................................ 2555 Bentley Licensing Group............................ 2733 Blanckslate..................................................... 2644 Bonnie Maverick Art and Design.............. 2560 Brenda Manley Designs............................... 2613 Briana Zonas Design................................... 2752 Bridgewater + Moss Design...................... 2829 Brooklyn Nest.............................................. 2818 CH Designs................................................... 2424 Cherry Design Partners LLC.................... 2825 Cole Dawn Designs LLC............................ 2440 Colwill & Waud............................................. 2845 Cornucopian Gallery................................... 2758 Creations Robert Vernet............................ 2849 Creativo Surface Design............................. 2830 Dabarrs4 Design.......................................... 2444 Danielle Murray............................................ 2642 Davina Nathan Design................................ 2850 Demi & Olive................................................ 2428 Design Works International....................... 2728 Diane Harrison Designs Ltd...................... 2734 digitalKente.................................................... 2750 Edith Schmidt Art......................................... 2551 E’Flomae......................................................... 2516 EttaVee............................................................ 2553 Eyez................................................................. 2663 Fashion Institute of Technology................. 2657 Fine Art Inc.................................................... 2714 Fiona Howard Ltd........................................ 2813 Foliage Inc...................................................... 2810 Galaxy of Graphics Licensing,.................... 2634 Gardenia Watercolors................................. 2753 Gelsinger Licensing Group......................... 2618 Gerry Murray Designs................................ 2640 Giacomo Barzaghi........................................ 2738 Gifty Idea & Kim Davidson........................ 2536 Giordano Studios LLC................................ 2616 Green Hound Press..................................... 2460 Group Four Design Studio Ltd................. 2824 Heather Wasaff Art...................................... 2434 Image Conscious.......................................... 2538 Jane Dixon..................................................... 2823

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A Clever Spark............................................. 2656 A+A Design Studio...................................... 2742 Agnes Hardi................................................... 2436 Allison Cole Illustration.............................. 2545 Amarilys Henderson.................................... 2646 Ana Davis, Ltd. ............................................. 2558 Andie Hanna LLC ....................................... 2564 Andrea Henning Design.............................. 2442 Ansada Licensing Group, LLC................... 2624 Art Makers International, Inc. - AMI!....... 2505 Artistic Designs Group............................... 2533 ArtSHINE ..................................................... 2522 Artwork Design Ltd..................................... 2724 Atelier Mineeda Co., Ltd............................. 2746 Austral Collective........................................ 2555 Bentley Licensing Group............................ 2733 Blanckslate..................................................... 2644 Bonnie Maverick Art and Design.............. 2560 Brenda Manley Designs............................... 2613 Briana Zonas Design................................... 2752 Bridgewater + Moss Design...................... 2829 Brooklyn Nest.............................................. 2818 CH Designs................................................... 2424 Cherry Design Partners LLC.................... 2825 Cole Dawn Designs LLC............................ 2440 Colwill & Waud............................................. 2845 Cornucopian Gallery................................... 2758 Creations Robert Vernet............................ 2849 Creativo Surface Design............................. 2830 Dabarrs4 Design.......................................... 2444 Danielle Murray............................................ 2642 Davina Nathan Design................................ 2850 Demi & Olive................................................ 2428 Design Works International....................... 2728 Diane Harrison Designs Ltd...................... 2734 digitalKente.................................................... 2750

Edith Schmidt Art......................................... 2551 E’Flomae......................................................... 2516 EttaVee............................................................ 2553 Eyez................................................................. 2663 Fashion Institute of Technology................. 2657 Fine Art Inc.................................................... 2714 Fiona Howard Ltd........................................ 2813 Foliage Inc...................................................... 2810 Galaxy of Graphics Licensing,.................... 2634 Gardenia Watercolors................................. 2753 Gelsinger Licensing Group......................... 2618 Gerry Murray Designs................................ 2640 Giacomo Barzaghi........................................ 2738 Gifty Idea & Kim Davidson........................ 2536 Giordano Studios LLC................................ 2616 Green Hound Press..................................... 2460 Group Four Design Studio Ltd................. 2824 Heather Wasaff Art...................................... 2434 Image Conscious.......................................... 2538 Jane Dixon..................................................... 2823 Jane Mosse Designs..................................... 2819 Janet Greco Design..................................... 2649 Jennifer Nelson Artists................................ 2546 Jess Kovic....................................................... 2464 Jewel Branding & Licensing........................ 2627 Jill McDonald Design................................... 2518 John Hersey................................................... 2654 Josephine Rice............................................... 2412 Julie Dawson Artist...................................... 2540 Julie Sola......................................................... 2458 Kahri............................................................... 2751 Kari Gale........................................................ 2448 Kate & Herman Ventures............................ 2416 Kate Mawdsley.............................................. 2541 Kathleen Kelly Creative.............................. 2446 Katsu Creative Project............................... 2720

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Kawanimals.................................................... 2756 LaRubia Design............................................. 2430 Laura Leigh Bean.......................................... 2438 Lauren Wan................................................... 2828 Lemon Ribbon.............................................. 2842 Levison Design.............................................. 2715 Licensing Liaison LLC.................................. 2512 Lighthouse Art & Design............................ 2517 Lili graffiti....................................................... 2844 Lilla Rogers Studio....................................... 2525 Linda Bruce Kate Rowley........................... 2712 Lisa Karachinsky........................................... 2462 Lisa Verploegh Design.................................. 2757 Liz Mytinger................................................... 2521 London Portfolio.......................................... 2808 Looking Good Licensing............................. 2509 Lucas-Hill Art & Design.............................. 2450 Lylove Studio................................................. 2820 Lynn Johnston Productions Inc.................. 2638 Magnet Reps The Artelier of Brands....... 2514 Main Line Art & Design.............................. 2515 Marcus Arts & Illustration.......................... 2452 Maret’s Art..................................................... 2636 Margaret Kimball Studio............................. 2554 Margie and the Moon, LLC........................ 2556 Martha Colón Artist/Designer.................. 2652 Mary Edwards Design................................. 2549 Maymo Art..................................................... 2420 Meehan Design Group................................ 2615 MGL................................................................ 2623 MHS Licensing............................................... 2626 Monika Suska................................................ 2550 Nerida Hansen Print and Textiles............. 2528 Nerodiseppia di Marta Cortese............... 2827 NoKidding...................................................... 2815 Paper & Cloth Ltd........................................ 2821 Paradox NYC................................................ 2655 Patricia Nugent Textiles.............................. 2811 Pattern Observer......................................... 2846 Paul Brent Designer, Inc.............................. 2711 Penny Lane Fine Art and Licensing........... 2534 PI Fine Art/PI Creative Art......................... 2519 Pink Light Design.......................................... 2619

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Plinto Studio.................................................. 2848 Pointcarre...................................................... 2659 Portfolio Select Ltd...................................... 2543 Potterton Books.......................................... 2726 Pratt Institute................................................ 2661 Prints of Orange........................................... 2809 Pyro Painter................................................... 2406 Real. Weird. Art............................................. 2761 Reserved Studio........................................... 2816 Roaring Brook Licensing............................ 2511 Robert Slagle Studio.................................... 2749 Rogue.............................................................. 2835 Roots Studio................................................. 2426 Sarah Beise Art + Design LLC.................. 2645 Sarah Von Dreele.......................................... 2539 Senn & Sons................................................... 2552 Shannon McNab........................................... 2524 Shantouy Hi-New Tech Zone.................... 2755 Shide A Words.............................................. 2762 Showoffs......................................................... 2710 Snazzyhues by Teju Reval............................ 2418 Studio Sette Srl............................................. 2744 SunDance Art Licensing.............................. 2611 Suzan Lind Art Licensing & Design........... 2622 Suzanne Cruise Creative Services, Inc..... 2612 Tana Bana Design Services......................... 2805 Tate & Co Licensing..................................... 2717 Textile Creations by Lily, Inc...................... 2706 Tieu Dang Studio......................................... 2422 Trend House................................................. 2526 Victoria and Albert Museum..................... 2527 Victoria Mlady Artworks............................ 2410 Viivi Studio..................................................... 2456 Virginia Kraljevic........................................... 2648 Wild Apple Graphics, Ltd............................ 2606 Wild Wings Licensing.................................. 2729 WinterPrint................................................... 2664 With love from Argentina.......................... 2557 World Art Group......................................... 2506 Yuno Design Studio..................................... 2814 Zoejo Design Studio................................... 2852 List correct at the time of going to press.

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A Clever Spark A Clever Spark is the art, illustration and design of Michal Sparks. An artistic chameleon, Sparks’ various art styles have sucessfully adorned products throughout the home decor, gift, and tabletop industries. Her art has also been published in over 45 gift and children’s books, fifteen of which she also authored. An easy watercolor style to clean contemporary or whimsy illustrations, Sparks’ fresh approach easily translates across all markets. In addition to her original art, Sparks also works from a personal collection of antique swatches, updating each with a modern approach.

spans many age ranges and markets, and can be found on children’s bedding, wall art, stationery, giftware, apparel, and bolt fabric.

Amarilys Henderson Amarilys Henderson of Watercolor Devo whose business name spins from her personal times working in paint - has three inspirerers: truth, life, and beauty. Her diverse portfolio includes patterns, portraiture, cute animals, handlettering and plenty of florals.

Agnes Hardi Agnes Hardi received her diploma as a textile designer in 1983 from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliques et des Metiers d’Artthe French national school of applied arts and design. Since that time she has designed independently for all of the most prestigious furnishings and fabric houses in France, Europe, and Asia. She acts both as a creative designer and as an artist on projects to execute the designs of her own independent creation, as well as collaborated designs that are commissioned to order. Since 2002 she has lived in the countryside of northern Burgundy in France.

Allison Cole Illustration Allison is constantly drawing and dreaming up new collections for a wide variety of clients, with hundreds of images readily available for licensing in her archives. Over the past 15 years she has honed her aesthetic to create bold, colorful illustrations that range from trend-setting to mass-market ready. Her surface design work

ed, professional artists with a history of successful licensing programs. With over twenty years of art licensing experience, we strive for quality products and an honest, productive relationship with both the artist and the licensee. Buyers can be confident the artwork they select from Ansada is accurate in regard to rendering, biology, habitat, and color and will complement their product for programs resulting in great sales.

Art Makers International Inc. AMI! Art Makers International, Inc has over 9,000 designs and over 30 years of licensing experience.

AMI! represents Gina Jane, Vicky Howard, Designs by Current, Morehead, Inc, Designs by Jodi and Harvey Gariety. Art ranges from traditional to fun graphics plus children and animal designs.

Artistic Designs Group ADG knows that developing great products requires more than great art and design; it requires teamwork, collaboration and a comprehensive understanding of today’s market. They pride themselves in listening to buyers’ needs and strive to provide artwork specifically tailored to those needs.

Andi Hanna LLC Andie Hanna Designs is exhibiting at Surtex for the third time since 2015. Their artwork can be seen on many products including fabrics, calendars, coloring books, home textiles, journals, notecards, greeting cards, journals, tableware etc.

They license artwork and sell some outright.

They also offer custom designs, freelance fashion/product design and logo creation/branding.

Andrea Henning Design Andrea is an experienced designer and artist with work ranging from soft watercolor patterns to bold marks. Her journey in design and art began as a way to express herself and has evolved into a universal expression that is emotive, deep, soothing and connective. She is looking for opportunities to partner with companies who resonate with her work, for greeting cards, home furnishings, gifts (stationery, calendars, wall art) or apparel.

Ansada Licensing Group LLC Ansada Licensing Group, LLC represents talent-

ArtShine ArtShine licensing (a division of ArtShine industries) is a Sydney based licensing agency representing a diverse, fresh, and on-trend portfolio of Australia based creative industries professionals. Providing support and expertise for artist and clients alike, ArtShine showcases a carefully curated range of styles, skills, subjects, and specialties for manufacturers & licensees to choose from. With an extensive, and constantly growing, collection available for immediate licensing, ArtShine works in close partnership with their artists & designers as they collaborate with manufacturers and licensees to create successful product lines. ArtShine licensing artists and designers can design to specification, modify existing art, and create commissioned works to a designated style and specification.

