Lou Simeone
Lou has been a designer and illustrator for almost twenty years. As a child he spent many solitary hours tucked away in quiet places drawing Disney and Looney Tunes characters, creating his own comic strips and reading Mad Magazine and Al Jaffee books.
Armed with a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in design, and his love of art, Lou set out on a long career that so far has taken him through many journeys, from staff designer to art director to managing a design studio, to freelance designer and illustrator.
When not designing, illustrating or being totally consumed with the Illustration Pages site, you can find Lou spending time with his two children, who he likes to spoil, knows he shouldn’t, but does so anyway.
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Melissa Kojima
Melissa is a Los Angeles based illustrator, fine artist, designer and mixed media sculptress. Also known as Artist in LA LA Land, Melissa creates crazy, witty, strange, surreal art that is inspired by the insane L.A. metropolis she calls home. Using acrylic paint, India ink, papier mache, collage and mixed media, Melissa creates images and sculptures that are disturbing, funny, bizarre and peculiar. She particularly loves illustrating monsters, caricatures, aliens, tentacles, multiple faced people, giant insects, robots and anything scary, odd or ugly.
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Lydia Gnau
From the tender age of four, when Lydia took her mother’s red lipstick and transformed the lackluster-beige flowers on her mother's dining room wallpaper into a garden of brilliant, scarlet-petaled blooms, she knew she wanted to be an artist.
College began for Lydia with a double major in Fine Arts and Biology – an attempt on her part to resolve the ongoing battle between her right and left brain and decide upon a career path that vacillated between professional illustrator and genetic research scientist. Life took Lydia on a detour from her originally planned path, as life so often does, to that of copywriting - painting images with words instead of a brush (or lipstick) and incorporating the science of human behavior all in the name of the multi-faceted art of Communications.
Writing has taken Lydia on a never-a-dull-moment journey through a variety of industries including fashion, interior design, manufacturing, chemicals, finance, pharmaceuticals, healthcare (human and animal), as well as paint, color theory and home décor.
Lydia enjoys spoiling her two rescued pit-bulls, Indie and Luna, baking, reading, gardening and botanical illustration.









