NEW JERSEY / MAAYAN PEARL

Maayan Pearl is a multidisciplinary designer at Bloomberg Businessweek and avid animal petter living and working in New York.

KANSAS / LUKE BOTT

Luke Bott is a talented designer and illustrator living in Wichita, Kansas. Check out more of Luke's work at lukebott.com

KENTUCKY / NATE UTESCH

Nate Utesch is one busy guy. He curates an illustration and short fiction journal called Ferocious Quarterly, writes and performs in the band Metavari and is an art director at the Midwest design and ad firm, One Lucky Guitar, Inc. Everyone should take a minute to check out a Kickstarter project he just launched for Ferocious Quarterly.

DELAWARE / KEN BARBER

Ken Barber is a letterer and type designer at House Industries. He also runs Type and Lettering, where you can check out the process behind his contribution.

SOUTH DAKOTA / AARON ANDERSON

Aaron Anderson, our South Dakota rep, is an artist working with Eric Carlson under the collective moniker Heartland / Hardland. They have a varied and impressive body of work which can bee seen HERE.

SOUTH CAROLINA / FUZZCO

Fuzzco is a web design and graphic design studio in Charleston, South Carolina, founded by Josh Nissenboim and Helen Rice. They do fantastic work, and recently, celebrated some bad work too.

You can see the process that went into their piece on their blog.

Take a look at the rest of their portfolio and make sure to check out the beautiful old house they converted to a live/work space. So cool. 

OHIO / MIKEY BURTON

An Ohio native, Mikey Burton proudly describes his design aesthetic as “Midwesterny” and draws much of his inspiration from artifacts found throughout the hardworking, blue collar Rust Belt: old type-specimen sheets, arcane equipment manuals and ancient textbooks. See more of his work HERE.

Fun Fact: Ohio is the only state to have a pennant-shaped flag. Well played, Mikey. Well Played.

MAINE / JOSH BRILL

Portland, Maine-based designer and artist, Josh Brill, creates limited edition art prints and design products under the label Lumadessa.  

ALABAMA / MATT LANE HARRIS

Birmingham Alabama's Matt Lane Harris is a hard man to track down. I scoured the internet and even tried calling him at his day job. As it turns out, it was totally worth the effort. Check out Matt's other work HERE.

OKLAHOMA / TY WILKINS

Ty Wilkins is an freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Tulsa, Oklahoma.