Bentley Licensing Group Bentley Licensing Group will be debuting new image collections from their top licensed Artists at this years Surtex Show. Bentley is dedicated to connecting artist’s images with worldwide manufacturers to create top selling products.

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Blanckslate Blanckslate represent a number of different collections including Cirkpop, Mod Cat, Menagerie, Block Party and Ocean’s Bottom.

Cirkpop is a favorite everyday collections. If buyers are looking for color, geos, lettering, and characters, this collection has it all!

Mod Cat is a fun and quirky collection mixing a mid-century modern aesthetic with cats. This is a manageable collection with just the right amount of patterns and icons and Blanckslate believes it is great for stationery, fabric and novelty industries.

Menagerie Collection is for any brand looking to compliment a tastemakers whimsy. Menagerie is for buyers that want classic with a twist, mixing gorgeous floral patterns with romance and a bit of fantasy.

The Block Party Collection is a great example of how Blanckslate likes to use cut paper! “Keep it simple stupid” is their motto when it comes to collections like these... It’s a great way to give interior spaces a sleek polished look.

Finally, Ocean’s Bottom is all about what can be found at the bottom of the sea. Aimed at the tween market, it is a fun and colorful collection.

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Bonnie Maverick Art and Design Bonnie Maverick is a New York artist and designer with work cultivated from her life in the city, country and overseas. Her textured designs along with novelty prints of deeply hued and playful flora and fauna series, inspired by living near lush forests, gardens and acres of hill country blooms bountiful in beauty. She has been proud to work for a wide range of design-led companies and businesses in achieving something that will leave a beautiful mark in the world. This is her first time at Surtex.

Brenda Manley Brenda Manley represents a talented group of international designers with roots that span the globe from El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the USA. They create stunning collections for multiple markets. The artists’ styles range from whimsical to sophisticated, traditional, contemporary and everything in between. They sell, license, flat fee and welcome commissions.

Briana Zonas Design Briana Zonas Design will participate as a first time exhibitor at Surtex this year. Although new to Surtex, Briana Zonas comes with over 13 years of experience in the surface pattern design industry, specializing in home goods. Prominent department stores such as Macy’s and Marshall Field’s have featured her rug designs. Briana has also served as a ghost designer for Donghia and Jessica McClintock, as well as other home fashion industry trendsetters. Using watercolor or water-based mixed media, Briana creates a sense of ethereal beauty using vibrant colors and fluid brush strokes. She allows the water to mix with the pigments naturally, bleeding into one another to create blooms of color next to hard edge water lines. Depending on what the design calls for, she will sometimes overlap with gel pens or put the design in a digital pattern format. Briana Zonas Design also offers custom design work for your unique product.

Bridgewater + Moss Design Bridgewater Moss is s full service design firm with over 25 years experience developing trend forward prints for products in several industries including fashion, home, activewear, tabletop and paper. They deliver creative, on time, on budget solutions.

The Brooklyn Nest The Brooklyn Nest is a Brooklyn based artist collective showcasing trend-forward and uniquely executed surface designs. Their diverse

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artist make-up helps them maintain a myriad of styles and techniques, allowing them to bring the most updated art available. Being based in Brooklyn gives the team the unique insight of submersion in New York City, further fueling their creative edge.

Cornucopian Gallery Cornucopian Gallery is a community of emerging Nigerian artists and those of Nigerian decent. Each artist embodies Cornucopian Gallery’s motto ‘In Omni arte vitae.’ (Art within every life). These talented artists present their interpretation of everyday living in general and opulent populations.Their artistic passions communicate contemporary, traditional, naturalistic and avant-garde vitality that can be tapped in multiple industries.

Creations Robert Vernet Creation Robert Vernet is one of the leading and most prestigious studios in the world. Based in Lyon, France, this global studio brings the French style and fashion sense to every corner of the earth. The collection is versatile and suites most markets. Their 20 in-house artists offer artworks combining the most modern digital techniques with traditional artistic skills. Attentive to the latest trends and needs of their customers, they adapt their large collection daily, allowing the studio to meet the specific demands of the markets in both their geographic and sectoral diversity.

Creativo Surface Design Creativo Design Studio is a full service design studio based in Brooklyn New York, providing prints and patterns for the home furnishing, gift and paper goods markets. Creativo is known for its bold and fresh surface designs and is a trailblazer in the digital surface design industry.Their design team, headed by creative director Alexsandra Ortiz, consists of two in-house designers and 10+ designers from around the world, bringing to the table a higher understanding and analysis on up and coming design trends and how these trends will translate into the various markets they serve.

Dabarrs4 Design Dabarrs4 Design’s modern geometric designs and patterns start from pen and ink drawings.

They will vector the artwork and create patterns which are a lot of fun as the pattern takes on a life of its own that many times was not foreseen. It is very addicting to do, and now that they have a large diverse collection of them, they are looking for ways to exploit them.

TOTAL Art This is Dabarrs4 Design’s first visit to Surtex and they are very excited about exhibiting their products and designs. Key details in deciding to participate in this year event are; the diversity and quality of the business that attend and the

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Design Works International Design Works International is a multi-discipline design studio in the heart of New York City specializing in original textile design, trend development, color, and bespoke consulting services.

They are a team of artists, designers, writers, experts, researchers, and thinkers who are driven by curiosity, passion, dedication, and above all, creativity.

Diane Harrison Designs Ltd Diane Harrison Designs will be showing a full design collection of florals, classicals, geos, textures and contemporary. The collection is housed in NYC and is permanently available for viewing. New designs are produced in their UK and Spanish studios and continuously sent to their NYC showroom.

Design Challenge for this year which defines their art perfectly: “Modern geometric designs based on circles and squares”. Their designs are unique in the marketplace and they offer a designer the opportunity of taking one graphic element and exploiting it in every single aspect of their project - furnishings and textiles, wall covering/decor, flatware, housewares and decorative accessories.

In addition to the space, the design can carry into the fabrics and jewelry of those in the space!

digitalKente Tiana Harris is the owner/creative director of digitalKente a boutique surface design studio that combines modern craft and ancestral patterns to create one-of-a-kind surface designs for women. They use the power of graphic design to re-mix indigenous textiles from melaninrich cultures around the world. Their bold digital tapestries are multi-dimensional, culturally aware, and unapologetically colorful.

E’Flomae E’Flomae is a design studio that evokes bold contemporary designs inspired by nature. All designs are derived from original photography and art work of E’Flomae’s founder and creative director, Esther Shavon.The studio is strategic in its approach providing fresh, trend ready designs that are an ideal solution for surface and textile design licensing.

E’Flomae creates designs that adds freshness and vibrancy to an array of markets. On trend collections are designed for apparel, gift, stationary, and interior markets.

Hundreds of designs will be available for licensing and direct purchase. Stationary and gift collections will focus on colorful hand drawn elements and playful motifs. E’Flomae’s interior and home decor collections will provide bold graphic and textural statements perfect for home and hospitality markets.

EttaVee EttaVee is a an art and design brand created

by Jessi Raulet, an American artist and designer based in Paris, France. She enjoys creating vibrantly colorful pieces! Jessi / EttaVee began licensing her artwork in 2017, with pieces currently available at Pottery Barn Teen, Minted and TJMaxx. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Dancing with the Stars, Fubiz and in Flow Magazine (French Edition).

Danielle Murray Danielle Murray is a traditional and classically inspired painter with a unique vision and digital expertise. She is inspired by past times, past places and the sea and has a keen eye for color and trend. Danielle’s background as a product and surface designer paired with an understanding of the marketplace, shows through in her elegantly painted, trend forward and sophisticated images.

Davina Nathan Design Davina Nathan Design is a Toronto based studio specializing in hand painted designs, with a strong focus on novelty conversational prints and florals. The studio creates custom artwork collections upon request and works within a variety of markets; interiors, fashion, stationary, swim, tabletop and outdoor.

All of their designs are created with love and attention to detail. They take pride in establishing long term relationships with their customers.

Edith Schmidt Art LLC Edith Schmidt is a visual and mixed media artist based in Pensacola, Florida. Her graphic work has been featured in the Spring and Fall editions of Digital Studio ( 2011 and 2012). Edie’s work has also been published in the 2014 premier edition of Digital Inspiration. In 2015, Edie switched gears and returned to watercolor and illustration and successfully translated some of her illustrations and patterns into fabric design.

She enjoys working with clients and helping them achieve the artful look that they want to incorporate in their business or personal life.

Eyes From the Street to the body, this is one of street artist Eyez’s most popular pattern - Eyezcubed - as seen on the streets of New York at the Welling Court Mural Project, on leggings in a yoga class and at one of the hottest clubs in the city.

This pattern is created by a repeating stencil pattern in multiple layers and comes from a se-

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TOTAL Art ries called EyezonPatterns.The pattern has been featured on dresses, yoga pants, beer coozies, pillows and more and combines both the vibes of urban art and high-end fashion.

Fiona Howard Ltd Unique textile designs created entirely by hand for customers worldwide since 1987.

Fiona Howard has been creating unique textile designs created entirely by hand for customers worldwide since 1987.

She has a style refined by 30 year’s experience crafting beautiful designs for the home furnishings industry. She carves by hand and prints linocut repeating patterns which weave intricate designs together to adorn homes from furnishing fabrics and wallpapers to kitchen textiles, bedlinen and stationery.

Current clients include Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Sanderson, TAG, Paperchase, Ulster Weavers, Galison, National Trust UK.

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Gifty Idea + Kim Davidson Designs Gifty Idea is the creator and licensor of whimsical puppy and kitten photography for licensed use on greeting cards, gift wrap/gift bags, canvas, clothing, and just about any other product category. Images include general occasion to holiday and seasonal.

Kim Davidson Designs is the creator of contemporary and complex surface pattern designs, featuring overlapping textures and colors - perfect for home decor, bedding, apparel, softgoods, gift wrap, wall decor and more.

wear out; display as art; quilt with; scribble in; plug in; hang up; snuggle into; rest on; shower with; stand on; towel off; munch, sip and sup on; carry around; gaze at; cover up; wipe their hands on; pray with and feel peaceful in. Her portfolio includes urban sketches of public buildings and private patios; wildlife photos of wild birds in urban settings; wild colorful abstract compositions; liturgical compositions from ancient Churches, and large 2D woven creations made with rescued drawings from her trashcans.

Galaxy of Graphics Galaxy of Graphics Licensing, LLC represents a number of highly successful artists. Their large and ever-growing collection is on trend with the colors and styles for today’s home decor market.

Gardenia Watercolors Gardenia Watercolors produce handpainted watercolor designs. Watercolors are a great ways to showcase a handcrafted look on products. It is the medium that Gardenia chooses to express their romantic, whimsical aesthetic inspired by nature and travels. The digitizing step is essential to take the designs to the next level and make them ready to use in most products.

Gardenia licenses and sells designs for paper products, textiles and has designs for wedding, home decor, holidays, children, stationery and more.

Gelsinger Licensing Group Founded in 1994, Dona Gelsinger artwork has stood the test of time, evolving with the trends, while remaining timeless in appeal. She produces traditional, realistic artwork with a heartwarming appeal. Key themes include Christmas, religious, lake/lodge, wildlife, birds and garden, angels, farm, harvest, nostalgia and more.

Giacomo Barzaghi Giacomo Barzaghi is a design studio that produces textile designs for home furnishing, bed linen, wallpaper, curtains, outdoor - print, digital print and jacquard.

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Giordano Studios LLC Whether it’s Holiday or everyday designs, Giordano Studios and the Art of Greg Giordano fills the category niche or collection. A leader in art licensing since 1980, manufacturers work directly with the Giordano’s who are well versed in all aspects and challenges of production, manufacturing and retail environments. Their portfolio consists of over 3500 designs, all designed by Giordano who enjoys working with manufactures to fill their needs. Some of their popular themes are pets, wildlife, songbirds, automotive, tractor, American nostalgia and horses.

