Matériel Magazine

Born in Arlington, Texas and brought up in Singapore, Andrew has returned to the United States to expand his horizons. When he first started out, he had always read about his design heroes in books, and coming to New York City was a great opportunity to learn more, and hopefully one day meet them. Currently a student at the School Visual Arts, he is en route to living up to his dreams. His work consists of graphic design, used alongside elements of illustration, photography and 3D design.

Bad-Oni: “Under the guidance of celebrated typographer Ed Benguiat and hand tracing out Bodini letterforms, I felt that the bar and the serifs of the letter “E” resembled a thong. This is my interpretation of Bad-oni.”

Jing Wei is a Chinese-born illustrator and printmaker. Since graduating from RISD, Jing has been making artwork for a variety of clients, including McSweeney's, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Etsy, and Chronicle Books. Jing is currently based in Brooklyn, and works out of a sunny studio in Greenpoint.

FRENCH KISS

Mark Pernice is partner and co-founder of Young Professionals, a design and illustration studio in Brooklyn, NY.

A New York native and School of Visual Arts alum, he advanced from early work in movie poster design to designing for a variety of clients and industries as a now-longtime art director, designer and illustrator. In the spring of 2010 Pernice’s ”Photo Booth Mask” project gained widespread attention when what began as an exercise to teach his relatives how to use their iMac ended in a project that Fast Company called “delightfully horrible” and Gizmodo called “almost divine grotesqueness.”. Pernice spent part of 2008 working under renowned graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and Paula Scher in 2010.

Paul Hoppe is a freelance-illustrator for newspapers, magazines and advertising agencies, and an author and illustrator of children’s books and graphic novels.

His illustration clients have included The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Addidas and IBM . His work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3x3, and PRINT.

Paul teaches Visual Narrative in the Illustration Residency at the School of Visual Arts. Born in Poland and raised in Germany, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

Happiness Is A Warm Gun: “Inspired by the Beatles song of the same name, this short illustrated tale shows a harmless club outing gone very bad. A cautionary tale!”

Lotta Nieminen is an illustrator, graphic designer and art director from Helsinki, Finland. She has studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has worked as a freelancer in both fields since 2006. After working for fashion magazine Trendi, Pentagram Design and RoAndCo Studio, Lotta is now a full-time freelancer based in New York City.

In 2010, Lotta received the Art Directors Club Young Guns award and was selected by Print magazine for its annual New Visual Artists review, highlighting 20 international rising designers under the age of 30. She has illustrated for the likes of clients such as Hermès, New York Times, Volkswagen, United Airlines, International Herald Tribune, Monocle, Newsweek, Wired UK and Bloomberg Businessweek.

BAD: “This piece brings together all the things I never get commissioned to illustrate”

Leif Parsons was educated in Canada and New York and has degrees in Philosophy and Design. He has been working as an illustrator for a Number of years and has been published by a variety of editorial and commercial clients including New York Times, McSweeney’s and Nike. He simultaneously has been executing personal art, which has been shown on both coasts under the name Low-beer. He has recently been focused on trying to find the line between looseness and tightness, between deliberate idea and spontaneous expression, between observation and imagination.

Is a free man, and he looks fantastic.

Is a free man, and he looks fantastic.