| Barbara Pollak | barbara@happypix.com | Bio | Barbara Pollak is San Francisco based illustrator, author and painter who lives with an assortment of children, animals and fish.
Her clients have included: Girl's Life, Time For Kids, Scholastic, Lerner, Penguin Putnam, Rigby, Rodale Press, Random House, Harcourt Brace and many others. She has also created interactive cards, posters, games and textbook illustrations for children and teen markets. Pollak authored and illustrated a picture book about gardening, community and food called 'Our Community Garden' published by Beyond Words Publishing in 2004.
In 2011, Pollak and her husband co-founded Hard Boiled Industries, a new company which specializes in ipad/iphone/kindle and android based Apps for children.
In her free time she enjoys traveling, painting and collecting all things Japanese. |
| CA Nobens | canobens@uscorp.net | Bio | CA Nobens has 35 years of professional experience in illustration and graphic design of an extensive variety of products for infant through whimsical adult markets. Her skills include smart, engaging ideas and illustration. She works in Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as watercolors. Cheryl's specialties include bright, fun art for books, games, editorial, product design and advertising involving kids, families and animals; educational line and color; 3-dimensional product design. She is also a published author with an original and amusing writing voice. |
| Carol Yoshizumi | zumi@earthlink.net | Bio | Carol Yoshizumi has a sweet, joyful style that appeals to family, children and tween markets. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, greeting cards and other print materials by clients such as American Girl, Peaceable Kingdom Press, Hallmark, and Disney. |
| Lee Calderon | lee@leecalderon.com | Bio | Having first studied architecture, then graphic design, Lee has synthesized both disciplines to create a fresh, artful style that is fun, colorful, modern, stylized, charming, and playful, appealing to both today's children and adult markets. He has created art for various folks ranging from book publishers to magazines to game & toy manufacturers to ad agencies and design firms, not to mention a huge interior wall project for the Loveland Library that he was recently awarded. Lee's art is also available for licensing on products and any other surface that doesn't mind getting attention.
Look for Lee and his work in the 'Artist Spotlight' of the upcoming September issue of LAYERS Magazine.
Lee creates his art from his home-based studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he lives and plays with his wife, three kids and beagle, Lucy. |
| Nancy Meyers | info@nancymeyersdesign.com | Bio | Nancy Meyers creates illustrations for publishing, corporate and editorial markets. Clients include Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Free Spirit Publishing, Michael O'Mara Books, Mondo Publishing, Voyager Expanded Learning, Helbling, Crown Ironworks, Mallinckrodt, The Nielsen Company, The American Journal of Nursing and The Minnesota Historical Society. Member of Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators and the Children's Literature Network. |