Group Four Design Studio Ltd Group Four Design Studio is an international resource for the design of printed textiles, embroidery, t-shirt graphics and all aspects of surface design for the fashion, home and gift industries.

Group Four’s products include original designs, vintage textile inspiration and color and fashion forecasting services.

Heather Wasaff Art Heather Wasaff is now offering her original artwork to develop useful items for people to

Jane Dixon Jane Dixon Inc. is a surface design studio located in the Chicago area. Loose, bold and colorful, Jane’s designs are influenced by the natural world and culture. Design collections are grouped by theme including main patterns and coordinates.

These original designs are perfect for fashion, home furnishing, paper goods, and accessories.

They are available for custom work, too.

Jane Mosse Designs Jane Mosse Designs was established in 1986 with many experienced and dynamic designers offering a wealth of designs and photography from traditional and contemporary florals, classical and ethnic patterns, vibrant and quirky conversationals, as well as for kids, kitchen, tabletop and bathroom. Designs can be used for printed and woven textiles, bedlinen, wallpaper, giftwrap, stationery and paper products as well as ceramics. Both CAD and handpainted art are available.

They sell outright (all designs are sold with the copyright). Commission work is also a key part of the business.

Janet Greco Design Janet Greco Design provides high quality and uniquely poignant art and images grouped into the broad categories of her well-travelled life at home and abroad. Collections include country, urban, coastal and floral art and décor.

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Julie Dawson Artist A career artist since 1973, Julie Dawson has a highly successful record selling her watercolors, designs, and products featuring her art, and books. Her paintings are inspired by extensive travels in 101 countries. For Surtex two subjects, animals and flowers, are included as watercolor images and coordinating designs in borders, repeat and overall patterns. She pulls image segments from the watercolors for clothing, household items, and decorative arts. Her unique style and textures create combinations that work memorably on everything.

Janet Greco is a professional artist and designer who works with all kinds of curators, art consultants, interior designers, manufacturers and retailers.

Jennifer Nelson Artists Jennifer Nelson Artists represents ten very talented artists who produce beautiful illustrations for commercial use.

Serving the surface design, publishing and home decor industries, they have a large inventory of images for licensing or buyout. If they don’t have exactly what a buyer needs, their artists take commissions, creating custom-made art to suit the purpose.

Jewel Branding & Licensing Jewel Branding & Licensing is a full-service global licensing agency representing a diverse portfolio of designers, artists and brands including Rachael Hale, New York Botanical Garden, Nikki Chu and Tracy Porter. The team has 75+ years experience developing and managing licensing programs for some of the world’s largest properties.

John Hersey John Hersey has been primarily an editorial illustrator for 30 years and has created work for some of the biggest international media brands John’s work has set the tone for vector art since the personal computer came on the scene in the early 80’s and in recent years he has added his love for pattern making and watercolor to create a contemporary portfolio of handmade work and digital work and then a beautiful blend of the two media.

His watercolours are evocative of Paul Klee with a naturalistic abstract aesthetic. When the two media are combined they create a sophisticated and whimsical feel.

Julie Sola Julie Sola is a contemporary printmaker and illustrator based in Nashville,TN. Her rich images have appeared on fabrics, paper products wall coverings and publications.

Julie’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and is in many permanent collections. Her artwork is featured on the tv show, Nashville, as well as several books and cd covers. She is the author/illustrator of two children’s books, Run Fast Milo! And Possum Dreams. Julie creates her work by hand, carving her original images into linoleum and wood, hand printing them onto fabrics and paper, creating rich images.

Kahri Fashion designer turned surface designer/illustrator KahriAnne Kerr shows her unique collection of edgy feminine prints. Kahri Accessories Collection is popular in Japanese stores like Isetan and Mitsukoshi and is now available at Bloomingdale’s in the USA. The Kahri Home collection of printed feminine aprons and oven mitts is also sold in Japan. KahriAnne also creates cute fashion icon dolls from her illustrations of everyone from Karl Lagerfeld to Iris Apfel, which are sold at Paper Source, Shopbop, and museum stores.

Kate Mawdsley Kate Mawdsley celebrates her 26th year showing at Surtex. Kate is well known for her cute animal characters, Christmas images and florals.

Her art is licensed world wide on all products from greetings to kitchenware. Kate has many new and exciting images available for license this year. She also works on a commission basis and likes to build a close partnership with her regular customers.

Kathleen Kelly Kathleen’s artistic journey began as a child, positioning her on a path that led to an education in graphic arts, photography and textiles. Her

passion for color, texture, imagery and creativity fuels the intuitive process by which she creates.

Compelled to make the world a more exciting place through the genesis of her unique designs, Kathleen creates for fabric, art prints, stationary and more. She provides an atypical perspective across all categories as she is a knit fabric designer for the bedding industry and a freelance graphic designer and photographer. While studying for her Masters at NC State, Kathleen designed the official tartan for the university, registered in Scotland. Eager to finally make a splash in the marketplace and introduce herself and her art to the world, Kathleen debuts Kathleen Kelly Creative, an inspired and bold, everexpanding collection of art for apparel, home decor, paper products and more.

Kawanimals Juliana Duque is a graphic designer and illustrator from Bogotá, Colombia. She began creating happy doodles for her daughter (and herself) and this is how ‘kawanimals’ was born. Inspired

by Japanese kawaii illustration, kawanimals are cute and quirky creatures that live in a simple and colorful world.

Lauren Wan Lauren Wan is a Hong Kong born, British trained; NY based fine artist/textile print designer. A graduate from the Royal College of Art London, Lauren creates contemporary and sophisticated designs using her unique color palette. Lauren’s designs have been used by leading designers including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier, Tommy Hilfiger, Oscar De La Renta and brands including Laura Ashley, Lenox, Wedgewood, Barnes & Noble, Papyrus,Victoria’s Secret, Macys, Villeroy & Boch and more. Lauren’s fine art is part of the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Lemon Ribbon Lemon Ribbon Studio is a UK based studio offering fresh and original prints and graphics for the childrenswear and youth markets. Their extensive collections cover infant to tween to young adult.

Levison Design Levison Design is a leading art licensing agency.

Representing sought after names like Jennifer Brinley, Elena Vladykina, Geoff Allen, Ronnie Rooney, Laura Freeman and Jeff McKinley, they offer a vast portfolio for every occasion. Artists represented include Geoff Allen, John Barwell, Jennifer Brinley, Lee Chapman, Laura Freeman, Jennifer Huber, Virginia Kylberg, Jeff McKinley,

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Licensing Liaison A Full Service Art Licensing Agency with complete studio capabilities as needed by our clients.

Alicia Dauber is the owner and active principal of the agency based in the Pacific Northwest.

Alicia represents talented artists who develop imaginative concepts that are unique and specific for the manufacturers who need them. As a “hands-on” director, Dauber and her staff at Licensing Liaison are adept at going beyond an image-only presentation to maximize design capacities for a client’s needs.

Lilla Rogers Studio Lilla Rogers Studio licenses and sells work for surface design, as well as accepting commissions for editorial, graphic design, corporate and advertising clients.

They believe they are super-easy and fun to work with, and pride themselves on their organization and attention to detail. All of their artists are vetted for professionalism and superior work.

The studio has carried out some amazing projects from art for water towers, games, books, fabric, puzzles, ad campaigns, annual reports, TV commercials, ornaments, magazine illustrations, children’s books, wall art, posters, salad dressing packaging, museum exhibit art and more.

London Portfolio London Portfolio is a New Jersey based design studio specializing in designs for the paper products and textile industry.

Their collection is the creative effort of 25 worldwide artists who design a variety of novelty-driven conversational designs for Christmas, Easter,Valentine’s day and other holidays, as well as everyday themes and categories.

All of their designs are original and are vailable for sale or licensing.

They encourage all of our customers to visit their website frequently because they are always adding new designs.

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LLC - devoted to original art and design. Hand drawn works in various media are created for purchase and licensing, to serve multiple applications: custom concepts and images for organizational use (proprietary logo + collateral for hospitality, retail & services), pattern and pictorial design (for surface, packaging & home good markets) and editorial art (publishing/paper). In addition, they offer Pen and ink, watercolor and computer-aided drafting-in the service of witty, elegant, often humorous, always original art.

Maret’s Art Maret Hensick has worked as a licensed artist since 1989. Hand painting and watercolor are her traditional media. She also works extensively with the Brushes and Photoshop programs.

Her work is inventive, sophisticated, lively, full of color and line. She has long standing relationships with companies in the gift, paper and housewares industries and her work has been used by over 30 companies. Maret enjoys collaborating with companies to develop lines from her wide library of artwork or developing a program from an idea. Everyday, Christmas, birthday and nature are highlighted.

MGL MGL is one of the world’s leading art licensing companies. They pride themselves in representing stunning imagery for an array of products ranging from greeting cards, calendars and stationery, to jigsaws, apparel, bedding and home décor. The work of over 70 artists and designers is represented in a growing portfolio of over 30,000 images, covering a variety of categories including wildlife, floral, landscapes, patterns and vintage. As well as providing existing artwork, MGL also offers a customised service to either adapt existing imagery or create new, bespoke designs.

Margaret Kimball Studio Margaret Kimball is an artist and hand-letterer who likes to make patterns surrounding the themes of nature and architecture. She has made illustrations for wallpaper, publishing projects, textiles, home decor, stationary, maps, and packaging, along with art prints. Clients include Macy’s, Aura Cacia, Ogilvy & Mather, Boston Globe, Little Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside Magazine, American University, Walmart, McDonald’s, and many others. She is inspired by the Connecticut forests she grew up playing in, flowers, travel, maps, and modern design.

Magnet Reps Presents The Artelier of Brands The Artelier of Brands licensing studio represents a diverse group of stylistically unique art & lifestyle brands.

Margie and the Moon LLC Margie Tillman Ayres is a pattern designer/illustrator living in New Orleans, LA. Much of her work is inspired by the boundless imaginations of her two young boys as well the kids she teaches at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Free Festivals in the Kids Tent which draws kids from all over the city. She is also drawn to the rhythm of natural forms in the plants, trees and flowers that abound in her tropical climate as well as in her hometown in Mississippi. She has a Bachelors in Fine Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Marcus Art and Illustration Marcus Arts & Illustration is part of multi-disciplinary office - Benjamin Marcus Architect

Martha Colon Artist/Designer Martha Colón trained at The School of Art & Design - Fashion Institute of Technology in New

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York City, to become a textile surface designer and technical fabric stylist for the home furnishings industry. She has worked for companies such as Robert Allen,Beacon Hill, Kravet, Lee Jofa, and Laura Ashley fabrics which was the start of her fascination with feminine and romantic style, country floral prints and shabbychic looks. Following this, as an entrepreneurial fashion and lingerie designer, Martha developed a logo that came to life and now serves as her indication of her new business.

MHS MHS Licensing is one of the nation’s leading licensing and consulting agencies specializing in representing popular artists and advising manufacturers in the search, evaluation and acquisition

TOTAL Art of new properties and personalities. As a licensing agency, they represent intellectual property owners such as artists, illustrators, and owners of trademarks, patents and brands (licensors) who want to monetize their intellectual properties by licensing their use to manufacturers of consumer products such as home furnishings, gifts, and textiles. With over 400 active licensees and relationships with hundreds of additional manufacturers across a multitude of product categories they are able to work directly with the decision makers and get deals done.

Monika Suska Monika Suska has been a professional illustrator for over eleven years working primarily in the children’s publishing market and, during those years, has illustrated over 40 picture books as well as games, apps and educational materials.

Creating art for products is a fairly new adventure for Monika who says that her head is constantly bubbling with new ideas and she likes trying new things so her portfolio shows variety of styles. Her work is heavy on lovable characters and happy colors.

