Volume 4
More than double the size of Paper Darts’ previous print magazines, Volume Four is obscenely huge, featuring a swelling handful of authors, artists, and musicians who have made a blood oath vowing to explore nonconforming perspectives of art and culture.
Inside the 96 pages:
Art pieces: 94
Fiction stories: 14
Illustrations:14
Poems: 12
Book cover designs: 39
Interviews: 18
Volume Four features more interviews (many with artists by artists) than ever before to bring you closer to your new favorite authors, book designers, and illustrators; the works of seasoned story master Peter Bognanni next to work from college freshman and burgeoning writer Tara Abrahams; illustrated fiction from the likes of the young and talented Allegra Lockstadt alongside spreads celebrating veteran illustrator Olaf Hajek; and a quadruple wham-pow of page-turning entertainment that is going to make your head spin.
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Contributors:
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Adrianne Mathiowetz is a documentary/performance photographer currently residing in Minneapolis. She is a graduate of The Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, and her work has appeared in Wired, the Star Tribune, Boston Metro, Stuff Magazine, and on MN Original, and has been exhibited at the Mpls Photo Center. She blogs at openopenclose.net.
What celebrity would you want to play you in the movie of your life?
"Does everyone answer this question with "Bill Murray"? I feel like it's extra true for me, so I call dibs, everybody."
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Adam Peterson is the co-editor of The Cupboard and the author of The Flasher and My Untimely Death. His fiction can be found in Indiana Review, The Normal School, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
Who would win in a fight- a mummified robot or a robotified mummy?
"Everyone watching."
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Allegra Lockstadt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2006, after graduating high school she moved to Minneapolis to pursue a BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She graduated in 2010 and is currently working as a freelance illustrator, researcher, designer, and brand developer while still devoting time to her personal work.
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Andrew Bannecker is an award winning artist and illustrator currently based just outside Washington, D.C. His work has been recognized by The One Show, Communication Arts, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, and 3x3 Magazine among others, and he was included in Luerzer’s Archive of 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide. His clients include Coca Cola, Nike, Neiman Marcus, and Starbucks, to name a few.
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Anis Mojgani’s favorite books are Maniac McGee, East of Eden, and To Kill a Mockingbird. His favorite Bob Dylan song is “Boots of Spanish Leather.” The possibility of no libraries in this world fills him with an angry sadness. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and their dog.
Where in the world and/or time is Carmen Sandiego? And is she guilty?
"Perhaps a better question to ask is where is Kramer? Who yes is most definitely guilty."
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Anke Weckmann grew up in a small town in Germany, surrounded by books, cats, and fields. Now she lives in London and spends her days surrounded by pens, paper, and cups of tea. She also loves running, doing yoga, watching cheesy dance films, and eating lots of vegetables.
If you had a vanity license plate, what would it say?
"I don't know! Living in London I'm lucky enough to not need a car and I'm not sure how vanity license plates even work...sorry."
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Antony Squizzato has been exposed to many creative fields: motion, illustration, art direction, font design, 3D, indie games. In 1999 he co-founded the Periscope digital agency.
What was your favorite halloween costume as a kid? Or what did you what to be, but you couldn't, because your mom wouldn't let you?
"As a kid, I was not celebrating Halloween. It was not popular at this time in France, and especially in the little town I grew up named Aurillac. "
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Bess Winter’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses and many other places. She is Podcast Editor at The Collagist and holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University.
What is your ideal pizza?
"My ideal pizza was served at the Agostino sisters' birthday party in 1992."
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Bill Ferenc is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer from St. Paul. He lives with his boyfriend, Ben, and their special buddy, Tadgh (a cat). Drawing and painting are his most favorite activities but he holds a sincere passion for playing the keyboard (although not very well).
If you were a kazoo, who would you want to be played by?
"If I were a kazoo I would want to be played by the wind from a midwestern tornado! But if it has to be a person than I would say Robert Schneider from The Apples and Stereo. :)"
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Brandi Wells is Managing Editor of The Black Warrior Review and a web editor at Hobart. She is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset (Tiny Hardcore Press) and Poisonhorse (Nephew, An imprint of Mudluscious Press). Her writing can be found in Salamander, Mid-American Review, Gargoyle, Forklift Ohio, 14 Hills, and many other journals.
