If Pippi Longstocking and Ingmar Bergman had a love child, it would be Mia Mäkilä. The Swedish artist scours our nightmares for inspiration, painting haunting childlike demons that would even make Tim Burton weep. Makila is particularly known for her Boschian (Hieronymus Bosch) style in her mixed media works, and she is inspired by movie directors such as Terry Gilliam, John Waters and Hitchcock, as well as 13th-17th century artists like Pieter Bruegel the elder, Hans Memling and Lucas Cranach.  She is also involved in the European Lowbrow Art Movement.

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If you mix Marvel comics, Star Wars and other cartoon characters with a little dose of Warhol and Basquiat , you will get the cool art from Aussie Anthony Lister !

Q – Where do you situate your notion of a superhero in terms of culture today?
A – At the top of everything else that is holy and pure.
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An other mixed media Artisy, digital post production, retouching, multi image merging, effects and manipulating scenes, there is pretty much nothing that Atomic Attack don’t do. Founded in 1997 by owner Calvin Ho, he worked for prestigious clients such as Cartier, Harper’s Bazaar, Levi’s, Nokia and Wired amongst others. His work is original fashion related,  fresh and futuristic in the same time, I like it a lot. See more of his work at www.atomicattack.com

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An other beautiful mixed media illustrator/graphic designer, Brazilian born and Los Angeles based Douglas Alves have some stunning images in his portfolio, a 26 years old self-taught graphic designer who worked already for some prestigious company like Coca-cola, Mtv, Microsoft and Honda amongst others…  I like a lot the fact that he’s showcasing his work in large format – You should definitely check his nice flash website: www.nacionale.net and his Behance

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