Laura Laine

   Laura Laine was born in 1983 in Finland. She is a Helsinki based fashion illustrator working. Once Laura had finished her studies on fashion design at the university of art and design in Helsinki with an interest mainly of fashion illustration. After graduating from the University of Art and Design Helsinki she went on to teach fashion illustration at the campus and works freelance in her spare time. From the very beginning of her career she knew she wasn't keen on designing rather more interested in illustrating the designs for portfolios and only after the first course of fashion illustration she'd felt she had found the perfect field for expressing herself. A little while after, realising she was able to make a living illustrating. Mostly being inspired by fashion, literature and art via browsing through magazines and attending fashion shows in such countries as Italy. Mostly working with photographer Nicolas Clerc for Muse magazine, it had inspired Laine to invent more colourful designs. More recently she has been working for the New York Times Magazine, Vogue Nippon, GAP, Muse magazine and many other big named clients.
    Her signature in fashion illustration are beautifully rendered, wind-swept hair- , tall, slender figures found within the drawings of Helsinki- based fashion illustrator Laura Laine. It was quite a unique illustration that she created because at some points it's creepy but highly aesthetic when understand it.  How she start drawing is with a mood or a shape or an idea of a colour, she sometimes get the idea
from what she see around her, photographs, paintings, or clothing. The whole image just evolves on its own from there. She said she doesn't really sketch unless the client requires a sketch. She feel that the end result is the best when  she doesn't think or analyze too much. So that are the organic process and the result can have an element of surprise in it!

Kelly Thompson

  Kelly Thompson was born in California and lived in New Zealand. Her distinctive seductive illustrations and penchant for beautiful girls have caught the eye of the art and fashion community and launched her career internationally, and she is now one of New Zealand's most popular and most recognised illustrators.
  A nomadic life informs Kelly Thompson's experience as an artist, academic and researcher. Her interests are in exploring notions of location and identity, travel and material culture read through personal experiences and postcolonial discourses. She explore the role of textile as signifiers and the intersections of age-old and 21st technologies to produce new cloth experiences, embedded with narrative content.
  Kelly Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of stuudio arts/ fibers and material practices, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Previously she was head of the BA textile program, at Goldsmiths, University of London for four years, and before that at the Otago School of art, New Zealand. She has a BFA from the California College of arts and crafts 1985, and a MA (visual arts) 1994, from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University.
  Beside fashion illustration, Kelly is a also a photographer and art director, with a creative eye and attention to detail that ensures her vision is realised without compromise. All of her illustrations are very alive and we can see from it how she is so concern about the detail in every images that she created.
   Kelly's clients include Penguin Books, Covergirl, Nintendo, New Zealand Opera, Nike, Mimco, Westpac, Grey Paris and Telecom New Zealand, and she has spoken at the Semi permanent conferences in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane along with hosting Masterclass for Nintendo