Mayumi Yamase is an artist living and working in Tokyo. Her work whether a drawing, a painting or in 3D-form is composed of colours and organic forms. How the space is occupied with these colours and shapes helps to unfold unexpected forms organically grown like a plants and living like organs and a unique dialogue between them.   Mayumi has exhibited pieces in London, Singapore and numerous times in throughout Japan alongside commissioned work for Comme des Garçons.

Anouk Kruithof is a multi media artist; she makes mainly photos as well as video-works, installations, artist-publications, collages and social in situ-works. Anouk Kruithof is fascinated by ‘the mental state of being of humans’ of her time and environment. She responds on people’s struggle to deal with the universal emotions of life. At this moments she lives In New York, because she attends the artist in residency 'photoglobal' at the school of visual arts in New York.

Matt is a product designer currently working for Dropbox in San Francisco, CA.

Spatial design and creative director. Editor in Chief Dream Magazine.

Zara Arshad was born and raised in the UK, but has also lived in Syria and Indonesia. She now resides in China as a graduate of the BA (Hons) Design course, Goldsmiths College. Strongly influenced by Bruce Mau, Troika and Graffiti Research Lab, she continually promotes internationalism and the potential of design to solve social and political issues.  As well as practicing as a freelance, multi-disciplinary designer, Zara currently works on the Organising Committee for Beijing Design Week 2011 and writes for Design China.

Artist based in Stockholm

Roberto Calbucci is a painter and freelance graphic designer. After living in Milan and Tokyo, Roberto and his wife Meloni Mitchell (model/designer) decided to set up base for a while in the Italian countryside in a tiny village called Montecarotto, to concentrate on their projects. Roberto works independently as a painter, focusing on his research: science, nature, entropy, and order-chaos.  The places below that he recommends for Citylikeyou are located near his small town.

I'm an illustrator from Paris yay

painting and drawing

Photographer/Graphic Designer

Helga Traxler, born 1984 in Austria, also known as Photosalonhelga – is a Freelance-Photographer with a Masters Degree in Visual Communications. Helga has worked with clients such as: New York Times T-Magazine, New York Magazine - The Cut, Ryan McGinley Studios, Rauschenberg Foundation, Walter Schupfer Management, Mac Cosmetics, Sweden Unlimited, Bullett Media, Conrad Rosett, Mango, Ebay, Allianz, amm. Through the experimentation with the medium she is blurring the boundaries between fashion and art. Helga is known for her cautious, calculated approach and varied photographic style with strong attention paid to details and colour schemes. Her focus is squarely on people. Helga is based in Brooklyn/New York City.

I like to draw

Ariel Di Lisio is a graphic & type designer from Argentina who specializes in branding and typography. His approach is fresh and modern, and his work is focused on aesthetics as well as functionality. From his earlier designs to his most recent projects, every piece created shows his love for the process: thinking about the concept, establishing the general mood and the overall look & feel, the production stage, and the final output. In 2009, in its annual edition, the acclaimed publication I.D. Magazine selected him as one of the 40 leading designers in the world. That same year he was also selected to participate in the Lubalin Now Exhibition Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union, NYC.  He has been a visiting teacher at University ©Cedim, Monterrey MEX in 2010, 2011 and 2017, and also at UDEM, Universidad de Monterrey in 2012 and 2019. Since 2015 he has also been a consultant for the Postgraduate Program in Branding in the renowned FADU-UBA. His devotion to the profession has taken him to different countries around the world, where he has given lectures and directed workshops about design and typography on local universities and congresses.

Jocelyn (b. 1988) is a photography graduate from Worcestershire, England. She started taking photographs at a young age, making a photobook aged seven. She regained her passion for taking pictures during high school and after completing a BTEC in Photography she graduated in June 2010 from a BA in Photographic Art at the University of Wales, Newport.  She currently lives and works in London, working on various projects and preferring to shoot in medium format.

Neelima Narayanan, originally from India, grew up in Singapore and moved to New York to study product design at Parsons. Her inspirations come from a range of different disciplines such as science, art, or fashion and design. She is currently a freelancing designer in New York and continuing her own personal projects.