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Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1969, Sikander went on to study at the National
College of the Arts in Pakistan. She has since then won many awards and
has established herself in the art scene as a talented artist specializing in
Indian and Persian miniature paintings. Sikander has expanded her
miniature paintings to wall murals and installations.

This kind of art takes a lot of technical skill and patience, but underneath
all this technical art, Sikander was able to add her own emotion and feelings
to the form, including the exploration of her own religion, Muslim, and others
such as Hindu. Sikander will usually explore religion through her artwork
by combining religious symbols.

Bright colours, fine lines and cute little ladies wearing designer clothes.
Artaksinya creates fashion illustrations that display a lot of character and
originality. You may often see people in her illustrations ranging from
famous magazine editors, photographers and runway classics.

It is quite hard to find any online information about Artaksinya, but as
soon as i get any updates, I will let all of you readers know. I hope you
enjoy the rest of her beautiful drawings.

Amy Stein is a talented photographer from Washington and now living in
New York. Her work is often quite satirical and witty. Her work explored
the evolving isolation within our community and environment, which is why
a lot of her work is often suburban and utilizes the use of space.

In here latest collection titled 'Domesticated', Stein explored the idea of
humans ruining the world and animals one day ruling it. It is fascinating
to look at Amy's work, because of the different look at the world that we
currently living in. Some perceptions are sad and others are sweet.

Toko are a two person company living in Sydney, Australia but hailing
from Rotterdam, Netherlands. They have to be my personal favorite
designers at the moment, they are inspirational and talented ( a great
mix). Eva Dijkstra and Michael Lugmayr the two members of Toko,
recently spoke at a design conference in Sydney, they explained the
way they create and the difference between Sydney and the Netherlands.
The Netherlands are known for simple, clean crisp designs and this is
apparent while looking at Toko's designs.

The have created posters, amazing typography, websites and signs,
always bringing a sense of vibrancy and colour, but also structure and
line. Each peice of their design is unique and unusual, which makes
it very exciting to look through a portfolio of their work.

He spent five years in Paris studying fine arts in and now creates beautiful
and delicate drawings for publications such as Nylon and Vogue. He finds
his inspiration to create his designs through fashion capitals of the world
such as London and Paris. From his designs, Cocopit then creates
wallpaper, drawings for magazines and prints.

Coco began his design career because friends of his in the fashion industry
wanted the illustrations for lookbooks, websites and magazines. When
creating his works, he doesnt start off by using sketchbooks, he uses more
old fashioned techniques such as painting, drawing and ceramics. While
he does mix a lot of techniques in his design works, the ultimate outcome
he aims for is minimalism which is what makes the works so successful.

Ye Rin Mok is a photographer that was born in the lovely land of Seoul and
now lives and works in the busy and stylish Los Angeles. Ye Rin's work has
a great contract between empty space and chaos. She uses her subjects in
interesting and unusual positions.

Her photographs are simple but still hold a strong story to them, the simplicity
helps to add a sort of solemn feeling to her photographs. The colours in her
photographs range from soft earthy tones to bright bold colours, the lines and
composition are exquisit and the models often hold a very nice posture. Her
photographs are beautiful to look at and make you ponder what the subject is
thinking.

I will choose a couple of my favourite art blogs to share with everyone once
in a while, because sometimes there are these amazingly talented people,
but they have not had the chance to exhibit or publish there work around the world (yet). But these people appear to have talent to me, so I'd love to
share them with you.

What are some of your favourite art blogs?

Beautiful, feminine, innocent and raw. Camille Vivier's photographs capture
a candid look at life. They express an image that looks as if you are peeking
into someones personal world, and they have no idea. Camille started taking
photographs at the age of 18, for her, she grew up seeing magazines as a
great medium for expression (mags such as i-D and the Face) so naturally
that lead her to want to photograph.

Camille takes her photographs as if she is capturing stories or characters in
a book. She is inspired by the composition of props in film and theater, so
she takes this admiration in order to decide how she will compose the
subjects of her work. When she photographs people, Camille seems to
view them as silent and frozen, when she photographs animals, she focuses
on their eyes. Her way of seeing, is captured in her photos and tells a story
of mystery and secrets