Toony Navok graduated the Advanced studies programe in MFA studies - Bezalel Academy of art & Design, Tel Aviv, and engages mainly in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Her sculptural works rely on found materials, transforming banal mundane objects into fantastical, dynamic structures which draw their form from basic architectural elements and aesthetic codes of interior design, yet always display a disorderly, fragile version, seeking an inner rhythm and balance all their own. Toony Navok lives and works in Tel Aviv.

London-based Mancunian Dan Stafford is a trained illustrator and image maker. He enjoys creating intelligent solutions to a brief by mixing startling colour and precise semiotics.

Hard to define, Dan's work is a juxtaposition of digital and analogue techniques; communicative and hypnotic, his work is engaging in any context.

OK-RM is a London based design studio founded in 2008 by Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath. Working with a broad range of clients from individuals to institutions, the studio has a project specific approach allowing for a highly varied output that encompasses visual identity, publication design, art direction, editorial and digital projects. The studio’s methodology is built on an objective to communicate the intrinsic attributes of each commission through well-crafted, thoughtful and direct solutions. A grounding in conceptual thinking and a distinctive language based typographic approach is essential to the studio’s practice.

We believe that the studio delivers exceptional work and must be featured even more in the near future.

Mathiassen was a co-founder of the Norwegian graphic design studio Grandpeople, established 2005.  Mathiassen has worked on a variety of projects with clients including Microsoft Zune, Nike Europe, Nike USA, The Norwegian Film School, Bergen International Festival, Bergen County Council, MTV Nordic, Converse and Varoom Magazine. We especially admire his illustrations.

Thank you David Callow for introducing MVM to Qompendium.

All the Way to Paris is a danish-swedish graphic designstudio based in Copenhagen, founded in 2004 by Tanja Vibe and Petra Olsson Gendt. The ladies have ever since build a solid agency reputation working for both commercial and cultural clients. We are intrigued by their work for the Karrier Bar and a really nice newspaper they have created for this bar.

Karl Nawrot and Walter Warton founded their studio Voidwreck in Amsterdam with Karl a graduate of the Werkplaats Typografie, a school considered as quite influencial in the realm of typography. Both graphic designers like to explore different mediums in order to develop shape and pattern within the borders of typography. Check out their site and make sure to reload often in order to see more.

Teagan White is a freelance designer and illustrator from Chicago, currently a student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her experience working with a diverse range of clients, from those in the music, fashion, and editorial industries to small business owners and individuals, has allowed her to reject much of the sterility of contemporary design in favor of an aesthetically-focused approach that bridges the perceived gap between graphic design and illustration. Intricate linework, naturalistic rendering, and subdued color are integral to her visual identity, while a fascination with natural history, antiquities, and mortality drives the content of her work.

Carl Kleiner made his major debut with the publication of Ikea's baking book "Homemade is Best". Every one is talking about the beautiful still life imagery he accomplished for that book. His portfolio reveals a much deeper expertise he has for still life. Kleiner seems to translate aesthetics from a one piece object to a more tangible setting. A great inspiration and talent.

Christian Tagliavini is born in 1971 and of Swiss and Italian heritage. Here is in his own words, how he thinks about photography and art: "I have lived and studied in Italy and Switzerland in the 80s. Technical education, creative evolution self-taught. Then, the crossroads: on one side, graphics. On the other side, photography. I start with the idea, then I search someone to impersonate it. I build up stories and dramatize them using photography and creativity as a skillful artifice being at the same time author, stage designer, costume designer, casting manager, director - and photographer. I draw inspiration from other photographers and artists: Luigi Ghirri is to me the greatest Italian photographer. His misty landscapes pierced with the winter light remind me of the places where I grew up. Erwin Olaf, creative, elegant, ironic: I consider him a flawless model of technique and style, a true perfectionist of the artificial image."

Baker′s aims to discuss the complex relationship between society and its technologies. Trained first as a scientist and only recently as an artist, his practice represents an uneasy balance of eager technological optimism, analytical processes, deep-rooted skepticism and intuitive engagement. Much of this practice is inspired by the interconnectivities – visible and invisible – present in the modern urban landscape.

One of his projects "American Toys" was created by combining images from every United States patent containing the phrase "toy pistol". The earliest image dates back to the mid 1800′s.

Austrian artist Valentin Ruhry is born in 1982 in Graz. Starting his career with a scholarship at the Royal School of Art and Design in Oslo, he later had no efforts presenting and showcasing his work to European galleries. Momentarily he is Assistant Lecturer at the HTBLA Ortweinschule in Graz. His installations and artistic settings are of minimal nature and should not be reduced to that only.

Swedish-born Ida Matilda Lehtonen was born in 1985. Based in Gothenburg she creates ironic settings and installations with every day objects. She is also a part of Wave Int'l,  a platform for an international community of artists and thinkers which is a quarterly publication and exhibition directed by Brian Khek and Jasmine Lee.

German artist Flora Hitzing lives and works in Düsseldorf. She began her career back in 2000 receiving a foreign exchange scholarship from the Carl-Duisber-Gesellschaft. Today she works for private collectors and contributes to the collections of the state Nord Rhein Westphalen and the Foundation Museum Kunstpalast. We especially enjoy her drawings reminding of underwater living forms.

Toby Christian is born in Lincolnshire in 1983. Shortly after his graduation in 2007, Christian was included in "4 New Sensations", an exhibition by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4. And since 2008 he has been part of different shows on an international level. His work largely includes sculptures with various materials. 

Dutch artist Ellen Urselmann was born in 1978 in Venlo and has lived in Venlo, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Cape Town and Baarlo. In 2000 she graduated at the Academy of Fine Art Maastricht and in 2003 she graduated in glass at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Miriam Böhm was born in 1972. She attended the Academy of Art, Vienna (1993-97) and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (1999/2000) for Postgraduate Master Studies. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Harris Lieberman, New York , Institut, Berlin, Analix Forever, Geneva, and Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Paris. Böhm currently lives and works in Berlin. This is her first solo exhibition. If there is art by a young artist to be "jealous" of than it would Miriam Böhm's outstanding simple compositions.

Milwaukee-born Patrick Armstrong experiments with animations and movies. He also is behind the Adobe PDF Exhbition Project, which we find an exceptional idea.

Micah Schippa is born in 1988 and a resident of Chicago, USA. We stumbled upon his work and find it refreshing. At the same time he understands to be conceptual and approachable – photoshop digitalism meets analogue reality art.