Joshua Davis (born 1971-06-13) is an American artist, designer, and technologist producing public and private works for companies, collectors, and institutions. Davis pioneered an original method of computational, generative-art known as Dynamic Abstraction: using a single set of illustrated designs, his rules-based algorithms assemble his illustrations into randomized compositions. In everyday terms, his art results in an unpredictability that seeks to discover the beautiful accident.

Joshua was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category "Net Excellence", the highest honor in international digital art and design. He also exhibits his work at new-media galleries such as Amsterdam’s Maxalot and Brooklyn’s Espies, and at major institutions like the Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt. Davis recently created an exhibition, Accidental Assistant, for the Rovereto music and arts festival outside Milan, Italy.

2007 saw the rise of Joshua Davis as a force in home product and apparel design. Collaborating with Toronto-based, home-furnishings maker, Umbra, and apparel and stationary maker, Miquelrius, Davis’ collections are available at contemporary museum stores, such as the MoMA Store and now widely through Target.

Lana Crooks spent her formative years in South Florida before attending Savannah College of Art and Design where she earned herself a BFA in Illustration at twenty-two. One day, on a whim, she made an expedition to Chicago and made it her home, trading the ocean for a giant lake. She is now the captain of Crookedart LLC, a company based around freelance illustration, costume and set design for film, TV and retail window displays.

Plush became Lana's main focus in 2007 with her Octoplush series; a series based on her love of cephalopods. Her plushes are called “soft sculptures” and usually hang on the wall as art pieces. They are all lovingly hand-made and one-of-a-kind. Her work has been seen at Get Knifed Gallery, A.Okay Official, DVA, Rotofugi, and Gallery 1988 to name a few.

Eugene Good is a Milwaukee based artist, by way of Colorado and Chicago. A graphic designer by trade and artist by choice, he uses a multitude of mediums and canvases. While graphic design has taught him a sense of structure and balance, his art comes through depicting images of a messy mind. Deconstructing boundaries of daily stimulus and visual overload, reconstructing idiosyncratic chaos. He doesn't want the world; he just wants to wear hats.

Potts began drawing at a young age when his father brought home a drawing table and a "Learn How to Draw Cartoons" book. His early and most important influences were seeing his father's drawings, Saturday morning cartoons, video games, plush animals, comic books, t-shirts, toys, and skateboarding.

His paintings are strongly based upon characters that he creates from observation of everyday social and personal occurrences. As an observer, he concerns himself with the internal uncertainties, apathies, and underlying thoughts and emotions of himself and others in daily life. His palette is bright, friendly, and childish-yet his characters are bold, and highly detailed.

Raised on the North Side of Chicago, Won, (aka Revise CMW) got hip to graffiti because of his 8th grade locker partner,“Deso”. From him, Revise learned tags, bubble letters, characters and everything that was associated with graffiti. This appreciation and envy for his work grew into Revise’s own quest to do graffiti any way, any how. 13 years later, he’s still learning how to use a can and recently, finally came up with a decent tag. Revise CMW still resides in the city where he works, paints, draws and comments on everything

TEWZ began his public art career as a graffiti writer in the early 90’s. During his journeys, he began taking photos of the places he painted: along rooftops, underneath bridges, inside abandoned buildings and freight yards. He is widely known for rescuing the free plastic newspaper boxes commonly found on sidewalks at busy intersections, physically transforming them and returning them to the street with fellow Chicago artist IKIL in a project dubbed “Monster Box”. TEWZ currently studies visual communications and printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a recipient of the Presidential Merit Scholarship.

Will Chambers’ (aka Artillery) creativity is drawn from the aggressive energy of the drum & bass, club step, and metal constantly pouring through his headphones. Armed with some stolen X-acto blades, almost every color of Montana spray paint, and his wry sense of humor, he has created an arsenal of hand-cut stencil designs featured across Chicago’s streets and galleries. With bright candy coated colors and an almost Warhol-esque twist on banal imagery, his pieces seek to force you to take notice. At the moment, he spends his time giving an outlet to up-and-coming artists by curating street art shows in Chicago’s eclectic Wicker Park neighborhood, and cutting stencils for upcoming projects.

Andrew Thompson (aka Flip) grew up on comic books, cartoons, and adheres to a strict diet of metal and meat. Shortly after graduating college with his BFA in Visual Communications/Graphic Design, he again became consumed by drawing and art, but with fresh new eyes, pulling inspiration from his education as a designer, as well as his urban environment to forge the artist that he is today. Skulls, zombie businessmen rushing to who knows where, flying land masses and sinking ships are all but a few of the images and stories you will see from Flip.

What motivates any artist? The dream of taking over the world. Through stickers, t-shirts, prints, posters and any other medium he can get his hands on, that’s just what Aaron Alabarran (aka Toxik) hopes to do. Thriving on the inspiration running wild in our society today, his goal is to reach the world with his message.

Scott Shellhamer (aka Yunicorn) is a recluse by hobby and a professional illustrator/animator/designer by trade. Sometimes he needs a hug, always he likes a hug. He has two cats, he’s been in a bunch of bands—someone once got his bands logo tattooed on their neck. He currently plays guitar and makes inhuman noises in a metal band called American Heritage. They play love songs. Someone else wrote this bio about Yunicorn.

Charlie is a recent Chicago transplant arriving from his hometown of Atlanta. His work features a mixed media collage style, utilizing wheat paste cut outs, stencils, calligraphy, spray paint and a variety of inks. He flourishes and sets himself apart from the pack by combining his love of illustration and design. He has made a name for himself with his oversized murals that showcase the depth and dimension of his talent.

Erik DeBat (aka Risk) started painting graffiti art on Chicago's rapid transit lines in the early 1980s and was among the first wave of Chicago urban artists to exhibit artwork in galleries. In 1986, Risk began creating commissions for several Chicago interior designers and private collectors. In 1989, he was chosen by The Chicago Public Schools to take part in a City Of Chicago mural project with The Chicago Cultural Center's Gallery 37 and pop artist Keith Haring.

Risk has freelanced for several Chicago advertising agencies and design firms, working with clients such as 7-11, Nike Town, 3Com, Motorola, Kraft, Heller Financial, and Mall of America.

Angel D'Amico is a Chicago based illustrator and designer. Loving life and living her dream, Angel has a unique sense of style and a wide range of skills that include drawing, painting, digital art, graphic design, hand screen printing clothing and accessories, book making, sewing, photography, and crocheting. She combines fine art skills with digital artwork, to create beautiful, unique, and exotic environments of work.

Blütt is a Chicago artist who tends to create messy backgrounds with his own bold, unique characters lurking on them. For this, he generally uses spray paint, ink, watercolors, wood, canvases and anything else he can dig up. On the street, he usually uses stickers and posters. When he’s not being anti-social and scribbling on something, he’s walking dogs and falling off bicycles.

Veggiesomething is a Chicago based artist/designer who dabbles in various media. From skateboards to vinyl toys, custom kicks to prints. Veggiesomething is known for his unique characters, bright colors and visual style.