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Born in Vienna. After graduating from a textile art school in Vienna, she worked as a graphic designer and art director for a design company and an advertising agency. She moved to New York in 1994, and after working as a design director, she started to focus on illustration. Since 1997, she has been active as an illustrator. Her work done for the cover of New York Times Style Selection in 1997 was awarded a silver prize in the category of Society of Newspaper Design, as well as a Distinctive Merit Award. Appreciation of her award-winning carrier includes Award of Excellence by Communication Arts in 2000 and 2001. She was featured in Fashion Illustration Now (published by Thames & Hudson) as well as in the Sept/Oct issue of Communication Arts in 2001. In 2004, Pucci Mannequin started to sell mannequin characters design by Anja. She lives in Soho of New York City, with her husband and two cute daughters. Her lifestyle has been featured in American magazines. She was selected as one of the mature and sexy sophisticated women in NYC, for the April 25 issue of a Japanese magazine Croissant.

Allure / Annabelle / Casa BRUTUS / Cosmopolitan / Domani / ELLE (German / Japon / UK / US) / Femme / FRaU / Food & Wine / German Glamour / Golay / US & Japan Harper’s Bazaar / Madame Figaro / LA magazine / Mademoiselle / Marie Claire (German / UK / US) / Modern LIVING / Success / The New Yorker / The New York Times Magazine / Travel & Leisure / Wallpaper / Wallstreet Journal / W / US & Nippon Vogue / Ann Taylor / Bal Harbour / Beldona / Bergdorf Goodman / British Airways / Celine / Chicago Tribune / Colette Malouf / Costa / Coty / ECOHOES / Ellen Tracy / Estee Lauder / Feixenet / Harvey Nicolas / Ginza Matsuya / HONDA / Isetan / Le Printemps / LOREAL / Mattel / Mitsubishi Estate / Monoprix Department Store / Motorola / New York City Opera、Newman Marcus, NWS / NYCE / Oh My Dog! / OLD NAVY / Parliament / Pier Antonio Gaspari / Polygram / Prima Lenea / Litzenhoff Crystal / Seagram’s / SEIKO / Shiseido / Simone & Schuster / Seiko / Tiffany & Co. Japan / VP Bank / Vue Sur La Ville / Waitrose / Wonderbra France / Yahoo / Chuokoron Shinsha / Landmark Plaza / Mitsukoshi

Born in France. After having worked as a stylist; Izak started his career as a fashion illustrator in 1992. His artwork contribution includes French ‘Elle’; ‘Figaro’; ‘American Vogue’; as well as catalogues for Chanel’s perfume ‘Allure’. Now he lives in New York and his recent works involve campaign visuals of fashion specialty stores of three big cities in the world; HENRI BENDEL of New York; FRANK ET FILS of Paris ; and Le Printemps of Tokyo. His fashion catalogue for ‘Spick & Span’ 2000 Fall/Winter Collection in Tokyo received a Distinctive Merit Award of New York Art Directors’ Club in 2000. His successful exhibitions in Tokyo attract a wide range of fans.

Elle / Elle Japon / Madame Figaro / Figaro Magazine / American Vogue / Vogue Spoza / Avantages / Depeche Mode / New Yorker / Bride / Marie Claire / Fidgit Magazine
Lancome / Chanel / Celine / Naf Naf / Galeries Lafayette / Haagen Dasz / Henri Bendel / Printemps GINZA / Bon Marche / SAKS Fifth Avenue / Modes et travaux / Air France / French Government Tourism Office / Perrier / Saint Gobain / Biotherm / Franck et Fils / Colette Malouf / Spick & Span / Tostem / Wella

Leah Singer’s work spans many visual disciplines from printed matter to film. An interest in artist books led her to self publish copy (1997), a graphics only newspaper featuring silhouette designs. It is an ongoing project and is included in the artist book collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Nike invited her to create a runners map leading up to the 2001 New York City marathon based on her newspaper publications. It went on to receive merit awards from The One Show and the Art Directors Club in New York as well as a Silver nomination from the D&AD in Britain.

Her live manipulated film performances have taken her around the world where she performs along with musicians including her husband Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth.
Her film and artwork have been featured at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, PS 1 in New York and Colette in Paris.
In Japan she created the product launch for tasse tasse at Marui Dept. Stores in Tokyo and the Christmas 2001 campaign for Matsuya Ginza.

Bloomberg / Oprah / PaperSky / Flaunt / Tokionn

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You am I / Sonic Youth / Elliott Sharp / Lee Ranaldo / Band of Susan’s / David Soldier / Men Without Hats

Marie Claire / Forthe and Towne (GAP) / Takashimaya / Sigerson Morrison / NIKE / Barneys New York / The New York Times / Marui / Matsuya Ginza / Coca Cola

Michael Sanderson, just 21 years old, was born in Colorado USA to a naturally creative family. His mother, heavily interested in interior design and any & all magazines, and his father, an painter,graphic designer & video editor. Michael Sanderson has been drawing since the age of two and was first introduced to photoshop at the age of four. He briefly attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he majored in fashion design but dropped out to pursue a career in Illustration , where he has worked with clients like the NY based boutique Big Drop NYC, NY based designer Joomi Lim, Victoria’s Secret, and now Casa Brutus. He is currently in the planning stages of opening a Branding /Advertising & design consulting firm, where he hopes to specialize in the Fashion market all whilst maintain his illustration career and develop a future fashion line ( CEDER CEDER) which merges classic English prep with modern NYC art culture, much like his illustration work.

BIG DROP NYC (NY) / KELLHER candle CO. / FLORENCE UDSON

Akari Inoguchi is a graphic designer and visual artist working in a diverse range of media. She contributes illustrations to fashion magazines, television commercials, product packages and labels, t-shirts, and textile designs. Akari also produces paintings, drawings, digital prints, and murals, and has participated in numerous shows in the U.S. and Japan.

Vogue, Brutus, ELLE Girl, Trace, Elite Traveller, Mavi, Diesel, Aussie Hair care, Lippe Taylor, Boscov, Guayaki, And A, Shamash and Sons Corp., Freddy & Ma. WWD