If you could be half human and half animal, what animal would your other half be? And which half would it be?
"If I could be half-animal my other half would would be Griffin. I suppose my left side would be Griffin and my right would be human. So I would still have thumbs and could open doors and make sandwiches, etc."
Brad Liening lives in Minneapolis. He’s the author of Ghosts and Doppelgangers (Lowbrow, 2011) and several chapbooks, and he helps edit InDigest Magazine.
Who is your favorite Saved by the Bell cast member?
"Ox."
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Brett Warnock is one of the publishers of Top Shelf Productions, in business since 1997, purveyors of fine comics and graphic novels. He lives in Portland with his son and cat.
Which pet is superior: canines or felines?
"I won't say either cats or dogs are superior… they each have their plusses and minuses."
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Caitlin Hackett grew up surrounded by redwood trees and mountains on the northern coast of California and moved to New York City to go to school. Getting her BFA from Pratt institute in 2009, she has continued to live in Brooklyn since graduating. Her work alludes to the boundaries that separate what is human from what is animal, and how that boundary is distorted.
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Casey Weldon lived in Los Angeles up until his graduation from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. After spending several years in each Las Vegas and Brooklyn, he now lives in the Pacific Northwest where he works as an illustrator and fine artist.
In the 1980's sitcom Who's the Boss?, who really ran the show?
"Who's the Boss was ran by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, though I ultimately suspect Marcy Carsey had something to do with it."
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I'm a Minneapolis based lifestyle, aerial, portrait, and conceptual photographer/director. I have worked independently for a wide variety of companies, advertising agencies, and design firms for the last 7 years on a board range of image and motion campaigns.
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Coralie Bickford-Smith graduated from Reading University studying typography and graphic communication and has worked in-house at Penguin Books since 2002. Coralie’s book covers have been recognised by the AIGA and D&AD and have featured in a numerous international magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Vogue, and The Guardian.
Which Harry Potter character do you relate to the most?
"I just did a quiz online and its just as I thought I relate to Harry the most, it said:You’re a leader and a good friend. You have a tumultuous past, but that doesn’t get in the way of your future."
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Cosmic Nuggets is the brainchild of a youngish(getting slowly older) Scottish artist. From an early age he allowed his imagination to run free, thoroughly exploring the inner dimensions of his brain. During these explorations he gradually discovered an intense interest in biology, specifically the areas of species and evolution. It has now become his responsibility to bring his imagined beings to life, to give them a personality, families, neighbours, co workers, pets and everything in between.
You're in 7th grade, and your crush is writing in your yearbook. Write us the ultimate fantasy message you'd receive.
I would totally hope it would be something super amazing like how dreamy and handsome I am (was), just like the Fonz, but......in reality maybe something instead about my dorky white hair, corduroy jacket with name patch and not forgetting my freestyle illustrative interpretations of my favorite Star Wars aliens, all my 7th grade super powers!! y e a h.
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Derrick Brown is one of America’s most beloved and well travelled performing page poets. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country,” Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author of four books of poetry.
If the cast of Friends was trapped on a desert island, who would be the first character to suggest cannibalism?
"Kramer."
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Dylan Hicks is a writer, musician, editor, proofreader, and the author of the novel Boarded Windows.
If you could only have one snack food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
"I’m loyal to a particular brand of energy bar, though not to the point that I want to plug them here. It’s really only the pressures of social life that keep me from eating these bars to the exclusion of all other food."
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Eric Vrooman’s short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, Passages North, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, Twelve Stories, and Ninth Letter. He is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and a SASE/Jerome Award. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College.
If you could beat any record in the Guinness World Book, which would it be?
"Heaviest Broccoli or maybe Most Underpants Worn at Once (since that title is held by a weatherman, and I'm tired of weatherpeople winning everything)."
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Gretchen Marquette served as the 2011 assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review and is the current editor of Redbird Press’ broadside series. Her work has appeared in Más Tequila Review; Poetry City, USA; the What Light poetry project; and more. She’s a semi-regular contributor to Barbaric Yawp, a monthly reading series, and has participated in the Maeve’s Sessions as part of the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read & Road Show. She lives in Minneapolis.
If you had to dye your hair one color from a box of crayons for a whole year, which color would it be and why?
"Prussian Blue (renamed Midnight Blue by Crayola in 1958.) The blue in blueprints, it was created by a painter in 1706. When you make it in a lab, you get cyanide, from the Greek word "dark blue." Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is 80% Prussian Blue. It might be the best color in the world. "
Jacquie Fuller
Jacquie Fuller hails from Alaska and Texas, and currently lives with her husband in Minneapolis. She writes poetry and fiction, works as a public radio announcer and sings in an all-female amateur choir.
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Janaka Stucky is the author of The World Will Deny It for You and Your Name Is the Only Freedom. He is the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary journal Handsome. He likes his whisky neat and his music dirty.
In an epic battle to the death, who would win: Godzilla or Reptar?
"Being creatures of fantasy they draw their strength from our collective unconscious. Considering I had to Google "Reptar," my money's on Godzilla."
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Jason Booher mostly designs book covers at Alfred A. Knopf. He also teaches at Parsons and works with his wife, Helen Yentus, as the design team Yentus & Booher. Lately he has been making games and experiences at Interval Studios.
Who is Batman's best matched rival (Joker, Penguin, Riddler, etc..) and why?
"I will have to be very predictable and go with The Joker. More than anything Batman needs and fights for order, he lives by strict personal constraints. Joker is his opposite: chaos in the uncontrollable, unthinking horror of what humans can be and do."
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Jason Heller is the author of the novel Taft 2012 and the nonfiction editor of Clarkesworld. He’s also a regular contributor to The Onion A.V. Club, Alternative Press, and others, and his short stories have appeared all over the place. Humans intrigue him. He can be found at jason-heller.com.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck was planning on having a bonfire later on in the evening?
"Ice cream doesn’t have bones."
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Jacquie Fuller
Jacquie Fuller hails from Alaska and Texas, and currently lives with her husband in Minneapolis. She writes poetry and fiction, works as a public radio announcer and sings in an all-female amateur choir.
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Jay Gabler is arts editor at the Twin Cities Daily Planet and a co-founder of The Tangential. He writes the hyperfiction blog Unreality House.
Would you rather not be able to read for a year or not be able to listen to music for a year?
"I'd choose music over reading, unless the reading ban would be absolute and I wouldn't be able to read which door at Cowboy Slim's is for dudes and which is for dudettes."
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Jill Summers writes short stories, puppet shows, and once, a play. Her fiction has been featured on NPR and published in Monkeybicycle, decomP, Knee-Jerk, Ninth Letter, Annalemma, THE2NDHAND, and MAKE Magazine, among others. She teaches in the First-Year Writing Program at Columbia College Chicago.
Would you rather spend eternity with water in your ears or an itch on the roof of your mouth?
"Either, as long as someone else made the choice."
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Joanna Andreasson was born in Sweden, raised in Cork, Ireland, and returned to Stockholm where she received an MFA in graphic design and illustration from Konstfack, University College of Arts Crafts and Design. Since graduating from Konstfack, she has worked as a painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and art director.
If you were ever caught sleepwalking, what do you think you would be found doing?
"Hmm. I would like to say that I would have whipped out my paints and started up on a large piece I've wanted to paint for ages but the truth is I'd probably be catching up with work."
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Joanna Concejo was born and raised in Poland, where she was inspired to become an illustrator by her grandmother who loved to tell stories and her aunt who loved to draw. She now lives in France with her husband.
When you were little, where did you hide all of your secret treasures?
Secret treasures? I know, it must be strange for you, but I don't remember having "treasures". Maybe I've got some box with small pieces of colored glass.
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Kathryn Macnaughton is an illustrator from Toronto. She graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design. She combines her drawings with collage and digital graphics, mixing vintage magazine materials with random objects, patterns, or typefaces. Her work has appeared in magazines, on books and album covers. You can see more of her work at kathrynmacnaughton.com.
If you got to go on a shopping spree in a store of your choice, where would you go? (Example: clothing store, electronics store, outdoor recreation store [brands optional].)
"Probably a flea market. Specifically Le Puces (the Paris flee market)."
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Kirk Pinho, a graduate of the University of Alabama's MFA Program in Creative Writing, is the assistant editor and lead political reporter for a newspaper in Michigan. His poems most recently have appeared or are forthcoming inburntdistrict, Wisconsin Review, The Journal, Everyday Genius, and others. You can find him at hellokirkpinho.com.
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Kris Chau was born and raised in Hawaii, was schooled in the Bay Area, has worked in Philadelphia, and is now residing in Los Angeles. Designer by day, drawing ninja by night, survived by a cat named Gandalf.
Where is the first place you would go in the zombie apocalypse?
"I unfortunately have a feeling that if a zombie apocalypse arises, I would [be] part of the population that ended up surviving. So I would do the logical thing and get on my bike and stay calm."
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Kyle Coughlin is a designer and illustrator living in Minneapolis. He enjoys drawing, screen printing, and being awesome.
What are you most likely to say if you are caught talking in your sleep?
"I would probably be quoting old 30Rock episodes."
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Landland is a two-person illustration & design studio in Northeast Minneapolis. They make things all the time. They are probably making things right now, unless something horrible happened to them. Or unless they fell asleep. Sleeping feels awesome.
If you were a chess piece, what would you be and why?
Dan: I think I'd be a knight...they're the best at moving through crowds without making a big deal of it.
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Leslie Jamison is only 28, but she’s already had a remarkable literary odyssey that started with an early childhood ambition to be a fiction writer, continued on to Harvard College and its vaunted Advocate, then took her to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has finally (for now) landed her at Yale University, where she’s studying for a Ph.D. in English. She’s the author of an acclaimed novel (The Gin Closet, Free Press, 2010) and has just been awarded the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize—the Minneapolis house will publish Jamison’s in-progress collection The Empathy Exams: Essays on Pain.
If the world were to end in the next 23 1/2 minutes, what would be the last syndicated sitcom that you watch (sans commercials) and why?
"You're really killing me with the 23 1/2 minutes. (Melrose Place and American Gladiators, my top picks, are both nixed). I'll go with Supermarket Sweep, if it's allowed, or else Saved by the Bell."
Lilly Piri is a visual artist/illustrator from Queensland, Australia. She moved to Germany in 2007 and wandered back home in 2011, with three solo exhibitions and fluent Deutsch under her belt. Her work has been featured in Frankie, Yen, Empty, Semi-Permanent, Curvy, and more.
If you owned a CB radio what would your "handle" be?
"Perlorian Cat. After one of my favourite book series by Satoru Tsuda."
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Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. Her first collection, Daddy’s, is out now on featherproof books. Her second collection, DON’T KISS ME, will be out on FSG next summer. Find her at lindsayhunter.com.
If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
"If I could have any superpower, it'd be the ability to conjure up a fresh episode of Dateline on command. Because without Keith Morrison, I'm nothing."
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Lisel Jane Ashlock is a New York-based illustrator and designer whose work ranges from editorial to publishing and advertising. Painting her images on birch panel, she approaches each piece with a sensitivity and acknowledgement to the natural world.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Related: Why did the chicken cross the road?
"Arg. That question makes me feel like how my cat must feel when she has tape stuck to her tail, and she goes around and around and around chasing it."
Matt Mauch is the author of Prayer Book (Lowbrow Press) and the chapbook The Brilliance of the Sparrow (Mondo Bummer). He hosts the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read and Maeve’s Sessions readings, edits the annual anthology Poetry City, USA, teaches creative writing at Normandale Community College, and lives in Minneapolis.
If you were a Roller Girl, what would your Roller Girl name be?
"The International Roller Girls Master Roster Registry showed me that "1PAC," "Habeas Kickass," and "Princess Lay-Ya Flat" were already spoken for. I've settled, then, on "Karma's Little Helper." It frees me from responsibility for my actions, yet lets me take them all the same, and not just for me, but for all of us."
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Matt Rasmussen’s poetry has been recently published in Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, and at Poets.org. He’s a 2012 McKnight Artist Fellow and teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College. His first book, Black Aperture, won the 2012 Walt Whitman Award and he’s a founding co-editor of Birds, LLC, a small, independent poetry press.
If your favorite restaurant were to name a burger after you, what would it be called, and what would be on it?
"It would be called the Self-Deprecation Burger. It would feature saggy lettuce and Hunt’s catsup and other obviously subpar toppings and condiments."
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Olaf Hajek is one of Germany’s most renowned illustrators and has, through countless works, developed his personal and frequently awarded style. Hajek decomposes the borders between authenticity and thought, South American folklore, mythology, religion, history, and geography. More than anything else his work explores the opposition between imagination and reality in the context of western cultures.
If you could live one day as someone else, who would it be and why?
"In my next life I want to be a bird, living with the nature and follow just my instincts."
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Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator who calls Grand Rapids, Michigan, home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him. In between showing his art from coast to coast or working with an assortment of clients, Pat travels as much as possible. Although he is happy to be able to speak and have an audience through his artwork, he does his best everyday to listen and learn from the world he lives in.
What is your spirit animal?
"I'm quite confident that my spirit animal is a German Shorthaired Pointer."
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Peter Bognanni’s first novel, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam 2010) won the L.A. Times Book Award for First Fiction. His short fiction, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in The New York Times Book Blog, The Huffington Post, Largehearted Boy, Five Chapters, Gulf Coast, The Bellingham Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He lives in St. Paul, where he is attempting to grow a midget watermelon.
If you were on a TV crime drama (cop, lab guy, coroner, informant, etc...) what character stereotype would you be, and would you have a catch phrase?
"I would be the psychic that the cops visit when they're at their most desperate. I would, of course, be a fraud, but something about what I say would help them solve the crime. This is essentially what writers do."
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Robert James Algeo is a Pennsylvania native cartoonist, web developer, and educator currently living and working in Minneapolis. Many consider his work to be second only to R. Crumb’s in the field of cartoonists named Robert who were also born in Philadelphia. His work can be found at inabsentiapress.com.
What do you think the end of LOST means?
"Not to make this question all about me, but to mind mind the ending of Lost can only mean one thing: Vindication. I called it back on May 25th, 2005 that the show's ending would suck and then spent the better part of my 20's as the greatest pariah in my peer group for saying so and abandoning the show. Turns out I was totally right."
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Sarah Sitkin was born in 1983 in Los Angeles. What the hell else do you need to know?
What's the weirdest job you've ever had?
"I've only had one job. And that is working at Kit Kraft Inc, in studio city, my family's business. A hobby shop."
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Steve Healey is the author of two books of poetry, Earthling and 10 Mississippi, both published by Coffee House Press.
What are your feelings on platypuses? How about the plural form of platypus?
"The platypus does not exist and has never existed."
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Tara Abrahams
Tara Abrahams is currently studying English and history at the University of Toronto. She hopes to work in a museum one day, where she will be surrounded by old and dead things all day long.
If you could only listen to one album for the rest of forever, what would it be and why?
"Undoubtedly, Of Monsters and Men's debut album, My Head Is an Animal. Why? Well, because these lovely people sing about fantastical animals and heartbreak, two of my most favourite things in the world. Also, every song looks pretty in my head. "
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Teagan White is a freelance designer and illustrator from Chicago. Throughout her personal and professional projects, she attempts to blur the boundaries between design, illustration, and fine art, aiming for a depth of meaning and quality of execution that can arise independently from the work's application. Her clients have included Target, Nike, The NFL, Coca-Cola, Anthropologie, WIRED Magazine, and a wide range of small businesses, fashion companies, and independent record labels. She is also a member of the Keystone Design Union.
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Thereza Rowe is a London-based illustrator and graphic designer. Born in Brazil and adopted by the UK, she holds both nationalities and equally embraces her two cultural backgrounds. She drinks tons of pink milk, eats huge amounts of nutella and she likes drawing…a lot. Her favorite tools are color, shape, and imagination.
Sega, Nintendo, or PlayStation?
"None I'm afraid... I don't play video games."
Zé Otavio
Zé knows a way to swim all the way downtown + he's an illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.