Multi award-winning Carioca Studio is a world-renowned image concept house highly sought after for their work, specialising in advertising imagery.

Carioca was founded in 2005 by three artists (Dragos Coman, Andrei Stoleru and Dragos Traistaru), all photographers with fine art and advertising backgrounds, along with production expertise. They always have a strong vision about each new project they are involved in, Carioca starts with a big idea: and bring their complete vision and perfect execution from production and shooting to post-production.

Carioca offers integrated visual services, from production (locations, casting, hair & makeup artists, set construction, mock-ups) to photography, Illustration, CGI and post production. The company now has 23 people working in three different departments – Production, 3D and Post-Production.

Clients include Dalwhinnie, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Europcar, Mercedes-Benz, Sony Ericsson, VW and WWF. Carioca Studio have been awarded Cannes Lions, Epica and ranked as #2 in photography by Lürzers Archive. 

Based in SE Asia, Paul David, who began his career in fashion/advertising photography, has transitioned into the role of an AI fashion/art designer.

He adeptly combines his passion for the arts with cutting-edge technology to create groundbreaking and captivating artworks.

With a profound understanding of art and photography history, as well as an acute awareness of color nuances, and backed by 20 years of retouching skills, he has quickly developed a fascination for the potential of AI and machine learning.

He employs these tools to expand the horizons of conventional art and explore fresh avenues of creative expression.

"My aspiration is to craft digital art that transcends the conventional boundaries of the digital medium, such that it defies recognition as digital art altogether.

I find immense satisfaction in the progress I've made so far on this creative journey."

Living and working in the Hague, Aart-Jan Venema uses digital and traditional painting techniques to create multi-layered and fantastically coloured illustrations, anchored with a strong compositional eye.

Aart likes to fill his illustrations with stories, surprises and details for the viewer to find, reminiscent of one of his favourite painters, Hieronymous Bosch.

Aart’s diverse portfolio has led him to work with clients such as Google, BMW, The New Yorker, Kiehl’s, ZEIT Magazine, Douwe Egberts, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Green Man Festival, and The Guardian. Aart has also illustrated his first picture book ‘Night Windows’, published by Cicada Books.

Aart-Jan Venema is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.

Motion designer and mixed media collage artist Ania Augustynowicz, Augustynka, is currently based in Warsaw, Poland. Her fashion industry experience has provided her with a unique perspective from which she creates her art. By combining and decomposing pictures, her unique creative process creates eye-catching pieces of modern art.

Ania’s clients include global fashion brands and magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Celine, and many more. Ania has also participated as a judge in creative events and lectured about collage in addition to her artwork. Through her art, she combines both photography and videos to create a compelling visual story for musicians, the fashion industry, and a variety of creative clients.

See more of Augustynka’s work here. Ania is represented by JSR, give them a follow on Instagram.

Dola Sun is an artist who creates illustrations filled with graphic shapes and layers of texture. She works both traditionally and digitally and the process of solving a problem with visual language is what she excels at. She received her master’s degree in illustration from SCAD in the US.
Her works have been featured in the Society of Illustrators NY, Communication Arts,Society of Illustrators LA, Applied Art,3×3 Creative quarterly.

Clients include NYC MTA Subway, McDonald’s, Unilever, Starbucks, Amazon, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Times, TED Talks, Audubon Magazine, VICE, Buzzfeed News, The National Public Radio, Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent.

See more of Dola’s work here. Dola Sun is represented by JSR, give them a follow on Instagram.

Illustrator Jaime Hayde is based in Northern Spain, he shares his studio with a cat, (actually he’s the boss) and an intern who manages the doors and the social media.

He loves drawing, especially characters, using bold colours, shapes and lines and is comfortable working with vectors. He has his own voice and point of view, both artistic and literally. Jaime loves sharing diversity through his work, diverse bodies, and diverse love. He’s interested in how illustration can take things to the next level by trying to create his own narratives and believes that illustration is a good way to say things without using words. His graphic design background also gives him valuable knowledge to understanding and nailing a brief.

Clients include: BBYA, Caja Rural, Warner Music, Xbox, Tetu Magazine and The Huffington Post, among others.

Jaime is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.

Pietro Soldi is a Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist based in London, UK. Massively inspired by the newspaper comic strips universe, his work is characterised by loose linework, lively colour and humour. Apart from his extensive love for black ink on paper, Pietro also enjoys when he gets to experiment with different materials and other techniques such as animation.

Pietro is 6′ 4″ and can be easily used as a reference point in a crowded place (his wife does it all the time).

After more than ten years working on advertising, Pietro quit his office life to live from his drawings and was never happier. He has worked with clients like The Washington Post, Brex, Nested, Even, Results UK, and Fine Acts.

Pietro Soldi is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.

Parisian-born Beya Rebai is a prolific artist, always with a sketchbook and wax pastels in hand. Fascinated by colour and inspired by the artistic current of the Nabis, Beya builds her drawings with a narrow and carefully selected colour range which is central to her work.

Everything is an excuse to draw; a bouquet of flowers, a girl in a cafe, the grace of a mountain. She draws on real life, her imagination and memories to create illustrations that tell a story.

Clients include Nike, Rimowa, Paris Airport, The Guardian, The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Beya Rebai is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.

Based in Spain, Carla Lucena is a graphic design and illustrator who uses dreamy soft textures and pastel colours to build her vintage aesthetic. With a focus on architecture, people and nature, and taking inspiration from mid-century design, Carla’s vector illustrations are clean and stylish.

Her career began as an art director in the advertising world for agencies such as Ogilvy and McCann, though she quickly realised her preferred creative language was in fact illustration. Carla has been illustrating ever since, winning accolades from Lürzer's and working for clients such as British Airways, Royal Ascot, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, The Sunday Times, Gore-Tex and Shop Magazine.

Carla Lucena is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.

Cathal Duane is an Irish illustrator, who is now based in France. Cathal’s work is bold, modern, and consisting of highly figurative and expressive forms, smart compositions and joyful colour schemes.

Cathal has worked on commercial and editorial projects with clients like WIRED, Time Out, The Atlantic, BBC, Empire Magazine, Bandai Spirits, The Association of Illustrators and the Belfast City Council.

Cathal is represented by JSR, see more here. You can follow the agency on Instagram for the latest news.