CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

RideMagnetism™ welcomes the work of local, national, and international artists, designers and photographers as part of its mission to support the fine arts and graphic arts communities.

Contributors of visual images and designs receive 15% of the sales price (excluding taxes, shipping and handling) of their magnets through a licensing agreement with RideMagnetism™.

One of the great joys of RideMagnetism™ for the owners, Meg and Patty, is to work with old friends and new in the international creative community and watch their work grow in popularity, recognition and reputation.

ARTISTS, DESIGNERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS

Patty Andrews

Patty started out as an image maker. She drew on every available surface: walls, furniture, newspapers and reams of paper. One night when she was four, she drew a huge Dutch boy and girl in wooden shoes with an orange crayon next to her bed. In the light of day, she admired her handiwork and then her parents found it.

When Patty grew up she took printmaking in college and eventually found herself in the Graphic Design program at the University of Washington. After graduating with honors, Patty worked in publishing as a designer, art director and project manager. Her image-making days had become a thing of the past.

Patty enjoys giving the public another venue to support worthy causes while expressing their true colors, be it orange or otherwise. RideMagnetism.com gives her an opportunity to “draw on the walls” again.

Rayne Beaudoin

Rayne has been around illustration most of his life. As a young man, he enjoyed hanging around his school’s art department, local sign shops, and spending hours redrawing favorite comic strips. After attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he bounced around LA as an art director. Working for ad agencies in the days before computers meant rendering endless layouts and storyboards.

In 1983, Rayne moved to NYC to seek fame and fortune. Instead, he found himself buying vintage art from Illustration House and loitering at the Society of Illustrators on 63rd and Park Avenue. He came to realize that art direction and design pay the bills. His brushes wanted more action so he moved to Seattle in 1985 with a promise to turn up the wrist.

Rayne’s balance between art direction and illustration continues. While wearing his designer’s hat, he often hires other illustrators because he enjoys working with them. Communication Arts Illustration Annual and the New York Festival’s World Medal Award are only a few of the many recognitions he has received while collaborating. Currently, Rayne is doing more illustration than ever. Painting and drawing everyday are a priority after a morning jog with his wife and reading Calvin and Hobbs reruns.

Jaime Clay

Jaime is a teacher of Digital Media at several Colleges, Universities and Schools in Vancouver, Canada, most notably Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He also teaches other instructors on the effective use of Technology and Media in the School of Instructor Education at VCC. His love of teaching started 20 years ago when he was first introduced to the new technology when the two disciplines grew together . He has had stints as a digital designer for print, web and interactivity, digital composer and sound designer for animation, web, TV and film and was a producer and interface designer for The Centre for Science and Technology in Al-Kobar, Saudi Arabia.

He studied Art in Rome (where he grew up), Wales and Vancouver. He is also a musician and composer.

“Growing up in Italy was a lesson in art unto itself. The street is where I learned both music and art from an early age. The large billboards and posters that advertised cinema, lifestyles, soap and drinks is a standout. Those were untouchable, and often studied now in historical contexts. An open window on a hot evening in Rome would provide a glimpse and aural nugget of culture that a 10 year old such as myself could enjoy. I am will be forever on a quest to recapture all this visually and sonically. I am a true believer of environmental learning and am excited to be able to contribute to Ridemagnetism in this positive way.”

donnia&co

donnia&co is a seattle-based creative studio which handles projects from idea construction with clients, graphic design and final print preparation. After 15 years, donnia still loves design and the creative process. Making ideas tangible, understanding what the client really wants and enjoying it are truly the joys of this industry.

Edwin Fotheringham

In Seattle's pop-cultural history: the nation's psyche was focused on some grubby music types, and all that they touched. Having certain band members as housemates afforded Mr. Fotheringham the opportunity to illustrate their CD covers. With portfolio in hand, he seized the opportunity to make a trip to New York City while attention was high.

With commercial work that has addressed subjects and markets as varied as punk rock and Neiman Marcus, The New Yorker and Ladies' Home Journal, a Visa Card campaign and an elementary school auction, Fotheringham continues to enjoy solving visual problems with blotty lines. His design for the logo for Art! For Animals’ Sake graces the bumper magnet raising money for animal rescue and welfare.

Max Grover

Max Grover is best known for the colorful, playful paintings he shows in West Coast galleries. He has illustrated many children’s books and his imagery is featured on greeting cards, posters, and promotional material for many prestigious organizations and nonprofit foundations. Max’s primitive, naive painting style is full of charm and whimsy. As a painting teacher and public speaker, Max shares his secrets of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary with both children and adults.

Max Grover lives and paints in Port Townsend, Washington with his wife, Sherry, and their two cats, Oreo and Cheddar. When in Port Townsend, visit the Max Grover Gallery at 820 Water Street where you’ll find more of Max’s fun art for the serious mind!

Pat Hansen

Pat received a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Washington, and attended the Kunst Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. Since founding Hansen Design Company in 1980, Pat has committed herself to excellence in all aspects of design and business management – earning international recognition for her role in promoting the value of design as a critical part of business strategy. Pat is a frequent guest lecturer and juror for design shows around the country and has taught at the University of Washington in the Graphic Design School.

