Erin Hanson – Life-long Painter

Erin Hanson - Life-long Painter

[quote style=”boxed”]I think everyone should read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand because it teaches you to stand on your own two feet financially speaking and about integrity.[/quote] Erin Hanson transforms desert landscape into an abstract mosaic of color and texture. The impasto application of paint lends a sculptural effect…

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Naysawn Naderi – Founder of Art Sumo

Naysawn Naderi - Founder of Art Sumo

Naysawn Naderi is a Canadian engineer turned global entrepreneur. Naysawn was picked up by Microsoft scouts during his senior year at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and spent the next four years in Seattle, Washington developing and releasing Microsoft Test Professional, speaking at conferences around the world, and drinking free…

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Hasalyn Harris : News Anchor and Co-Founder of Aloneinforest

Hasalyn Harris : News Anchor and Co-Founder of Aloneinforest

[quote style=”boxed”]I’ve learned the key to happiness at work is to doing what I love. Those are often the things I’ve found I’m better at anyway.[/quote] Hasalyn Harris is a writer / filmmaker / ideas person who has been moonlighting as the anchor and producer of Montana Today – a…

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Jeff Staple – Founder and Owner of Staple Design

Jeff Staple - Founder and Owner of Staple Design

With his hands in just about everything, 33-year-old Jeffrey Ng a.k.a. Jeff Staple has masterfully created a world of communicating through design. The founder and owner of Staple Design, Staple Clothing and Reed Space, Jeff is a graphic, Web and clothing designer, artist, DJ, writer and entrepreneur. Born in New…

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Laurence Lafforgue – Founder of ArtWeLove

Laurence Lafforgue - Founder of ArtWeLove

Laurence Lafforgue is the founder of ArtWeLove.com, an online platform which makes it fun and easy to explore the best of contemporary art and buy affordable museum-quality art editions by today’s top artists. Before founding ArtWeLove, Laurence  was a senior partner at Ogilvy Interactive, a large digital ad agency. Her…

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Nick Haas – Chicago Artist and Founder of Haastyle

Nick Haas - Chicago Artist and Founder of Haastyle

Nick Haas is an interactive, graphic artist and photographer whose gritty artwork has been the focus of exhibitions in Chicago and Los Angeles. His clients include companies such as The William Morris Agency, Random House Publishing, Livingstone Partners, Studio F Design, Art Effex USA, Night and Day Pictures, and Safeway…

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Molly Crabapple – Founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Molly learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. She later drew her way through Morocco and Kurdistan, and once into a Turkish jail. She’s developed her trademark Victorian style based on a fascination with ambition…

Meet Molly Crabapple – Founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Molly Crabapple – Founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School

Molly Crabapple - Founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Molly learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. She later drew her way through Morocco and Kurdistan, and once into a Turkish jail. She’s developed her trademark Victorian style based on a fascination with ambition…

Meet Molly Crabapple – Founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School

Suzanne Akin: Owner of Akinz, Founder of Morningbird Collective

Suzanne Akin is a freelance graphic designer that has a thing for starting companies. Her pride and joy is her personal clothing line, www.akinz.com which is geared towards the snowboarding and wakeboarding communities of which she herself is a member. She says that this is the closest she has ever…

Meet Suzanne Akin: Owner of Akinz, Founder of Morningbird Collective