Artists
The following artists have inspired both the art I create and the way I see the world. The separation of artists and designers is strictly to provide some division, design is art and thus designers are artists.
Artists
Walter Behrnes - 3d modeler, animator, drawing, painting
Jeff Cook - handcrafted art from exotic woods overlaid with patterns from cellular automata
Benjamin Haehn - oil painting and screen printing
Aaron Halifax - 3d artist
Nicole Haney - painting and mixed media
Natsumi Hayashi - Tokyo photographer known for daily levitating
Colin Hess - video editing and effects genius
Helen Lovelee - extraordinary screen printer
Andy Lyon - visual artist
Zack McGill - narrative digital artist
Nathaniel Murray - collage and avant garde multimedia artist
Carmen Navis - set design, photography, silkscreens
Charmaine Olivia - amazing self-taught portrait artist from San Francisco
Cecilia Phillips - oil paintings
Andrew Ranville - installations, sculpture, woodwork, photography, video
Dave Schwan - amazing drawings and digital art
Jeff Sierputowski - photography
Tina Bell Vance - digital artist
Designers
Jessi Arrington - brooklyn designer fond of color
Jina Bolton - san francisco designer and developer
Shaun Inman - designer, developer, and layer tennis champion
Cameron Moll - designer and typographic artist, founder of Authentic Jobs
Jason Santa Maria - brookyn designer, aiga vp, and has a part in A Book Apart and A List Apart
Jeffrey Zeldman - publishes A List Apart, one of the first web designers to blog about design and web standards
