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Rebecca Flaum
Rebecca Flaum is a PDX based illustrator and tattoo artist who specializes in emotive fantasy art and illustrative tattoos. When not tattooing or exploring arcane worlds, she can usually be found exploring this one or puttering around in her North Portland home where she lives with a person, a snake, and two ridiculous cats.
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Erin Norris
Erin Norris (she/her) is a Portland based graphic designer and illustrator who loves typography, color, and print media. She was born and raised in Bangor, Maine and completed a degree in Dance from the University of Oklahoma before making Portland her home in 2016. When she’s not immersed in a creative project, Erin loves live music, roving around town on her bike, shopping for wild prints at local thrift and vintage stores, and looking at adoptable dogs online. Follow her on Instagram at @erinnorris.design
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2022 Festival Graphic Artist
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Laura Mark
Laura Mark is a graphic designer and illustrator. She has worked on a variety of projects including album artwork, book covers, logos, greeting cards and posters. Her love of PDX Pop Now! began as a music-obsessed teenager in the audience, which later turned into volunteering for the festival in different roles. Now she’s beyond excited to be making the festival art (her teenage self wouldn’t believe it!) Lately, you can catch her with the team behind Creative Mornings Portland or nerding out about cheese & taking care of her garden.
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Julz Clementine
In addition to being an amazing surface designer & illustrator, Julz Clemintine also runs Hummingbird Art Camp.
2020 Festival Graphic Artist: Mike Macabre
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Mike Macabre
Mike Macabre is an illustrator & artist living in Portland, OR
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Michael Buchino
Michael Buchino is an art director, illustrator, designer, letterer and animator. He has curated art shows, screen printed gig posters and painted a piano. He is a cofounder nope.ltd, an illustration studio in Portattle, Washegon. His work has appeared in The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and The New York Times. Lately, he has been drawing words at Lexigraphique.
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Manu Berelli
Manu Berelli is a graphic designer, printer, and musician based out of Portland, OR. Manu taught himself to screen print t-shirts over a decade ago where he dreamed of becoming a “real” printer of paper art. Manu has been casually archiving images from Golden Age comic books that have fallen into the public domain for the past 7 years. His recent work involves using these source images to create collages of pictures and text for personal commentary.
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Glenn Allen Henrickson
Glenn Allen Henrickson is a Portland-based artist and illustrator from McMinnville, Oregon. He is ever curious and enjoys delving into a bevy of creative outlets. The classic Northwest dilettante, he plays drums, writes songs, loves food & drink, devours cinema and occasionally harnesses his secret karaoke powers. His art aims at playfully dark humor, sometimes cute and sometimes creepy.
He posts art daily at:
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Ryan Bubnis
Creating the artwork for the 2015 festival season is local artist and educator Ryan Bubnis. Bubnis’ work has been described as “urban folk.” Through his paintings, illustrations, design and mural work, he comments on themes relating to the human condition.
Working both traditionally and digitally he incorporates a range of mediums that include found objects, paper, wood, canvas, aerosol, acrylics, cel vinyl, Papier-Mâché, graphite and India ink. He draws inspiration from life, love, graffiti, folk and outsider art from a variety of cultures.
Bubnis has collaborated with a number of commercial clients and agencies and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S. and abroad. He is currently an Assistant Professor at The Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
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James Mitchell
James Douglas Mitchell is an illustrator / designer living in Portland, Oregon since 2006. He likes skateboarding, playing music with friends, big cities, pop-science, cinema, and cats.
2014 Festival Graphic Artist
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Mark Warren Jacques
Mark Warren Jacques lives within a web of art makers, musicians, skateboarders, and backyard revolutionaries. This close-knit community thrives on representing a sort of whimsy that harnesses the energy of idealism and is rooted in earthy spirituality. Lest you conclude that he lives in a world of naïvete, Jacques will surprise you with his gusto to love, question, and commit himself to the realities of hard work, ambition, and responsibility to his community.Just to name a few, Mark Warren Jacques’ work has been shown at Breeze Block, Stumptown, Together Gallery, White Walls Gallery SF, in addition to being featured in The Mercury, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Surfer Magazine. See more of his works and read his full biography at:
2014 Festival Graphic Artist
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Cole Gerst
Cole is an award winning art director, graphic designer, illustrator & painter. After stints as the art director for two record labels, art directing and designing album packaging and ad campaigns for some of the world’s most influential musicians, Gerst became the first in-house art director for the House of Blues corporation. Here he established a full service art department and created company wide brand guidelines overseeing a nationwide group of designers. In 2002 Gerst left House of Blues to create option-g visual communication. For the last 10 years option-g has been continuously growing and gaining notoriety with its design and illustration style. It has been highly influential and accredited for helping foster the resurgence of the “gig” poster, designing posters for such bands as the Shins, Beck, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes & Interpol. He has won multiple awards for design from Communication Arts, Print and How Magazine.His work can be found here:
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Jodi Beecham
Jodie is an amazing illustrator and designer living in Portland, OR. She is constantly inspired by scientific illustrations, tattoo flash, and anything remotely spooky. When she’s not being creative, she’s usually either watching live music at a local venue, or is at an arcade playing pinball.
2011 Festival Graphic Artist
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Santiago Uceda
Santiago Uceda does illustration, art direction, motion graphics, makes tasty sandwiches, stays up late, listens, observes, questions, changes diapers, gives piggy back rides, collaborates, makes posters, designs t-shirts, cd packaging, magazines, etc. He has worked directly or indirectly with many talented folks, brands and institutions including but not limited to: Adidas, Billabong, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Surfing Magazine, LA Weekly, Bike Magazine, Portland Mercury. He also writes terrible bios.His work can be found here:
2010 Festival Graphic Artist
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Carson Ellis
Carson Ellis was born in Vancouver. B.C. in 1975. She was raised in suburban New York and college educated at the University of Montana in Missoula where she earned a painting degree in 1998. She’s the illustrator of many books, including New York Times bestsellers The Composer Is Dead (Lemony Snicket) and The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart). In addition to book illustration she does artwork and art direction for the band, The Decemberists. Carson lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Colin, and son, Hank. Her work can be found here :
2009 Festival Graphic Artist
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Dylan McConnell
Dylan McConnell doesn’t generally like talking about himself, his work, or any of that garbage. In fact he doesn’t want to talk about it at all. He’d rather bike around, make music, go to shows, eat mexican food and hunt for delicious, delicious vinyl.His work is can be found here :
2008 Festival Graphic Artist
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EMEK
Emek has been referred to as “The Thinking Man’s Poster Artist”.
Coming from a unique family of 5 artists, Emek has made his mark creating special posters and album covers for prominent musicians for 15 years.He was recently credited for creating some of the best rock posters of all time by Billboard Magazine…Emek’ style thrives on attention to detail, coupled with layers of meaning in the artwork. His infusion of socio-political commentary into pop culture imagery has made his work instantly recognizable in the field. Emphasizing craftsmanship, his work is still hand-drawn in the tradition of the classic psychedelic posters from the 1960’s. Born in the 70’s Emek was also strongly influenced by the DIY punk flyers of the 80’s.Over the last 2 decades, Emek has created hundreds of posters for some of the top alternative bands and events, like Coachella, the Decemberists, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, System of a Down, Pearl Jam, The Flaming Lips, to name a few. As well as album covers from Neil Young and Pearl Jam to Henry Rollins and Erykah Badu. Emek’s work has been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe. He has been interviewed on CNN, and featured in dozens of magazines and books. For more about his work, visit :