Nerodiseppia di Marta Cortese e D’Andrea Anna Founded in 2016 by Marta and Anna, Nerodiseppia is a creative studio based in Turin (Italy).

Specialized in surface design, the studio creates and develops a great variety of textures and patterns. Nerodiseppia’s designs are characterized by a unique style inspired by the Italian art, history and craftsman culture and embodies the personal expression of the artists. All the designs originate from a handmade drawing, involving the exploration of different techniques and conferring to each design an individual character.

Paper & Cloth Ltd Paper & Cloth Ltd is a UK print design and illustration studio, producing charming, quirky and original art. They love to draw, armed with boundless imagination, fantastic illustrators and an eye for a good graphics, they love to create new characters & prints influenced by the latest graphic trends. Whilst many of their clients are big, they like to keep it small and are keen to ensure they always stay true to their values.

They are proud of the art they produce and the thought, research and detail that goes into their work. Their designs have been used on cards, clothing, stationery and brands Patricia Nugent Textiles Patricia Nugent Design & Textiles offers antique and vintage artwork and designs on paper and

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on textiles. From a collection which is French, English and American, circa 1790-1970, buyers can find designs for home textiles and wallpaper, top of bed, tabletop and dishes, paper goods and giftware, and designs for apparel fabrics for men, women and kids. They believe that beauty belongs to all ages so their collection is ageless.

Penny Lane Fine Art and Licensing Representing over 60 artists, Penny Lane has many new artwork choices for 2018. The company offers numerous styles and subjects for licensees to choose from including holiday, tween, patriotic/Americana, coastal, contemporary, floral, country and much more.

that trajectory into the future. The interior design program is an architecturally oriented program with emphasis on spatial design as well as surface embellishment.

Prints of Orange Prints of Orange is a textile design studio delivering original contemporary artwork for the fashion. stationary and interior market.

Pyro Painter Pyro Painter art is vibrant, and eye-catching. The artist has developed his own original technique, resulting in the utilization of real fire; digitally manipulating the element like paint. The images have taken on a life of their own, ranging from a number of varying themes and concepts; ones that can appeal to all audiences. Pyro Painter maintains the crispness and luminosity of the flames in each work.

Pink Light Design Pink Light Studio is exhibiting for their 8th year at Surtex. Pink Light artists create fresh, fun, happy, whimsical designs for all products! They offer licensing, sales, and custom designs, from our 15 talented artists from all over the world.

Portfolio Select Ltd Portfolio Select is an art licensing company representing around 50 very talented artists - based in Hertfordshire, UK. Most of their artists are available for commission. They can provide exclusive artwork for all products and their portfolios cover a great range of styles, from traditional Christmas, whimsical, cute, contemporary and everyday. They pride ourselves on quality customer service.

Pratt Institute Interior Design at Pratt provides a scintillating learning environment in New York City, the interior design capital of the United States. It is widely acknowledged that interior design education, as it is taught across the United States, began at Pratt. Their alumni have made significant contributions to the quality and character of their built environment for decades and it is certain that tomorrow’s graduates will continue

Real Weird Art Joey Allgood is the creator of Real Weird Art. My name is Joey Allgood, and I am the creator of Real. Weird. Art which started as a joke.

Late one night (after a particularly difficult day), Joey began doodling as a way to escape reality, and wound up staring a penguin barfing up an armless skeleton. Joey thought it would be funny to post it on Craigslist, expecting maybe one person would reply (if only to suggest counseling). To her surprise, a slew of emails awaited me when she woke up. Inspired, she kept bringing weird ideas to life and mailing them off to strangers. She loved making them, people loved receiving them, and it was just an awesome thing.

Then one day she bumped into a street artist who asked her if she made art, and after reluctantly showing her work, she suggested bringing it to Union Square. It took more than a month before she showed up, petrified. Her setup was scarce- a little table, a few prints, and a portfo-

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Then finally, her work caught a stranger’s eye.

She stopped in her tracks, and stared silently for what felt like an eternity. Suddenly, she burst into laughter, and Joey knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

Roaring Brook Licensing Roaring Brook Licensing is a full service art & design licensing agency, developing and customizing collections for products at retail and ecommerce.

They work in partnership with their designers to collaborate with manufacturers in the home furnishings, gift, housewares, and stationery industries. Their collections can be found worldwide including marbling, which is a thrilling art.

It’s a colorful, glorious, often infuriating science experiment.

And it is nothing short of a miracle. In addition, Tre Sorelle Studios has captured nature in vibrant jewel tones for their Autumn Jewels collection. With rich watercolors and an organic feel in a modern palette - this collection is sure to be a favorite from textiles to dinnerware.

Snazzyhues by Teju Reval Snazzyhues – by Teju Reval is a miscellany of artistic designs and paintings that exemplifies creativity with tastefully captured ideas from around the world. They license and sell work for surface design of various products – wall art, textile, home furnishing, tableware, children’s merchandise, stationery, children’s books.

Teju Reval is a self-taught charcoal artist. Inspired by her travels, she combines trendy and vibrant colors with the sophistication and class of traditional charcoal. Her art is unique and trendy with a touch of urbane elegance, apt for modern living spaces.

Suzanne Cruise SCCS is a full service licensing agency with over 25 years of experience and millions of dollars in retail sales.

SCCS represents artists whose creative work is used on a wide range of products: from greeting cards, to gift wrap, rugs, kitchen accessories, table top and serve ware, party papers and gift bags,as well as an infinite number of home decor products. SCCS is fully committed to maintaining high standards for their artists while working closely with all of their licensing partners.

Tana Bana Design Services Tana Bana produces original, in-repeat designs

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(both digital and embroidery) designs for interiors, fashion and stationery products.

Tate & Co Licensing Tate & Co licensing is a licensing agency made up of about 25 of the most well-known fantasy artists in the world. Their artists are the leading producers of fairy, dragon, mermaid, steampunk, wizard, Celtic, and fantasy artwork worldwide.

Fantasy is one of the hottest categories in licensing these days. And while they focus on fantasy artwork it is not their exclusive category.

Tieu Dang Studio Tieu Dang Studio offers digitized watercolor paintings to create a variety of patterns for all needs

gifts from 75 licensees worldwide. Key territories include Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, China and South Korea.

Victoria Mlady Artworks Victoria is a pattern and product designer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She believes color is as good for us as veggies are!

Her designs are sometimes modern, sometimes throwback, often quirky, but always colorful.Victoria designs with a sense of fun and optimism with a personal mission to brighten up living and working spaces.

Much of her work translates beautifully into the home decor market as well as to many other product categories. Her large and brightly colored photographic artwork is also available for licensing opportunities.

Victoria and Albert Museum As the world’s leading museum of art and design, the V&A can provide almost infinite sources of inspiration from textiles, furniture, graphics, to photography, jewellery and fashion. V&A licensees gain unique access to the extensive archive

of over 2.3 million objects and the endorsement of the V&A brand: a trade mark that denotes both creativity and excellence in design.

It is one of the world’s most extensive resources of design to explore. Licensees seek out decorative patterns and prints from centuries of design from around the world.

The experienced team provide relevant material to transform into contemporary, innovative and beautiful product ranges. They also ensure a level of visual recognition across all categories, achieving a consistent expression of the V&A’s brand, whilst enabling licensees to achieve their targets.

The V&A brand has a growing appeal in different territories and product categories. The global licensing program includes homeware, apparel, jewellery, accessories, stationery, crafting and

Wild Apple Wild Apple work with over 80 artists, photographers and illustrators to bring stylish, trendforward art & designs for wall & home decor collections.

Whether a buyer needs art for framed and canvas art collections or designs and patterns for art-inspired stationery, ceramics, dinnerware, napkins, bath sets, towels, mugs and more, Wild Apple can help them find them perfect art for their next product..

Wild Wings Wild Wings works with over 80 artists, photographers and illustrators to bring stylish, trendforward art and designs for walls and home decor collections. Whether there is a need for art intended for framed and canvas art collections or designs and patterns for art-inspired stationery, ceramics, dinnerware, napkins, bath sets, towels, mugs and more,Wild Wings can help find the perfect art.

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MGL INTRODUCE ARCHIVE ART BRAND MGL are excited to introduce new design brand Archive. Archive explores the wonders of art and science through sumptuous artwork, illustrating in glorious detail the mysteries of the natural world and encouraging appreciation of the beauty found in nature all around us.

Drawing inspiration from natural history artwork and adventurers who travelled the world to bring back exotic specimens, Archive brings a modern, sophisticated twist to classic botanical imagery.

This year Portico Designs will launch a seventeen piece collection across a variety of stationery and gift products. The collection will launch in the U.K. and U.S. in summer 2018.

Tapping in to the current strong botanical and forest green trends Archive have a broad appeal with scope for licensing across a wide range of categories in the US and European markets. Some areas MGL are keen to look in to are homeware, apparel, bedding, kitchen-ware and wall art.

THE BRAND LIAISON EXPANDS INTO POP-ART The Brand Liaison has always been known for art licensing, including well-known art brands such as the trendy European HotchPotch, California designer Debra Valencia and classic cartoons from Mary Engelbreit and Gary Patterson, and now this year The Brand Liaison has expanded its art licensing to include Pop-Art including Emoji’s from the leading authentic digital emoji brand, EmojiOne, Ugly Christmas Sweater art, collegiate designer Corey Paige, who has created a new trendsetting colorful collage style and Jimmy The Bull – the beloved bull terrier named after designer Jimmy Choo, and introducing millennial water color designer Barbara Ignatiev.

The Brand Liaison will be showing all of its art brands including sample products and a library of visuals at its at Licensing Expo.

Capitalizing on the Emoji trend, The Brand Liaison represents the leading authentic digital emoji brand, EmojiOne who has created a consumer products line under the brand JoyPixels which includes Kelloggs’ PopTarts, Apparel from Bioworld and others including fan-art on Red Bubble, and hundreds of other licensed products.

The EmojiOne icons feature best-

in-class graphics found on multiple digital platforms including licensing with Verizon, T-Mobile, Sony, PlayStation, WIX, Buzzfeed and more, and have been featured on numerous televisions shows and commercials including McDonalds, PizzaHut, Duracell, 3-M and even a commercial for the NFL during the Superbowl! The EmojiOne collection includes over 2,800 icons and new versions are released annually.

Another property is the trendy European brand HotchPotch from the leading UK gift and greeting card company Carte Blanche. Known for

design and innovation, Carte Blanche has grown the famous Me to You brand and its signature character, Tatty Teddy, its award winning humor brand, Violent Veg, and the trend-leading offerings from Hotchpotch.

The Ugly Christmas Sweater brand burst onto the scene last holiday season with stationery and is now expanding the brand through licensing, offering both the trademarked Ugly Christmas Sweater brand and its beautifully ugly art to manufacturers across all categories.

Finally, leading The Brand Liaison’s roster of artists is Debra Valencia, who creatively blend florals, paisleys, geometrics and other decorative motifs with an artistic and imaginative approach, using vibrant colors and unique combinations. New collections debuting at Licensing Expo include gorgeous florals, geometrics, coastal and ethnic themes, for bedding, home textiles, table top, home accents, wall décor, social stationery, paper goods, craft, apparel, fashion accessories, beauty products and more.

Debra Valencia’s most recent endeavor, the art of Shibori designs, combines traditional Japanese techniques with a modern twist, again leading the industry trend.

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Licensing for this year’s event which you can see here featured in the magazine. Jennifer Orkin Lewis created the fantastic New York scene for the first show and Harriet Mellor’s cityscape for the second show is equally exciting and inspiring. The colours are great and they sit really well together even though they are very different styles.

Emma Shonenberg kindly designed the beautiful poster for our new event, a Blue Print on the West Coast. It will be in San Francisco from the 2nd – 4th of October. The venue for this show is in the Fort Mason complex very close to Fisherman’s Wharf, which also houses the Museum of Modern Art. Gallery 308 has enough space for 25 exhibitors and literally looks out over the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. Emma’s poster clearly captures the mood of Blue Print and San Francisco perfectly !

