Illustration: Suzy Malik.                       Illustration: Aries Cheung            llustration: Maurice Vellekoop

 

 

Aries Cheung studied design and illustration at the Hong Kong Polytechnics University, and graduated in Visual Arts at York University. He has worked as a graphic designer and art director for advertising for many years. Cheung is now an independent, practicing visual artist and teacher. His interests include painting, drawing, digital imaging and photo-based, mixed media work. He has exhibited at galleries locally and abroad.

Willow Dawson graduated with honors from the Ontario College of Art and Design and works as an illustrator and cartoonist for various clients including YWCA Canada, Owl Magazine, Kids Can Press, Top Shelf Comics, Filmblanc, Shameless Magazine, Broken Pencil Magazine, Sumach Press, Kiss Machine, Strange Horizons, and Tightrope Books.  Willow is the illustrator of award-winning graphic novels: No Girls Allowed with Susan Hughes (Kids Can Press) and Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate with Emily Pohl-Weary (Kiss Machine), and, most recently, [insert title] (Kids Can Press).  

Suzy Malik is a Toronto based artist who is motivated by the powerful pairings of pictures and words. Likely sparked by comic books, this passion lead to the study of New Media and landed Malik in the wonderfully diverse world of Illustration and Graphic Design.

Vajdon Sohaili is of Persian descent but was raised in Zimbabwe.  Vajdon moved to Toronto from Los Angeles in 2005 with his partner Thom.  He has been an actor, a writer, and an artist.  This fall, he goes back to school to study Art History.  He recently committed Facebook suicide, and can't tell you how great it feels.
    
Maurice Vellekoop's editorial clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Glamour, Wallpaper, Out, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Saturday Night, Cosmetics and Fashion. Advertising clients range from Spotco, LVMH, Abercrombie and Fitch, Smart Car and Pink Triangle Press to, most recently, Murale, a brand new chain of cosmetics stores. Maurice's book publishing clients include Running Press, Harper Collins and Universe/Rizzoli. His work has appeared in American Illustration and was included in "Stylishly Drawn" by Laird Borrelli, a book on contemporary fashion illustration published by Harry N. Abrams.  Maurice is the author/illustrator of 4 books of his own work with Drawn and Quarterly and Green Candy Press. His work has been shown numerous times at the Reactor Gallery in Toronto, the Mayor gallery in London and in a traveling group show called "New Pop" that stopped at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice.