Beci Orpin is an artist/designer based in Melbourne, Australia. She is well known for her whimsical, intricate creations and feminine dreamscapes. After graduating from BA textile design at RMIT in 1997, Beci went on to work freelance, designing textiles and graphics for a wide range of clients including Burton Snowboards, Built by Wendy, Bloom Cosmetics, Time Warner and Dark Horse comics.

Beci also runs women's clothing and accessories line called Princess Tina. Princess Tina started in 2001 and is currently sold in over 50 boutiques around the world.

Beci also frequently creates and exhibits artwork in many different mediums. She has been involved in over 25 shows in galleries in Australia, UK, Japan, Spain and US.

Beci's work is influenced by many things, that change all the time, but re-occurring themes include nature, childhood memories, wooden toys, found objects, folk art, darkness and the unexpected.

www.beciorpin.com

Buff Monster’s could be best described as a high speed collision of porn, heavy metal and ice cream. The aftermath? A world of squirting breasts, clouds and vaginas daubed in a heavy dose of electric pink.

Starting out ten years ago posting silk-screen prints in L.A, Buff has moved on to creating boob-and-ice-cream inspired toys and recently produced a squirting pink boob fountain. Former clients include global brands such as Nike, Vans, Hurley, and Hustler.

www.buffmonster.com

Are Kleivan is a graphic artist, broadcast designer and illustrator, born and raised in 1970s Kolbotn, Norway. He ran his own studio, The Are Kleivan Institute of Graphic Arts, until he joined as partner and senior designer at SKIN Design Studio in April 2007. SKIN Design Studio is a six-person strong studio located in Oslo, Norway, and works mainly for cultural related stuff such as book publishers, the music industry, television and film. Are Kleivan hates small type, straight lines and square angles. He doesn’t believe in truth but is very interested in very interesting things. And he really enjoys making posters!

Some new work: www.skin.no
Older stuff: www.kleivan.net

A Melbourne based artist and musician, Dylan Martorell has been exhibiting and performing for over ten years as both a solo artist and as part of his bands Snawklor and the Hi God People.

In all its forms, Martorell’s work is clearly influenced by the natural world, the elements, geographical oddities, human rituals, mythology and most importantly music and sound from field recordings to large ritualised performances. His works seem to inhabit a world that could best be described as fourth world psych-exotica, a highly disciplined style of detail and improvisation coupled with a magpie junkyard aesthetic, clearly influenced by his travels in North Africa, South East Asia, Japan and Mexico.

www.hiddenarchive.com

Emil Kozak is from a small town in Denmark, and was inspired to take on graphic design as a result of his life long passion for skateboarding.

He began to develop his skills at an early age, inspired by skateboard-art, and the result today is a unique artist with brilliant ideas. His style is fresh and positive, but often with a deeper message. He is a master of composition and has an eye for detail that is not often seen. Emil Kozak`s artwork is often described as typographic, with clean lines and few colours, yet there is always an unexpected surprise; obscure references, playing with words, codes and clues.

As a result his work has been exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and has appeared in numerous magazines and websites. He has produced design and artwork for clients such as Instant Winner, Graniph, Ykiki, ELEMENT, Monsieur T, Blah Apparel, LAB, Streetmachine, VANS, Eastpak, Philip Braunstein, D:A:D, Planet Earth, Hulger and Norse.

www.emilkozak.com

Jeremyville is an artist, product designer, animator and human. He wrote and produced the first book in the world on designer toys called Vinyl Will Kill, published by IdN, interviewing peole like Fafi, Sarah from Colette, Tim Tsui, Jason Siu, Kinsey and Kozik.

He has a new book out called 'Jeremyville Sessions', with collaborations with Geoff McFetridge, Miss Van, Devilrobots, STRANGEco, Lego, Converse, MTV and Adidas. His art has been published in design books by IdN, Die Gestalten Verlag, All Rights Reserved, Victionary, Kidrobot, Faesthetic, Taschen and Pictoplasma. He has worked with Converse, MTV Italy, Tiger Translate, Swindle Magazine, Kidrobot, Trexi, Toy2R, Colette, Refill7, and new snowboard deigns for Rossignol coming out in 2008, and a design for Converse US also dropping in 2008. 3 shows are planned for the remainder of 2007, 1 in Paris, and 2 in New York.

Jeremyville splits his time between studios in Sydney Australia and New York City. He collects rare t-shirts, sneakers, toys and denim. And he's also had Fafi over to his house for dinner this year, oooh la la!

www.jeremyville.com

Merda’s distinctive autograffy is inscribed through precise demarcations, utilising harsh organics imagined by mathematics and rendered through abstracted and premeditated calligraphy. Defying simplistic limitations, Merda prefers to work within a complex framework that enhances the visual impact of the graffiti genre.

Commercially, Merda represents the finest elements of pop-culture in combination with musical, fashion, and architectural trimmings. His communicative wares range from paint, print, and product to animation and graphic design. He incorporates an array of influences from futuristic sci-fi, international anima and historical and contemporary typographies. His work draws from the optical works of artists such as Frank Stella and Bridget Riley, tessellating complex and precise text-like imagery into a labyrinthine form.