Here we are in 2018, and it’s the third year of Blue Print ! It’s amazing how quickly another year has gone by.

The show has come a long way since the first one in 2015 when we were just 12 studios. This year we will have 112 studios and artists at the Hudson Mercantile at 500 West 36th Street, New York, which is between 10th and 11th Avenues.

By keeping the price reasonable, the show has become a reality for a lot of artists that wanted to show in New York in May, but always found the prices way too high to exhibit! Blue Print has become a community where exhibitors can talk to each other, ask questions, and generally help each other out.

The important thing is that the show is attracting buyers from all product categories. These include companies from Home, Textiles and Fabrics, Publishers, Manufacturers, Packaging, Retailers, Gift Wrap, Greeting Cards, Stationery, Apparel and Garment Manufacturers. There is an abundance of talent on display, from well established studios to exciting new artists, there is so much fantastic artwork to choose from for any industry .

We all look forward to seeing you in New York from the 17th – 22nd of May 2018!

It is also important to mention that clients will find exhibitors that license, some that offer limited rights usage and others that out right sell.

There are many that offer a combination of two or three of those options.

This year we have exhibitors coming all the way from Australia, Europe, Canada, Brazil and even El Salvador! The show is again split into two, the first running from the 17th – 19th of May, and the second running from the 20th – 22nd of May. There will be between 55 and 65 artists, designers and studios at each show, which is spread over the two floors of the Hudson Mercantile. The show is very well located near Hudson Yards, it is 3 minutes walk from the Javits and there are several deli’s very close to the venue.

This venue has one of those rare commodities in New York, a roof patio that looks down onto the Hudson River. This is where we will have this years Blue Print ‘Meet and Greet’ party on the 20th of May in the evening. So hopefully the weather will be kind to us and the sun will shine!

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SHOW TIMINGS May 17 to 19 2018 and May 20 to 22 2018 Hudson Mercantile 500 West 36th Street New York NY10018 USA Show Hours 17 May 9.30am to 6.00pm 18 May 9.30am to 6.00pm 19 May 9.30 to 4.00pm 20 May 9.30 to 6.00pm 21 May 9.30 to 6.00pm 22 May 9.30 to 4.00pm For more information or to register to visit go to www.blueprintshows.com

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What’s on Show at Blueprint A Fresh Bunch Art Licensing & Design represents 19 artists from around the world and will be exhibiting at both New York Blueprint shows. A Fresh Bunch will be presenting new work from all of its artists for Christmas, Birthday, All Occasion and Seasonal categories.

From hand lettering to Santas and snowmen, A Fresh Bunch artists cover a wide range of styles and themes.

Amy L. Frazer is an illustration, surface, pattern and product design professional focused on creating fresh artwork for a wide range of surfaces including textiles, home decor, stationary, toys, giftware and publications.

At Blueprint Show 2 Amy will be sharing collections focused on fun holiday art, whimsical lettering and bouncy florals for buyers and manufacturers. Her art is colorful, energetic and full of texture.

She began her career as an illustrator and product designer creating for companies such as Old Navy, Galerie Au Chocolat and Nike. Trained as a fine artist and illustrator at the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), she continually feeds her love of learning, drawing and making with workshops and classes.

Through her work she tries to capture the beauty of the world around and embellish it with her personal mark making. Things made by nature and things made by man are huge inspirations to Amy. She loves to explore many different mediums such as paint, textiles, embroidery, digital media, photography, and collage.

Artabella Collective is an international collective of seven designers; Amber Shaw, Claire

Elsworth, Deane Christiansen, Diana Kelley, Erica Ilene, Michelle Grace and Shelley Seguinot who all share a passion for design. Making their trade show debut at Blueprint Show 2, they came together to form Artabella Collective to share trade show costs and workload. Together they create stunning and commercial surface pattern design available to purchase and license in all the main markets. Commissions are also welcome.

They have a diverse range of styles and ontrend portfolio covering many categories: Florals, Christmas, Seasonal, Geometric, Abstract, Typography, Kids, including Repeats, Half drops, Placements and Motifs. (See feature pg 56)

Asa Gilland is a Swedish illustrator and surface designer who has been creating art and patterns for more than a decade out of her little studio.

Asa works in a combination of traditional and digital media, and loves delving into a wide range of themes and motives, often taking inspiration from her Scandinavian origins and her current adoptive country, Indonesia. She loves all things retro but with a fresh, updated twist to it, in combination with a sophisticated color palette.

Asa will be sharing her newest work at the upcoming Blueprint Show 2. It will be her first time joining the show and she has prepared a new, fresh batch of collections of holiday themes, placement art, greeting cards and floral patterns.

She will bring a portfolio that is chockfull of quirky, colorful and original pieces available for

licensing. She has produced work for stationary, textile, home decor and digital media among others and has worked with clients in the U.S, Europe and Asia. She is very much looking forward to growing her illustration business and is excited to make new contacts and explore new collaboration opportunities at the show.

Beeline Collection consisting of the duo, Jennifer and Doreen will be at Blueprint Show 2.

Jennifer is a color and texture enthusiast who has been designing for the gift and stationery industry for over 13 years. She has worked with clients such as International Greetings, Amscan, Seastone, and CSS Industries to name a few.

Doreen has been designing for the toy and stationery industry for the past 13 years as well.

In addition to designing, she draws and writes children’s books and owns an art gallery in NJ called The P-Nut Gallery, where she teaches and paints.

Beth Schneider is a surface designer from Chicago and is returning to New York this year with a fresh portfolio full of new watercolor florals, patterns and illustrations. Her unique combinations of modern, on-trend color palettes paired with her sophisticated hand of watercolor create her clean, fun and fresh signature style.

She hand paints all of her motifs and then brings them in to the computer to arrange the layout and create repeat patterns.

Beth’s designs are easily marketable and she is equally as easy to work with. Her patterns and illustrations have been licensed on stationery products, home decor, housewares, wall art, textiles, and more. Beth has most recently seen her palm doormat at Anthropologie and has been busy licensing artwork for greeting cards, gift

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Licensing Brooke Glaser specializes in playful characters, fun lettering, and art for every occasion. She enjoys collaborating with companies to create art which brings their product to life in a way that speaks directly to their specific customers.

Many of these designer-company collaborations have been so successful for her clients, they’ve had to do second runs to meet the demand of happy retails and customers. Naturally, she also

wrap, and party supplies. She has worked with name brand clients including American Greetings, Design Design, Entryways, Fisher Price, Hobby Lobby, Minted, Procter & Gamble and many more. Beth’s products have also been featured in various issues of HGTV Magazine.

tive characters can be used on various children products as these are created keeping in mind a child’s perspective so that the characters come alive and are adored by the users as something unique and precious. They have a growing collection of designs and characters available for license and direct selling.They also accept workfor-hire assignments.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Betsy Beier is the illustrator behind Wanderlust Designer.

From whimsical maps to colorful holiday scenes, Betsy loves to create illustrations, patterns and lettering that celebrate places, people, experiences, foods and cultures from around the globe or right at home.

Her 25+ year design career has allowed her to explore a wide variety of artistic opportunities from creating interactive games, software and museum installations to illustrating puzzles, books and home products. Her diverse career path has led her to work with top clients such as HarperCollins Publishers, Budweiser and Apple.

More recently, she has created illustrations and licensed her work with Shutterfly, True South Puzzles, PicCollage, Flutter Magazine, ABC Studios, and Primitives by Kathy.

Brenda Manley Designs represents a group of amazingly talented designers with roots that span the globe from El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the USA. They create stunning surface and textile collections for home decor, apparel and stationery/gift markets. They sell, license, flat fee and welcome commissions.

Blue Fish, started initially by Nidhi Wadhwa, as a studio for illustrations needed in children’s books and the likes. Blue Fish has now diversified into a vast foray of fields like textile, home decor and furnishing, party, games and puzzles, stationery, etc. They also create surface patterns for fabric and paper products, emoticons/stickers for Apps.

Blue Fish specializes in making characters that have the ability to appeal, invite and maybe even talk to those who behold. These innova-

Their mission is to be a favorite art and design resource by providing fresh, creative design solutions, delivering technically correct digital files in a timely fashion.

The owner/creative director has 29 plus years experience with sixteen of those years specializing in the surface and social expressions industry as an art director, licensee, art buyer, designer and production artist for a paper tableware company.

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has hundreds of print-ready designs in stock for those who are looking for a specific theme.

Brooke is always studying the latest trends. She likes to keep on eye on both emerging trends in the illustration world as well as established ones surfacing in products already in the market place. Her art is cute, sweet, but with a touch of sophistication. It appeals to adults, not just children. Her work can be found on home decor goods, greeting cards, magazines, and plenty of children’s apparel.

“I look forward to meeting both my current clients in New York and I’m always excited to meet new ones.” says Brooke. “While the Internet is amazing for connecting people across the globe, there is nothing quite as enjoyable as meeting people in real life. The show is a great way to get to know my clients better and better understand their unique needs.”

The Brooklyn Nest is a group of dynamic creatives often found mesmerizing crowds with their interpretive vogueing. Not only are they a powerhouse for fresh trends and ideas, they have also made huge strides as a traveling breakdance troop and freelance water balloon jugglers. In January 2016 they established themselves as one of the most exciting and innovative art studios in the industry. They have become known for their quirky sense of humour, their knack for predicting upcoming trends, and reading their clients’ minds through design.

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love of the outdoors, creatures large and small, and all things floral. She combines expressive watercolor with digital details and doodles to create work that has an energetic and fun-filled vibe. Her latest work features eye-catching new color palettes, adorable imagery, and beautiful lines. She has enjoyed adding new themes like sea creatures, cacti, new flowers, bears, and dinosaurs to her collections and will have new hand-lettered quotes to debut at the show. Her cheerful illustrations, unique hand lettering, de-

Camp Collective consists of two designers - Teresa Barry and Joan Herlinger - who met online as part of an online design community.

Teresa is a native Arkansan, where she is inspired by the natural beauty of the South. She is passionate about vintage, has a huge collection of vintage textiles, and even runs a vintage shop where she upcycles vintage furniture and home decor. Teresa loves happy colors and creates art and designs with a nostalgic and sometimes bohemian or whimsical style. Joan grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in San Francisco for the past several years where she has worked as a designer and illustrator. She adores animals and enjoys working in a bold, colorful esthetic,

lightful patterns, and more will all available for sale, licensing, and flat-fee license. Her work is perfect for the stationery, paper goods, home decor, and textile industries; and she loves exploring new markets and themes.

Their collection is varied and appeals to a wide, diverse product selection.

The children’s portfolio, a wonderfully disparate range, aided by contributing artists from all over the globe, constantly pushing themselves to come up with the best ideas, has cute, pretty, quirky, humorous and roguish artwork, enough to tempt all of the kid’s markets.

Specialist artists concentrate on home decor and adult art beautifully rendered in paints and mixed media.They are always updating their collection and are excited by how the portfolio evolves to suit the trends.

With a background in fashion and textiles, Claire Picard’s designs and illustrations are inspired by her love for flowers, the garden, birds and animals. She has worked as a lingerie/ embroidery designer, fashion illustrator, and as a print artist, which explains her love of decoration and the feminine aspect of her illustrations.

Working mostly as a collage artist, she combines paper-cutting techniques, with ink or paint techniques to create trend-forward collections.

Claire has become known for her novel colour combinations, and is always striving to create a grown-up approach to her whimsical characters and florals.

with a hand-drawn quality and sense of fun. Joan works in a variety of media and hand sews felt toys based on her original designs.

Their work is suitable for licensing and category buyouts in markets including: bolt fabric, home decor, apparel, children’s, gift, stationery, scrapbooking and more.

