Celebrating Creativity

View set on Kuvva.comDennis de Groot (Waalwijk, 1982) is an illustrator whose distinctive style is characterized by reducing subjects to simple forms and colors. Strongly influenced by contemporary pop culture, his work aims to explore the line between recognition and detail. In 2011 he published his first book “Bare Essentials”, a collection of pop culture illustrations, with Lebowski Publishers. Most recently, he collaborated with apparel brand Lacoste on two exclusive shirts for their Fall/Winter 2013-14 Kids collection. Dennis resides in Amsterdam with his wife Sherisa, son Seiji and their cat Pixel.

View set on Kuvva.comEssy May is a science fantasy artist and print designer based in London. Her digitally coloured graphite drawings are steeped in nostalgia and dreaminess, throwbacks to the days of classic sci-fi. Essy has worked on album covers, event posters and print designs for Japanese fashion labels. She has had her prints exhibited in galleries worldwide and sells her work privately.

View set on Kuvva.comMarina Esmeraldo is a designer and illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain. Her work is informed by her studies in architecture and graphic design, her passion for patterns, bold shapes and color, and her tropical upbringing in the northeast of Brazil. Esmeraldo has worked for clients like Turner Classic Movies, ELISAVA and the Mayor of Barcelona, and exhibited work at the Catalan pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. She is also co-founder of Stree2lab and En Públic. Esmeraldo experiments weekly with illustration at Pattern Portraits.

View set on Kuvva.comFreshco (a.k.a. Friso Blankevoort) grew up in Haarlem, The Netherlands. As far as he can remember he has always been drawing. Skateboarding culture has had a significant impact on his artistry, being inspired by the graffiti he saw around him when he first started skateboarding as a teenager in Amsterdam. Freshco studies at the Willem the Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

View set on Kuvva.comKeith Negley is a freelance conceptual illustrator originally from a small town in Wisconsin, now living in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA in Illustration in 2000 and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since. His work has been recognised by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and Communication Arts, and his regular clients include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.

View set on Kuvva.com Gallery 33 is Kuvva’s offline counterpart, a creative space in Amsterdam located at the cultural hub of the Westergasfabriek. Focusing on illustration, Gallery 33 is dedicated to bring interactive shows that are accessible and full of innovation. For their current show, Feathers – a show about dinosaurs, the gallery invited 24 artists from all over the world and asked them to revisit their childhood and create all new work based on these majestic creatures that once ruled the earth.

Artists like Andrew Lyons, Jon Burgerman, Laszlito Kovacs, Saša Ostoja, Hanna K., Jake Parker and more created very diverse pieces. Techniques used range from watercolour to digital illustration and from dip pen with indian ink to riso prints.

Please save the date to join us at the public show opening of our new show, Feathers, on October 25, 17:30h - 22:00h.

Pretty much every kid in the world goes through a "dinosaur phase". As anyone who knows us well can attest, we never outgrew ours. That's why we asked 24 artists to revisit their childhood and create all new work based on these majestic creatures that once ruled the earth.

View set on Kuvva.comKim Demåne is a digital designer and artist originally hailing from Sweden. He is currently based in Amsterdam. His illustrative work is a mix of con­tempo­rary costumes and animals inspired by fairytales and aesthetics from early industrialism. He combines hints of comic impression and historical references with a touch of humor. His clients include adidas origi­nals, VICE, TEDGlobal. Together with Greg Solenström his art is part of a large inter­active installation now exhibited at art’otel Amsterdam.

View set on Kuvva.comTilman is an interaction and graphic designer based in Nuremberg, Germany. After years of agency work he took a year off to stay at home and look after his two little kids. During that time he realised he wanted to flex his design muscles and dive into his favourite field: geometry and minimalism. On January 1, 2012 he started to create one minimal geometric composition each and every day. A year later 366 graphics, 18.000 followed and a decent fan base had amassed. The set on Kuvva shows a small selection of this specific body of work, which is still growing.

View set on Kuvva.comOwen Weber is an Emmy-nominated photo­grapher and producer. Born outside of Detroit, MI, he currently lives in Chicago where he produces, directs, and shoots television commercials and short films. While he frequently travels the world in search of new and beautiful vistas, the set here on Kuvva focuses on his favorite place on earth to shoot landscapes- the northern region of his home state of Michigan.

View set on Kuvva.comClaire Droppert is a 36-year old graphic designer / photographer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has developed her skills as a photographer along with her graphic design abilities. Claire is inspired by the line where simplicity and minimalism are wed, and the new editing techniques that can blur this line. Claire Droppert has a strong preference for landscapes, and desolate / open spaces. There is a distinctive silence to be found in Claire’s work. She is a well known Instagram user as well. Her style there continues in images taken and edited with iPhone only.

View set on Kuvva.comFlorian Meacci is a French illustrator based in London. He holds a degree in graphic design. Meacci has worked for a variety of clients like Dolce&Gabbana, Swide, A Magazine Curated By, Kurt Geiger and Popshot Magazine. If he had his way, he’d just draw with biro and read comic books the rest of his life.

View set on Kuvva.comFaunesque, a.k.a. Phil Constantinesco (b. 1982), is from a small town on the Eastern marches of France. He studied in Strasbourg and has a degree in Visual Communication. He founded studio Zurich29, briefly worked for MTV in Paris and soon afterwards decided to pursue his career as a freelance motion designer.

View set on Kuvva.comGabriel Tanner is a designer and photo­grapher originally from Curitiba, Brazil. He has a pro­fessio­nal background in advertising, and is finishing a degree in design at the Federal Techno­logicial University of Paraná where he specializes in product development. His appreciation of minimalist style, nature and urbanism are themes that he usually comes back to in his work. The set featured on Kuvva was shot in the dramatic mountain scenery of South Brazil.

View set on Kuvva.comPaul Derisdan is a graphic designer living in Bucharest, Romania. After working for several advertising agencies Derisdan founded his own advertising and graphic design studio, Blau. His work combines analogue and digital design techniques. The set featured here on Kuvva is part of a bigger body of work that includes 64 portraits of diamond traders.

View set on Kuvva.comJason Cheng is the team leader of the Hong Kong based Toyish Project, a small boutique design group. Cheng has a background in architecture, but is also keen on doing illustration work as well as fashion design. He’s a big fan of chocolate and coffee. The work of the multi­disciplinary team at Toyish Project ranges from product design to illustration and graphics.