Merda has exhibited extensively since 1987. Launching his self-named company in 1997, he has designed for companies including Renegade Clothing, PSY-Harmonics, Globe International, Hardware Records, Kraft, Vegemite, Hertz and Absolut Vodka.

www.imerda.com

With one foot in the snakepit, Tristan Ceddia slides in style, roaming the remote recesses of the planet searching tirelessly for the finest silks and spices, guided by the inspirational voices of hyphy legends The Pack and E40.

When not doing the above, or hanging out the car, “going dumb” he manages to produce tight graphics for The Serpents, Mambo and Schwipe amongst others. He has done so for around the past 4 years and still isn’t tired! Luckily he accesses the internet on his laptop, which he carries with him at all times, just in case something comes up.

He likes to think that his work, like the ancient symbol Ouroboros represents cyclicality or infinity.

Phrases that have been used to describe him include 'epic super legend' and 'quite a nice guy'.

nevernow.com.au/

My style is a reflection of boredom. My work represents things that would make me laugh or smile.

I dropped out of art school to work. I am an American with Italian, Irish, Spanish, Jamaican and English blood. I won best cartoonist award in San Francisco in 2005 and countless insults from strangers.

Clients include my wife, Masa Tsuyuki, Britney Spears, Martha Stewart, Coca-Cola, Johnny Depp, Yoko Ono, Dr. Dre, Levis, The White Stripes, Kanye West, Dracula Pizza Shop, Victoria Beckham and Crownfarmer. I have been in a few art shows, and published in a few magazines and books. I did an interview once I think.

I have never met an Australian that I didn't get along with. I believe I should move to Australia, so if anyone needs someone to empty their trash cans, or sweep up or stuff, I am your man.

Love
Porous

www.owltooth.com

Rinzen is best known for the collaborative approach of its members, forming as a result of their visual and audio remix project, RMX. Extending the concept for their 2001 book, the group invited over 30 international participants to sequentially rework digital art, in what has now become a common method of collaboration amongst graphic designers and illustrators.

Rinzen's work, created both individually and as a collective, covers a wide-range of styles and techniques, often featuring utopian alternate realities, bold, geometric designs or intricate, hand drawn studies.

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. They recently designed the inaugural issue of Paul Pope's Batman for DC Comics and graphics for a bicycle released by Japanese company Bebike.

The five members of the group are currently based in Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne and New York.

www.rinzen.com

Drawer.
Born in 79.
Living in Hamburg.
The first and the last thing in my day is drawing.
I try to describe my world, my thoughts, my views on the real world with my drawings and paintings.
I love to work on the streets, and publish my work unasked in my environment.
I learned this way of working during my time as a graffiti writer. I learnt the way to see things differently in the time with my skateboard.
I love to publish small zines with my works and thoughts. This comes around with my love for sketchbooks, and all things in books.
I run a small Label called THE LOUSY LIVINCOMPANY. Under this name I do my favourite tshirt designs and produce them in small editions, so my friends can wear them too.

Stefan has exhibited in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Zürich & Hamburg.

www.livincompany.de

Yokoland is a graphic design and illustration studio that was started by Espen Friberg and Aslak Gurholt Rønsen sometime between their graduation from High School (2000) and their graduation from The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (2004/2005). In the beginning there was no intention that Yokoland would be a graphic design studio (it sort of happened along the way). Today designer Thomas Tengesdal Nordby also work as part of Yokoland on various projects.

Yokoland mainly focuses on print-based projects like books, magazines, posters, record covers, cd- and dvd-covers. The studio also works across various media, creating anything from signage, set design, wall paintings and exhibition design to short films, music videos, title sequences and websites. Yokoland also works with more commercial work like company identities and advertising. From time to time Yokoland has their own exhibitions and participates in group exhibitions.

Yokoland is based in Oslo (Norway). A monograph about the studio, "Yokoland - As we go up we go down", was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2006.

Leo Volland aka BOE, is one of six members of the Via Grafik art and design collective based in Wiesbaden, Germany which was founded in 1998 as a crew of graffiti and street artists. Leo’s special fields are logo and corporate design, illustration and graffiti. Since 2002 when Leo and his partner André decided to offer professional design services under the moniker of Via Grafik, the studio has received worldwide recognition for its incisive style and the great diversity of their work. Via Grafik have been invited to take part in a large number of exhibitions and publications and have been commissioned for global brands like Nike, Nintendo, Adidas and Volkswagen as well as smaller companies based in their area.

www.vgrfk.com

Wemoto is the little baby of Gregor Garkisch, Patrick Lotz and Stefan Golz. We founded the Label in the Year 2003 in order to have a starting point to fulfil our dreams and passion to work creatively on our own brand. We are all heavily involved in skateboarding and enjoy music, movies, nightlife and of course good designs.

There are no claims or any big philosophies behind Wemoto. We just want to make fresh clothes the good guys like to wear.

Wemoto is interested in bringing a little bit more fun into the street wear scene. People should mellow and not take everything so seriously. We are not into doing the next Louis Vuitton pattern or sampling another Biggie Smalls face on our shirts. We try to make some funny stuff which is still cool, and do graphics people can relate to.

And we love to be a part of lifelounge 22 Flavours.

That’s it.

www.wemoto.de