Clare has worked internationally in the greetings card, stationery and home décor markets, and she also teaches illustration techniques online. She spent twenty years living and working in Paris, where she was the founder of a multidisciplinary association for designers, searching out marketing and sale platform opportunities for creatives. Now based in the south of England, she works out of her Hampshire based studio.

Catherine McGuire is a watercolor surface designer from New England and a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. With a passion for bright color and an addiction to detail, she loves every minute that she spends creating new designs. This will be her first time exhibiting at a show. Her designs showcase her

Designastration is a Boston-based design studio specializing in creating original artwork for children, tweens, and the whole family. Their artists tastefully blend elements of pop illustration and traditional patterns into unique surface designs that are undeniably fun, and diverse enough for a wide variety of product application. With

The Blueprint Show in May in New York is an exciting event for Cinnamon Joe Studio, not only because they are the event founder and organisers, but because they also exhibit there too.

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charming color palates and adorable characters, the designs are like their own pocket storybook, and bound to capture the imagination and make an impression.

Having been both a product development designer as well as a classically trained illustrator, studio founder, Tiffany Desmond, is known for infusing products with delightful characters and engaging color schemes.

Located in Lyon, the heart of the French creativity, Dessin & Cie is a recognized leader in the surface design industry for creating innovative designs. At Blueprint this year they will launch their latest collection created using home trends from Europe and the USA. Florals, conservation, wildlife, jungle, pets and a glimpse of an ethnic feel together with a wide and extensive selection of seasonal artworks.

Diane Cunnington is a french freelance graphic designer and illustrator. She lives and works in Paris - she is French with an English name.

Diane works in many fields: illustration for fashion, cosmetics, books, logos.

Poetic, delicate and cosmopolitan, her universe allies British and Indian inspiration and she loves to hand draw, paint or use watercolors to develop her patterns creating a soft, retro and sophisticated atmosphere.

She will be showing her latest pattern collection at Blueprint this year.

Dot Dash Studio are delighted to be returning to Blueprint for their second year.

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Based in the UK in the heart of the Leicestershire countryside, the Studio is the collaboration of 4 designers, all with a very distinct style – ranging from watercolour florals, bold vector character design, naïve conversationals and quirky hand drawn illustrations.

Their designs have been used for home décor, gifting, stationery and greetings cards for a variety of UK and US customers.

Building on the success of last year’s show the New 2018 Collection focuses on new seasonal themes using watercolour textures. Christmas ranges include Extreme Santa having fun on the

successfully create illustrations for Draw Me A Lion and publishers in the children’s picture book industry. Specializing in imagery for kids and animal lovers of all ages she often likes to insert a bit of fun into her creations. Favorite things to draw include animals of any kind, children, all things holidays, ocean or forest themed.

Lisa lives and works in Vancouver Canada.

Successful UK based design studio Elizabeth Stirling Designs, will be returning to Blueprint this year. With over 20 years’ experience in the design industry they are able to respond to clients needs and to identify trends both in Europe and America.

They will be showcasing a wide range of handpainted, digital and illustrative designs covering both seasonal and everyday themes which will be available for outright sale or license.

With an emphasis on customer relations they have forged many strong links to the stationary and gift industries and have enjoyed much success with customers like Walmart, Hallmark, Pier 1, Amscan and American Greetings.

slopes, typographical seasonal slogans and cute animal characters. New hand rendered florals with a vintage feel feature for spring summer.

With over 20 years experience of working in graphic design and fashion the team specializes in creating both trend driven and seasonal collections with a strong cohesive look.

Artwork is available for sale, license, flat fee license and they do also offer a bespoke design service.

Lisa Cinar is an illustrator and owner at the online stationery shop-extravaganza Draw Me A Lion. Free and spontaneous lines, fun and playful characters mixed with both bold and softer color combinations. Lisa Cinar continues to Este MacLeod’s art is informed by the real and the imaginary. Her background in textile and ceramic design is noticeable in the stylized, abundant and colorful forms used in her floral and bird designs. Este is inspired by travel, nature, dreams, seasons, sentiments and thoughts.

Este’s past collaborations with companies in the UK, Australia, Europe and the USA included homewares, wall art, greeting cards and paper products, calendars, dinnerware and publications.

Este’s new body of work leans itself to be applied onto surface decoration, textiles repeat

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Esther Bley Designs is the studio of artist Bley Hack, who creates hand-rendered artwork for a variety of markets. Using mainly watercolor, but often mixing it with other media, she paints designs inspired by the fresh florals and vintage charm she spies on her family farm. Her collections range from tropical birds to farm animals, and often include sweet sentiments in watercolor brush lettering. This year, she will be featuring pretty new work with a focus on all kinds of fauna, including moths and fish, accented with beautiful loose florals.

Finch & Foxglove is a dynamic art collective featuring the work of nine women artists from around the world. Founded in 2015 by Adriana Bergstrom, the art collective has made a name for themselves at surface design and illustration trade shows ever since. Their artwork covers a

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wide range of styles from fashion-forward prints to seasonal favorites, and they have licenses in nearly all commercial art categories.

Last year, two Canadian artists joined their flock: Sharon Montgomery from Victoria who specializes in lush painterly flora and fauna and Laurence Lavallée from Quebec whose work is bold, bright, and friendly. Sharon licensed work to Calypso Cards, landed a book cover, and sold wall art originals in North America.

It’s been a real whirlwind since the finches began exhibiting together, and this year has been no different. UK-based artist Lisa Kirkbride landed a wonderful licensing deal with crafting accessories company Catherine Pooler Stamps, and several of her floral illustrations appear in the Uppercase publication Botanica. Oxford-based artist Bryony Clarkson has been growing her menagerie of illustrated quirky cut-paper critters. Albaquirky (aka Tanya Paget), now has designs in Paperchase on a wide range of paper goods products. Her home decor line for Feathr was recently featured in UK based magazine House Beautiful.

In the U.S., Colorado artist Courtney Beth Keller is ready for Christmas! She has developed a new holiday collection featuring yetis (as in bigfoot!) which will be making its debut along with her trademark folk-inspired prints. Adriana Bergstrom has been painting up a storm. Inspired by her return to Florida she’s been painting tropical critters non-stop! She recently licensed artwork to Design Design Inc., Jillson & Roberts, and digital stationery giant PicCollage.

Foliage Inc. is a leading source of print designs for many of the worlds best-known brands, manufacturers and retailers. They are a collective of talented and versatile print designers who are carefully selected for their keen sense of design and ability to understand product development and trend. From their early start in San Fran-

cisco, to our current home in New York City, Foliage continues to flourish both nationwide and globally.They offer designs and licenses for a variety of end uses such as Apparel, Home, Stationary, Accessories and more.

Good Company Collective is the work of artists Jamie Bennett and Jen Lindup, both from Toronto, Canada. They will be showcasing a range of modern florals, playful illustrations and contemporary patterns for a variety of markets including apparel, home decor, gift/paper, bolt fabric and greeting cards. Jamie’s background is in editorial illustration. She has a deep love of color, outsider art and anything simple and modernistic. She will be showing lots of modern florals, holiday and character designs in her portfolio. Jen worked for many years as both a designer and buyer in the apparel and home decor industries. She has created a variety of florals and patterns in fun trend-forward color palettes. In addition to these everyday surface designs, she will have a collection of holiday designs featuring her handpainted illustrations and patterns. Her work is inspired by her travels and cultural influences from countries like Japan, Mexico, Spain and Morocco.

Harriet Mellor is a British artist currently based near Frankfurt, Germany. A fine art graduate, she is inspired by nature and travel and has lived all over the world including England, Thailand, Lithuania, Mexico, USA and Germany.

Her style is delicate and intricate, reflecting her love of subtle layered colours, florals, forests and

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Harriet’s work has appeared on a variety of products worldwide, from greetings cards ranges to stationery, and calendars to children’s bedding and wall art. She will be exhibiting independently at Blueprint for the first time.

Based in the UK, Image Source Art Licensing has been established for over 20 years with an impressive stock library of over 45,000 images covering a wide range of Christmas and everyday categories. They represent approx. 80 talented artists and illustrators and licence to key publishers worldwide.

Their experienced licensing team provide a tailored service to customers, ranging from 1000’s of stock designs at low cost to bespoke consultancy for range development and commissions.

Image Source is renowned for its outstanding traditional Christmas imagery and their artists have created wonderful new artworks, covering all the main commercial categories, including beautiful Santa artworks, Christmas characters, winter landscapes and traditional religious imagery to name but a few!

They exhibit at major trade shows throughout the year, including Blue Print, Paperworld and Spring Fair.

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which comes from her love and knowledge of plants and the eye of a trained gardener. Jill’s designs would suit the textiles, stationery and gift markets. They have several collections of new patterns available for licensing and purchasing.

Jennifer Nelson will be at Blueprint this year with her new art agent Nanda Rust..

Their ten artists have created some really wonderful images. Look for new work by Lauren Lowen, Anisa Makhoul, Miriam Bos, Kelly Angelovic, Rachel Grant, Jill Howarth, Rae Ritchie, Bee Brown, Jennifer Orkin Lewis, and Janna Krupinksi.

The agency will have plenty of fresh art on display in the most popular seasonal categories: winter holiday, spring florals, summertime coastal and autumnal harvest. In addition there will be art for birthday, thank you, congratulations and everyday as well as strong, smart women images, tropical birds, sloths and woodland animals along with hand lettering. In addition, they have butterflies, bugs, repeat patterns and placement imagery.

Jack & Jillo is a collective duo featuring surface pattern designers, Jackie Hurd of the U.S. and Jill O’Connor of the U.K. Both Jackie and Jill’s collections are always created from original hand drawn or painted artwork.

Jackie’s style is playful and unique— a great fit for the children’s, stationery and gift markets.

Jill’s style is fun, quirky and colorful, there is however a sophisticated beauty in her floral designs

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Kirsten Katz is the artist and designer behind Kirsten Katz Art & Design. She is an artist and surface pattern designer based in Sydney Australia. Kirsten will be exhibiting her latest work and new print collections from her portfolio internationally for the first time during Blueprint Show 2.

Kirsten uses traditional art methods and digital processes to create surface pattern designs and artwork that focus mainly on floral prints and wildlife.

Her designs incorporate modern floral illustrations, hand drawn botanical motifs, unique co-

lour combinations and geometric shapes that are on trend, bold, colourful and stylized.

In addition to signature floral prints, beautiful birds, geometrics and coastal themed work she will be exhibiting her new Christmas and Winter Holiday collections and also a new range of painted floral bouquets and folk inspired designs that she has been working on throughout the year.

Her surface pattern designs and illustrations are suitable for fabric, stationery, home décor, wall paper, packaging, gifts and more.

Larisa Hernandez is a professional illustrator and designer specializing in illustration and surface design. Based in El Salvado she works for both local and international clients.

She has over 20 years of professional experience working as a graphic designer and illustrator in

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She will be showing a collection of cute and fun prints for the baby and kids market.

the areas of brand identity, packaging, and coffee table book design and illustration.

She has sold her creations for apparel, paper products, branding industries, among others. As a way of participating in the development of her community, she has been teaching at top universities in El Salvador for the past 20 years.

Les Françaises is an French studio of graphic designs run by two friends: Karine Marlier and Mathilde Wydauw.

Both have been fashion and graphic designers for almost 15 years.

They share our creativity and skills to create a portfolio accessible to all areas from the textile industry to stationery, including decoration and communication.

The studio began three years ago and since then, taking inspiration from the world around them as well as travels, nature and family, they always work by following the same principle of enjoying what they do.

Leticia Plate has been illustrating for books, magazines and editorial publications across the US for many years. Born in Buenos Aires, raised in Rome, she moved to New York City to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts.

She has brought influences from multiple languages and cultures to create a unique visual language all her own.

Her signature style is all about expressive line and playful color, drawing first with ink on paper then working in color digitally. There are always elements of positivity, whimsy and cheerfulness to her pieces.

