Syrian artist Abdulrahman Naanseh (b. 1991) learned Arabic calligraphy with the support of his father, a self-taught calligrapher. is an Artist Protection Fund alumni and the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at George Mason University’s School of Art.
INTERVIEW | Keyi Liu
China-born, London-based Keyi Liu is a Multimedia artist and Illustrator. Her works often take the confrontational relationship between human nature and societal rules as a starting point, analyzing the changes in human psychology under the oppression of various societal issues. The Last Dream series is a collection of illustrations created during the 2021 pandemic, exploring my reflections on constraints and freedom.
INTERVIEW | Chong Liu
Chong Liu is a New York-based concept artist and digital illustrator, originally from China. As a digital illustrator and concept artist immersed in the dynamic world of game development, Chong Liu’s creative journey is a fusion of imagination and technical expertise. His work is a testament to my passion for bringing fantastical worlds to life, and captivating audiences through visually compelling narratives.
INTERVIEW | Arman Khorramak
Arman Khorramak, a prominent artist born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. Ever since he was a child, he had a vivid imagination that allowed him to see things in a unique way. He would create stories in his mind and draw them out instead of talking about them. His process is fueled by his passion for music and his love for literature and cinema, which he blends into his artwork.
INTERVIEW | Morain An
Morain An is an illustrator who tries to communicate with the world through visual language. She lives and works in New York City. Her creative process is a journey of exploration and introspection. She delves deep into the subject matter, whether it's a social issue or an editorial topic, to fully understand its meanings and implications, developing a profound connection with the subject, which is reflected in her art.
INTERVIEW | Norino Shi
Norino Shi is an award-winning digital artist, illustrator, director, and visual narrative artist. Born in China and currently based in New York, her works mainly focus on females, Asian immigrants, and uncertainty about the universe & life and death. Considering herself as a Global Citizen, she aims to create a free spiritual world by stepping out of the shackles of space and time.
INTERVIEW | Danzhu Hu
Danzhu Hu is an award-winning Chinese visual storyteller, currently specializing in illustration and fine art painting. Through her practice, Hu wishes to create a world where the most cryptic, subtle, and complicated emotions can be captured, translated, and cherished. Hu's visual language also plays into the sense of emotiveness. Her work is filled with aesthetic cues reminiscent of nature's organic forms, where she hides subtle metaphors.
INTERVIEW | Rou Jiao
Rou Jiao's expertise in graphic design extends beyond traditional boundaries, as she adeptly combines her skills in AI art, motion design, and 3D art to create a truly immersive and captivating visual experience. Based in New York, she has been honing her craft since 2016, constantly pushing herself to explore new avenues and expand her creative horizons.
INTERVIEW | Fangyu Ma
Fangyu Ma is a Chinese illustrator designer. Most of her artworks are created digitally. She loves exploring different subject matters in her work. Her works are divided into two parts: decorative illustrations and narrative illustrations. She uses animals as a medium and tries to use different angles to describe them, which challenges the traditional way of perceiving things.
INTERVIEW | Hanyue Song
Hanyue Song is a designer of visual communications from Shanghai who currently resides in California. Her work examines the confluence of several disciplines, including visual design, branding & marketing design, user experience, and project planning in kid education. Her work styles are wide and varied due to her multidisciplinary background, which extends beyond her use of commercial or spontaneous artistic creations.
INTERVIEW | Rena Kubota
Rena Kubota is a freelance illustrator, motion and graphic designer, and art director for the NFT collection. The excitement in her work is seeing people like her work, asking what the piece's meaning may be and why she chose certain details. She wants her story to be a beacon to young artists that struggled, as she did not give up hope in finding a purpose for her art in the professional environment.
INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao
Wenxu Zhao is an illustration artist, born in China and currently living in New York. Her work focuses primarily on invention and fantasy. Her artwork and paintings are inspired by her daydreams, her discovery of beauty in life, her self-reflection, and her views on certain aspects of life. Her purpose is to express her emotions and thoughts while also bringing beauty and warmth to the rush and chaos of modern life.
INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi
Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.
INTERVIEW | Ashling (Yaxin) Tu
Ashling (Yaxin) Tu is a Chinese Illustrator, Designer, and sculptor, living in the USA. Ashling primarily works on a digital pad for 2d arts. Her 3d sculptures are, in contrast, mainly built from natural materials and existing objects she picks up on the street. The young artist believes both reality and the digital world are as important in the current human society.
INTERVIEW | Taweechob Pinthong
Taweechob Pinthong is an artist and illustrator based in Bangkok. His illustration translates the unwavering love you feel for all living things without question, that you extend knowingly without expectations for anything in return. His style and technique are very dynamic because he is still in the process of experimenting. His body of work based on philosophy seeks to understand fundamental truths.
INTERVIEW | Nora Lagström Jebara
Nora Lagström Jebara is a young female artist of dual Palestinian and Swedish identities, currently residing in Lund, Sweden. Her latest series, Mentally Occupied, is a collection of digital visuals. The visuals expose different mental disorders, which are universal disorders that humans experience regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or geographic location.
INTERVIEW | Jonathan Frübis
Jonathan Frübis, who goes under the name of SKETJET, is an illustrator and designer based in Mannheim/Germany. He creates interior art, murals and individual office design pieces for numerous corporate clients. Apart from that, he spends his remaining time painting classical contemporary art paintings, with motives that show private moments from his life and people that are close to him.
INTERVIEW | Moree Wu
Moree Wu is an award-winning art director, graphic designer & illustrator. In her artworks, she has always tried to use graphics to recreate some interesting aspects of daily life that may be inadvertently overlooked, aiming to convey a series of subtle emotional & sensational changes that flow in her mind and life. "Whimsical Simplicity" & "Playful Poetry" are the ultimate goal she has been exploring.
INTERVIEW | Dan Petersen
Dan Petersen is a visual artist from New Jersey, USA. His love for the psychedelic has led to largely abstract works that incorporate vibrant colors, trippy patterns, and dynamic textures. Each piece's intent is to challenge the viewer while also allowing for an abstract simplicity, ultimately leaving it up to the viewer to decide how the piece should be interpreted.
INTERVIEW | Jayakar Priyadharshan
Jayakar Priyadharshan is a Contemporary Speculative Architect of Indian origin currently in the UK. He is well known for his works in the field of architectural aesthetic practice. One of his famous works is what he calls the invisible building (A building facade that can hide from the eyes of Artificial Intelligence), where he talks about the flipsides of artificial intelligence and countering the rise of AI.
