Artist Profile: Uniqlo

Berto Martínez
www.bertomartinez.blogspot.com
Berto Martínez is an illustrator collaborating and publishing since some years ago in different media.

Emil Kozak
www.emilkozak.com
Emil Kozak is from Denmark, and was inspired to take on graphic design as a result of his life long passion for skateboarding. He began at an early age to develop his skills, inspired by skateboard-art and the result today is a unique artist with brilliant ideas. The style is fresh and positive, but often with a message that digs deeper. He is a master of composition and has an eye for detail, that is not seen very often. Typographic, clean lines and few colors is often how Emil Kozak`s artwork is described. Yet, there is always an unexpected surprise: obscure references, playing with words, codes and hints.

Dr. Alderete
www.jorgealderete.com
Jorge Alderete is a pop illustrator, who uses trash culture, 50's science fiction films, wrestling and surf music imagery in his psychotronic illustrations, animations and comics. In 2006 he joins up with Clarisa Moura, Quique Ollervides y Cha to open Kong, the first design store and gallery in Mexico speciailzed in international graphic design, illustration and street art. In 2007, with Andres Amaya, he forms Plan B, the first urban vinyl toy production company in Mexico.

Geneviève Gauckler
www.g2works.com
Geneviève Gauckler is a Paris based artist who creates numerous lovable characters, blends them into everyday life scenes and turns the fantastical world into reality with her magical power. She has an evident taste for simple, colorful shapes. She's into everything and constantly amazed, handling and creating images and shapes with dexterity and innocence.

Happypets
www.happypets.ch
Happypets is an experimental lab in the creative domain. Happypets collaborates for certain projects with different people; artists, fashion designers, filmakers and musicians and work with all sorts of different media, even though we are especially interested by illustration and our work is more and more turned towards this media. One of the caracteristics of Happypets work is its diversity and the different graphic styles used, different graphic languages mixed together to form a composition. Each work is unique and must have its own style and say it's own thing, as each work is different and communicates something different.

Kustaa Saksi
kustaasaksi.com
Kustaa Saksi's illustrations are a syrupy disarray of elements: playful, paradoxical, often over-glossy, inviting, troubling, messy, and yet strangely clear. Finland born illustrator, nowadays living and working in Paris, combines organic touches and viscous shapes into new world pyschedelia. Saksi has been working with various clients in the world of fashion, music and entertainment. His unique imagination with strict Scandinavian design roots illustrate the wonderful world of surrealistic landscapes, strangely beautiful characters and strong atmosphere.

Mario Hugo
www.loveworn.com
Mario Hugo is a New York based artist and designer. Though he spends an inordinate amount of time in front of his computer, Mario Hugo still feels most honest with a pencil and two or more sheets of paper.

Phunk Studio
www.phunkstudio.com
Phunk Studio is Asia's leading art and design collective. They have propagated a visual signature that seamlessly blends their diverse influences into a singular creative thought that never fails to revive itself in the ever-fleeting world of art, design and culture. Their crossdisciplinary approach is best described as "an aesthetic collective consciousness" focused on experimenting with new approaches to visual intelligence. Their expansive scope of projects spans across art, design, publishing, style, music, film and interactive.

PMKFA
www.pmkfa.com
Micke Thorsby aka PMKFA is a graphic designer born in Sweden. He works in multi-fields from illustration to art-direction. His previous work has been deeply related to music and fashion. He is also a co-founder of the T-shirt label "It's Our Thing" of his own design.

Rinzen
www.rinzen.com
Australian design and art collective Rinzen is best known for their collaborative and illustrative approach, creating utopian alternative realities and other worlds. Rinzen's posters and album covers have been exhibited at the Louvre and their large scale artwork installed in Tokyo's Zero Gate and Copenhagen's Hotel Fox.

Saiman Chow
www.saimanchow.com
A native of Hong Kong, came to US at his teens. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in California, Saiman went on to make a name in editorial illustration and fine art scene. He co-found the design collective United Bread later and soon translates his talent into motion graphics and lend his creativity to Brand New School on a variety of award-winning projects.

Silvia Prada
www.silviaprada.com
Silvia Prada, artist and illustrator lives and works in Barcelona. Her work incorporates a strong ideology of movement within a broad range of cutting-edge contemporary pop culture including fashion, design, art and illustration.

Syrup Helsinki
www.syruphelsinki.com
Established in 2001 and run by Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula, Syrup Helsinki is a multidisciplinary design agency offering creative direction, art direction and design for various clients. Suviala and Hinkula are also the masterminds behind the art group/ clothing label Nada Go-Go.

Vasava
www.vasava.es
Vasava is a communication studio started in Barcelona in 1997 with a team of 17 young people from various fields and disciplines. They take on very diverse projects for shared supports. They have a new way of dealing with the creative process based on experiment and commitment, and the search for new communication values, trends and fresh ideas is what inspires us. They use a single criterion and objective to take off in different directions, working the same idea in all its possibilities and formats, capturing the most excitement they can and generating inputs.

Rinzen
www.rinzen.com
Australian design and art collective Rinzen is best known for their collaborative and illustrative approach, creating utopian alternative realities and other worlds. Rinzen's posters and album covers have been exhibited at the Louvre and their large scale artwork installed in Tokyo's Zero Gate and Copenhagen's Hotel Fox.