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With over 20 years’ experience in the textile industry, LJ Woodhouse Ltd is a leading British design studio producing innovative, original artwork for all aspects of the home interior, paper and giftware industries.

With an international reputation for creating high quality, commercially desirable artwork; studio owner Lucy Saxon heads an established team of creative, professional designers.

Exclusive artwork is essential to LJ Woodhouse Ltd; designs are sold outright and are CAD gen-

After earning her BFA in Graphic Design, Lisa Kubenez began her career in advertising and catalog layout. It was during one of these early jobs that she was asked to fill in while one of the in-house illustrators was way that she realized that she wanted to pursue a career in illustration. After working for several years as an illustrator and art director in the home decor industry, Lisa decided to break out on her own.

Designs by Lisa K was created, specializing in designing happy, whimsical illustrations and surface patterns.

Little Cube is a design & illustration studio based in Paris, France. Founder Sarah Betz specialises in the creation of surface patters and

erated providing clients with digital artwork which is both imaginative and accessible.

Clients can purchase artwork directly from the diverse online portfolio or commission the studio to create bespoke artwork for their individual requirements.

London Portfolio is a New Jersey based design studio specializing in creating artwork for the paper products and textile industry. Their collection is the creative effort of 25 worldwide

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All of their designs are original and available for sale or license. They encourage all of their customers to visit their website frequently because they are always adding new designs.

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hand-lettered elements. These collections include designs for holidays, children and the everyday. She will also have hand-lettered vectors of greeting sentiments, as well as quotes of faith, encouragement, girl power and more.

Marian Nixon is making her Blueprint Show debut bringing plenty of new patterns: Everyday, Kids, Plaids/Stripes, Florals, Geometrics, Birthday, Holiday, etc. Buyers will find watercolors, digital art, collages, along with unique blends of these

Lovely Bird Designs is a studio based in New York City founded and directed by Michelle B Gibson, who has been in the print and textile business for over twenty years. Some of their clients include Target, Barnes & Noble, Hobby Lobby, and CSS Industries etc.

As a newcomer to Blueprint they will be debuting their Holiday collections and everyday collections. They cater to both to the gift and apparel markets. Lovely Bird Designs studio has also exhibited at Surtex and Printsource in New York.

Margaux + Izzy is about fresh, contemporary pattern design and is interested in licensing agreements, buyouts and design collaborations.

Founder, Liz O’Brien has over 23 years of experience in the creative industry as an artist, graphic designer and product developer. She has designed for a larger stationery and gifting manufacturer for 17 years, selling to clients such as Target, TJ Maxx, Michaels, Nordstrom and Indigo Stores and more recently under Margaux & Izzy to Mattel, Macy’s, Summer Infant, Gartner Studios, Saturday Knight Ltd, Komar, Full Circle

What makes their designs unique is that they are trend-based but still marketable. They have unique collections that are both hand-painted and digitally rendered. They both license and sell outright, as well do commissioned projects.

Manayunk Calligraphy is the solo design studio of Kimberly Shrack. She specializes in handlettering and calligraphy, as well as illustration and pattern creation. Her designs have been featured on a range of products at a variety of retailers, including Anthropologie, Pier 1 Imports, Home Goods and more.

She will be bringing a variety of design collections to Blueprint, all of which include placement graphics, repeat patterns and, of course, strong

tration. Her aesthetic is two fold one being with a soft hand and the other bold, bright and fun.

She is recognized for her organic florals, whimsical illustrative style, playful holiday prints and her watercolor hand.

She enjoys bringing life to many products from everyday, juvenile, and baby, to wedding and seasonal themes.

media. A Louis Award-winner, Marian’s art is suited for Home Décor, Tabletop, Wall Coverings, Paper/Stationery, Greeting Cards, Ceramics, Bedding, Kitchen Linens/Ceramics, Gift Wrap, Fabric,Wall Décor, etc. Art is available for license and/or purchase.

Melissa Hyatt is an accomplished watercolor artist, surface pattern designer, and illustrator.

Melissa graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in surface pattern design. She then honed her design skills in her work as design director for Waverly Fabrics, and she has worked

Home and San Soleil to name just a few.

Since her recent launch at Blueprint in 2017, she has developed collections that reflect her impressive work in watercolor and digital illus-

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This year at Blueprint Show 1 she will debut her Nantucket Collection featuring watercolor sea creatures in shades of blues. Whales, lobsters, shells, coral and seahorses swim across the designs creating plenty of options for coordination.

Another new Collection is called Seaside Shorebirds in which soft shades of aqua and natural tones create textures, which compliment the sandpipers, piping plovers, and terns.

There will be Holiday and Christmas designs inspired by New England Winters, Colorful Vintage Trees and an Enchanted Winter Woodland theme.

Nerida Hansen Print & Textiles is an International Design agency, specialising in contemporary pattern design. Born with a minimalist aesthetic in mind, the agency includes art from Sweden, Norway and Finland, as well as contemporary talent from the USA, Canada, Spain, France, the UK and Australia.

Nerida’s experience as a licensed bedding buyer in one of Australia’s largest retailers helps link her clients’ commercial needs with their design aspirations. Their large base of clients include Cotton On Australia, Debenhams UK, Urban Outfitters UK, Camelbak, Spotlight Australia, Hobby Lobby, Procter & Gamble, Calypso Cards, Rug Republic and Premier Prints.

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ready for sale and license. Their colour pallets are inspirational and fashion-forward. With design styles varied across over 20 artists there will be designs to suit buyers of all categories who are looking for contemporary art.

Pattern Collections for fabrics, paper, stationery and home décor will also feature heavily. Their key artists have been focussing on conversational prints, fashionable blooms, and quirky kids designs, all with an urban, contemporary flavour.

Oak Print Design is the creative studio of Camilla Carvalho. Camilla is from Brazil and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. As a child she always enjoyed drawing and doodling but never pictured herself pursuing that career path. But

watercolour practice in her sketchbook, often combining them with line work to create various effects. Ohn Mar particularly likes to explore the contrast between watercolour, ink linework and PS elements when creating her designs. She has been fortunate enough to license her art on greetings cards, giftware and home decor and fashion items. Ohn Mar is also enjoys illustrating food, this work has appeared in cookery books, packaging, and magazines from around the world. Ohn Mar has created a line of kitchen towels and would love to see her food illustrations featured on a whole variety of kitchenware and table top items. She also has the pleasure of teaching aspects of food illustration and watercolour practice on the Skillshare platform.

Paper & Cloth will be presenting our spring summer 19 collection featuring luscious Botanicals, Mexican florals and inky underwater seascapes alongside some very cheeky monkeys and a whole menagerie of fun cute characters.

They specialise in designing graphics for kids stationery and interiors.Their designs have been used on products in Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel Kids , Paperchase and many more.

after working many years in another field, she decided to pursue her passion and now she works as a surface pattern designer and illustrator.

Her designs are bright and crisp, and mostly inspired by nature. She has a wide range of designs great for use in fabrics, stationery, apparel, children’s market and home decor industry. She is making her debut at Blueprint this year.

Ohn Mar Win is a UK based illustrator with over 20 years of experience in illustration and greetings cards. She is best known for her daily

Nerida’s visionary approach involves a focus on trend and colour, which recently saw the launch of her first published Trend Guide. The Guide is full of pattern interpretations and full references to the Pantone Forecasts for 2019. Using this design intel, they are thrilled to be launching the hundreds of exciting contemporary patterns

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The Pattern Boutique’s distinctive portfolio is filled with commercial conversational, seasonal, floral, tropical, coastal, ethnic and paisley designs amongst others, which long established clients consider as market viable, original and characteristic. As dedicated exhibitors to the NY trade show scene The Pattern Boutique was drawn to the intimate platform that Blueprint offers to directly connect with buyers, creative

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She hopes when people view her work, they’ll feel empowered, have a sense of adventure, and feel that they’re taking a big breath in toward the future. She’s currently working with one of her dream clients and hopes to work with more small businesses in the future because she loves that people can help support each other. She creates artwork for a number of markets including greeting cards, home decor, and bolt fabric.

directors, trusted clients and offering the opportunity to network with new clients. The Pattern Boutique looks forward to starting conversations with clients regarding their new projects and how they can assist in bringing these to life.

Betsy Siber is a creative, hard-working lady who calls Chicago home. Becoming a parent in 2010 opened her eyes to the markets of modern children’s books, children’s clothing and children’s products.

Betsy’s inspiration comes from vintage cookbooks, midcentury design, modern quilts. She is a proud member of Pencil Parade Collective, a collective of 4 women committed to inspiring each other and banding together to share their art.Her work is quirky, kid-friendly and colorful.

She is an exclusive designer with Michael Miller Fabrics and has also worked with Sock-it-to-me, Mpix and City Mouse.

everyday and envisions her work on all those objects we use in our daily lives. Her work is especially appropriate for greeting cards and stationery, party paper, home decor, and bolt fabric.

She aspires for warm, approachable designs that are also fresh and modern. Her illustrations and designs are homegrown and have roots in the past but with a contemporary sensibility. Warm colors and hand drawn or hand painted texture bring familiarity to her artwork. She also enjoys adding hand lettering to her collections. Katherine’s inspiration is often found in her own backyard: nature, gardens, everyday objects, vintage textiles, and children’s picture books. That inspiration comes through in her extensive portfolio which includes a wide variety of floral designs, festive holiday prints, and a number of collections appropriate for the children’s market.

Megan Dunagan is an illustrator on the Space Coast in Florida and is exhibiting under the Pencil Parade banner. Working alone in her studio

Peppyink Design Studio is a a fun creative UK studio with a strong emphasis on character and illustration design for the baby, juvenile and teen market. And they absolutely love what they do! They have over 15 years of industry and design experience.

They design all kinds of illustrations and surface patterns for lots of varying products. They are constantly looking at new and emerging trends, to make sure they are always designing original trend ready designs to make products look amazing!. They license artwork, sell all their artwork outright, and also welcome any projects on commission. They have a really exciting collection to show, focusing on a mix of trend driven Christmas, seasonal and everyday designs.

Pomelo & Pomelo will be at both Blueprrint shows this year with loads of colorful new artwork. Abby Zweifel, Sarah Watson and their newest artist, Jessica Neitzel, have been busy

Katherine Lenius is an illustrator and surface designer from Minneapolis and will be exhibiting at Blue Print Show with her art collective, Pencil Parade. Katherine grew up drawing on just about any surface she could find, including the walls. She now creates joyful art for the

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sketching, painting and preparing their designs for a variety of product categories such as paper/gift, home decor and textiles. There will be new collections for holiday, coastal, geometrics and florals, all showcasing a unique hand-drawn feel. They draw inspiration from their daily life, travel experiences and trend research. Abby has been experimenting more with gouache and watercolor, making each piece of artwork something truly special.

For the past 11 years Pure Illustration has been supplying publishers and manufacturers all over the world with artwork for their greetings cards, gift wrap, gift bags and many other products.They work with some of the biggest brands in the business as well as with some of the most talented artists who dedicate their art to this marketplace. At Blueprint they will be promoting new work for Christmas and a huge collec-

tion of imagery for all occasion categories such as birthday, wedding, and almost every other theme. Their licenses can be agreed on flat fee or royalty arrangements and they are always willing to help customers get exactly what they need.

Artists such as Deva Evans, Justine Kimmer,Anna Aitken, Catherine Aguilar and Sian Summerhayes have many successful licenses in the USA, all arranged through Pure Illustration.

They will be presenting many new artists to their US customers too like Emma Newton, Emily Stalley, Reginald Swinney, Melanie Chadwick and others.

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Rachael Schafer Designs creates with the philosophy that the world is small and connected but noisy. To find joy in all the noise of this world, we must look to the tiny moments.

A cup of tea with a friend.Finding a perfect treasure at a thrift shop.Time in a hammock with the gentle wind on your face. The way a thicket of trees makes a dark cool patch on a hot day. That feeling when you arrive to a long awaited destination and everyone is so thrilled to see you.

These flashes of spontaneous delight are found in the work of Rachael Schafer Designs.

Rachael’s work has brought joy into the home, with a line of products from world market featuring cities and points of interest. Her work has been given from one friend to another in the form of greetings from Artists to Watch and Design House greetings. Her work has been printed onto a range of consumer products from water bottles to pet beds and toys.

At Blueprint, she will be showcasing work ideal for home goods, greetings and paper goods, wallpaper and products for children.

Rachael is equally adept and comfortable creating visually stunning work in watercolor, gouache, pen and ink as she is working on digital pieces.

She works from her studio in San Francisco.

Tana Bana Design Services has been creating high quality artworks for the stationery and textile industry for over ten years. Spring has always been a time for new life and rebirth.

Gone are the doldrums of a particularly long and dreary winter, replaced with the bright and fanciful colors that nature has to offer. Drawing inspiration from this time of new beginnings they are excited to exhibit their latest collection of transitional conversational and seasonal designs. Classical motifs will be getting a makeover

integrity they are known for. Their high quality files are delivered in a timely manner and can be delivered in any format to suit a buyer’s needs.

It has been a very exciting time at Tana Bana, creating and curating their latest collection to illustrate the diversity of their talented artists. The shift in focus to these new transitional works has only further strengthened their traditional catalogue as well. Original and updated conversational, coastal, holiday and seasonal designs will all be on display. From watercolor florals to classic damasks, dogs and cats with funny hats to stately medallions, they are eager to have a chance to showcase these interesting new projects.

Sandra Bowers creates detailed, stylized, playful artwork for fabrics, stationery, kids, editorial, greeting cards and home decor. She creates art in different styles using digital and mixed media techniques. She will be launching her new portfolio at Blueprint Show.

Tatyana Starikova’s vibrant and joyful Art for Little and Big Moments comes alive in new holiday and everyday prints and patterns along with watercolor florals, bird imagery and hand

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It has been a great year for Tatyana, designing new collections and signing new deals with companies in the home decor, fabric, stationery, and tableware industries. Her designs have been sold nationwide in stores and online. She hopes to extend relationship with manufactures, buyers, and art directors and expand her licensing and commission opportunities in stationery, textile, home decor, and gift markets.

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available (and loves!) to work on collaborative custom designs as well.

Marsha will be presenting her artwork at both Blue Print shows this May and will also be at the very first West Coast Blue Print Show, October 2-4th, in San Francisco.

Tiffany Wong is a Toronto-based surface pattern designer. With her background in apparel and graphic design, she has a passion for offering fresh, fun and friendly patterns for a wide range of product categories. Her patterns are inspired by new places, travel and culture, nature and traditional forms. Tiffany uses a combination of freehand shapes and soft colour palettes to express her welcoming style. Visitors to Blueprint can expect a range of artwork available for licensing. Some dominant themes include tribal and culturally-inspired, playful motifs and geometrics. In addition, there will be a selection of holiday artwork in the mix. Tiffany currently licenses artwork for home, stationery and baby products and is eager to add to this list.

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Artist Marsha Rollinger’s studio, Equinox Art & Design is exhibiting at Blue Print for the first time after three consecutive years at Surtex. She is looking forward to building new partnerships with manufacturers in various markets at the show, as well as meeting with existing clients.

Equinox’s portfolio is made up of prints and patterns in a variety of themes, such as geometrics, seasonal, florals, and novelty, with options available for licensing and purchase. Marsha is also Willowberry Studio textile and surface pattern design by Angela Kilpatrick strives to create timeless designs from handcrafted florals and geos to sophisticated Christmas patterns for the home, fashion and paper markets. At Blueprint this year they will be featuring carefully curated mix and match patterns inspired by nature and travel as well as a small fresh boutique style card line.

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Artabella Collective is an international collective of 7 designers; Amber Shaw, Claire Elsworth, Deane Christiansen, Diana Kelley, Erica Ilene, Michelle Grace and Shelley Seguinot who all share a passion for design.

Making their trade show debut at Blueprint Show 2, they came together to form Artabella Collective to share trade show costs and workload. Together they create stunning and commercial surface pattern design available to purchase and license in all the main markets. Commissions are also welcome. They have a diverse range of styles and on-trend portfolio covering many categories: Florals, Christmas, Seasonal, Geometric, Abstract, Typography, Kids, including Repeats, Half drops, Placements and Motifs.

Claire, Deane, Diana, Erica and Shelley will be in booth 14 at Blueprint Show 2.

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a varied portfolio of on-trend designs in floral, abstract, geometric, conversational and seasonal design categories plus more.

Commenting, Claire said, “I am thrilled to be exhibiting at Blueprint in New York with Artabella Collective and cannot wait to show you my designs. I hope to make many lasting and profitable connections with companies and gain licensing deals.” info@claireelsworthdesign.com www.claireelsworthdesign.com

CLAIRE ELSWORTH Claire Elsworth is an up and coming UK surface pattern designer seeking licensing opportunities for her opulent and maximalist surface pattern designs. She is particularly interested in attracting licensees from wallpaper, home decor and bolt fabric companies. However, she is also open to all opportunities and commissions are welcome.

Her designs have featured on many top design blogs including Print and Pattern, Make it in design and Patternbank, and also in international design magazine MOYO. Her stunning Peacock Maximalist and Jay’s Jungle collections won the ‘Make it in Design Ultimate Portfolio Builder Trade Show Competition 2017’.

Making her trade show debut at Blueprint Show 2 this May 2017, Claire will be exhibiting with Artabella Collective where she will be showing

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ERICA IlENE/URBAN DAISIES Erica Ilene, of Urban Daisies, is a designer and artist from almost always sunny, southern California. With a degree in graphic design and a love for typography, her style lends itself towards vintage and retro styles with an updated contemporary feel, while some of her designs include a whimsical twist. She also has an extensive line of designs featuring unique typography in a variety of styles varying from whimsical, vintage, and mid century styles. Often she pairs her vintage style patterns with a mid - century inspired geometric coordinates. Her seasonal de-

signs ranges form retro, whimsical to a vintage traditional. She includes a variety of stylistic details that makes her typography unique. She also has a line of fonts that she designed and published for licensing. Her designs have been featured in several home decor magazines, such as Romantic Homes and Romantic Country Magazine as well as special DIY features and seasonal stationery features.

She also has a background in packaging design and branding and has designed and customized unique packaging design and branding for several boutiques across the United States. Her unique pattern collections are geared towards; bolt fabric, home decor, seasonal, and the gift market, and also include typography design collections for the stationery and paper market, as well as publications. ericailene@icloud.com www.urbandaisies.com

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DEANE CHRISTIANSEN Deane Christiansen of Deane Beesley Designs is an artist and illustrator living in Canada. She designs fabric for the quilting and sewing Industries and is currently working on her 10th collection.

Deane’s style is definitely vintage modern with a quirky twist. As she explained, “I love creating repeats for surface pattern design. I am currently looking to license my designs in the stationery, wallpaper and home decor industry. A thrill of mine would be rugs! I would love to see my designs on rugs!! hello@deanebeesley.com www.deanebeesley.com

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Michelle is seeking licensing opportunities within the greetings card, bolt fabric and ceramic industries. Her adaptable style and attitude makes her a desirable designer with highly competent creative and editing skills. She would love to create aesthetic art to your requirements and delivers in a prompt and professional manner. michelle@michellegrace.co.uk www.michellegrace.co.uk

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DIANA KELLEY Diana Kelley is a surface pattern designer specializing in patterns that feature bold shapes, happy colors and a hand-crafted sensibility. Her portfolio is particularly strong in geometrics, abstracts, and modern florals, with a special focus on design for kids.

Diana is new to licensing, and is making her debut at this year’s BluePrint Show 2.

She is a graduate of Rachael Taylor’s Make It In Design surface pattern design courses. In 2017 she was chosen as a top 10 finalist in the Make It In Design/PrintSource Trade Show competition. Her first published design is featured in the Spring 2018 issue of Uppercase Magazine.

While she is interested in all types of licensing, Diana feels her work is especially well-suited to the Interiors, Homewares, Bolt Fabric and Apparel markets. hello@dianakelleydesign.com www.dianakelleydesign.com

Michelle Grace has a unique signature style that is eclectic and visually exciting. From loose hand-painted watercolours to digital character motifs, her portfolio is expansive. A playful nature and passion for learning is embodied within her patterns and placement prints that have a fresh, experimental boldness.

Although Michelle is new to licensing she has sold outright and gained commissions from companies including Harrods, Creative Tops, Clarke and Clarke and Hobby Lobby, successfully adorning products including giftware, ceramics and bolt fabric.

AMBER SHAW For 8 years, Amber Shaw has worked in the scrapbooking industry on the digital side. Over the last year, she has been transitioning her work into the surface pattern world. She has a style that she has coined as “shab-ulously playful”, this is because she enjoys making very vintage, shabby, classic illustrations as much as she loves creating playful motifs that are suitable for the child’s market. Amber likes to think of her work overall as sweet, with a comfortable feel.

She has licensed her work to Becky Higgins, LLC the creator of Project Life. She has a notebook design and has designed for their Project Life app as well.

In Amber’s pursuit of licensing, it is her desire to develop lasting relationships with clients that know they can expect quality work that will consistently meet their art needs.

She is particularly interested in attracting clients for greeting cards, stationery, home decor and the children’s market, including fabric. amber@ambershawdesign.com www.ambershawdesign.com

SHELLEY SEGUINOT Shelley Seguinot is a whimsical illustrator and pattern designer. Her art has been licensed to various card manufacturers, including Shutterfly, Tiny Prints, Simply to Impress and Photo Affections.

In addition, her designs have been featured in the Emily Kiddy Trend books and published in Stationery Trends magazine. Shelley is looking to license her art to the children and home decor markets.

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SIGIS VINYLISM “The subject of my art is represented by the mouths – metaphor of words, interaction and universal love – differently coloured as the changes in my mood.”

Matteo Antonio Sigismondi Vaccari, known as Sigis Vinylism, began his artistic life during the early 1990s as a professional DJ. He was inspired by the large black music discs that blasted out grooves.

In 2007 he utilised them as an innovative form of artistic expression assuming unique forms.

For Sigis the the vinyls are irreplaceable and dreamlike providing a voice for this thinking and through the lips he gives them a new immortal life.

The lips enclose a soul, a past, a strong and silent protest. The discs change appearing without ever cracking.

After many successful exhibitions in Italy and overseas, Sigis collaborated with world famous galleries such as the Gallery of Modern Art (GAM), the Pictorial Gallery in Monte Carlo and the 010101 International Art Gallery in St Petersburg and Moscow to name a few.

At only 33, Sigis achieved the patent of the Artistic Movement as ‘Vinylism’ which has been recognised by the National Institute of Culture.

In addition he has obtained the recognition as ‘Maestro of Art’ during the 54th Venice Biennale curated by Vittorio Sgarbi.

After having participated at the 55th Venetian Biennale with ‘Back 2 Black at the Biennale’ -

an exhibition dedicated to the new artistic avant-garde - and with success at BrerArt 2013 in October of that year, the doors of his Art Atelier in Milan were opened.

The place was transformed into a vibrant hub for artists, culture and events which focused on stimulating young artistic talents. The artwork of Sigis has also been exhibited at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo with ‘The Atlantic Code of Leonardo da Vinci’ which personifies a form of innovative and artistic communication.

His artistic evolution has been rapid and intense

with new experiences and forms of art. The constant research for new designs and methods of incorporating vinyls was born from an extraordinary dynamic which perceives the study of reality in all its forms, interpreting surroundings through his own evocative perspective.

Sigis defines his art into several forms such as still photographs, installations, digital media, pictures, videos and music, through an alternative route of reading the ‘truth’ with irony and sensibility which fully involves the viewer.

For information, contact Maria Romanelli, Team Entertainment. +39 02 89 4121 41 info@teamentertainment.eu www.teamentertainment.eu

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