Pat became the founding President of the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1987. She then served four years on the National Board of Directors of the AIGA, in addition to a term as Vice President of its Executive Committee. Acknowledged in 1998 by Graphic Design USA, Pat was identified and featured as one the the nation’s top ten women designers. In 2000, Pat was elected a Fellow of AIGA, based on contributions over the course of her career and was featured in How Magazine. Pat was honored with Media Inc.’s Person of the Year Award in Graphic Design and featured in a PRINT Magazine cover story.

Pat founded Noteable You Gifts™ in 2006. The same vision that has led Pat to great success in her design field now fuels her passion for this special line of personalized gifts. Pat stands behind the company mission: to create a happier planet, one person at a time – by offering personized gift products that contain messages of appreciation, celebration, acknowledgment, encouragement, support and love.

Kerry Kriger

Kerry Kriger is the founder and executive director of SAVE THE FROGS!, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization at www.savethefrogs.com. As a conservation biologist, his research is directed to preventing the extinction of wildlife populations and to ensuring that the Earth has healthy ecosystems. Most of his research to date has focused on chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease responsible for mass mortalities, population declines and extinctions of amphibian species on five continents. At least 285 amphibian species worldwide are affected by the disease. In terms of biodiversity loss, chytridiomycosis is the worst disease ever recorded for any group of organisms. There currently exists no suitable methods for eradicating the disease from wild populations. Kerry regularly gives free public lectures on the amphibian extinction crisis. Kerry continues to build SAVE THE FROGS! into the world's leading amphibian conservation organization. With a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, Kerry has close to 20 articles published to date.

Adam Kuglin

Adam Kuglin, a Minneapolis native and recent Seattle transplant, is the Collateral and Promotions Developer for Equal Rights Washington, Washington’s largest LGBT advocacy organization. Charged with the task of building the organization’s visual brand, much of his work is in designing high-visibility, multi-piece promotional campaigns in both the political advocacy and fundraising realms.

A student now pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Seattle, Adam’s previous experience includes brand development, graphic design and event promotion for OutFront Minnesota, and event coordination and brand design as the assistant program director of the Twin Cities-based Playhouse Theater. These days, he spends much of his professional time providing freelance design services under the umbrella of his MKUGLIN CREATIVE studio.

Adam is a Taurus, loves a good chai latte, and is a terrible bowler.

Vyvyn Lazonga

Vyvyn is one of the first female tattoo artists in the world to go out on her own. She works for herself and her art, breaking many boundaries and challenging the tattoo/artistic norm. She continues to create amazing custom body art today.

Vyvyn has always done art, ever since she could remember, from the age of about two. Anything she could pick up and draw with she did. Vyvyn remembers getting in trouble for drawing on all of the furniture and walls with crayons at the age of three. The tattoo muse struck her in the early l970’s after she saw an article about Cliff Raven and his tattoos. Vyvyn realized how beautiful it is to create a work of art in a form one can carry as a powerful talisman for life.

Vyvyn learned tattooing on the original “skid road” in Seattle from one of the old timers, C.J. Danny Danzl. After serving a 7-year apprenticeship with Danny, Vyvyn struck out on her own in Seattle and then in San Francisco. Vyvyn made friends with some of the local tattooists in San Francisco like Henry Goldfield, Ed Hardy, Bill Salmon, Lyle Tuttle, Erno and Captain Don. She was honored to met Kurinomo, (Horiyoshi II) at one of Lyle Tuttle’s parties. After the earthquake of 1989 and with her shop in ruins in San Francisco, Vyvyn moved back to Seattle. Vyvyn’s current shop is located in one of the main historical buildings in the Pike Place Market, about two blocks from the waterfront in Seattle, and it’s here that she recently added some new talented artists.

Debra Lee

Debra, raised a “Navy Brat” was given to relocating to a new state or country every three years. Some would consider this detrimental and unsettling, Debra however considered it to be the most wonderful learning experience and opportunity a child could be given.

From about age five she knew she wanted to be an artist. Debra, joined the John Audubon Society in order to learn how to draw beautiful birds, and each of her family dogs became studies in art. At age twelve her family was transferred to England – this was the beginning of her life’s dream to become an artist. Immediately after graduating from High School in Olympia, Washington she returned to England to attend Art College, received a BA in Information Graphics from Harrow College of Art & Technology, and began her 27-year-long career as an Art Editor, Book Designer, and Art Director in the field of adult and children’s publishing.

Debra’s favorite color has always been Green and therefore it has been a natural lead in to promoting awareness to our planet’s precarious state with a hint of humor thrown in for good measure. Debra is thrilled to be working with RideMagnetism.com to encourage positive changes through simple visual stimulus and reminders.

Randy Lim

Randy is a design principal at Xtremities Design. An award-winning designer, Randy is active in the Seattle Design community since graduating from the University of Washington’s Graphic Design program.

Jody Marx

Jody wanted to be a fashion designer when she was little, but she majored in painting at University of Michigan.

And although her major was painting, Jody’s first job was at Atari in Silicon Valley, designing point-of-purchase displays, hardware packaging and boxes for exciting games like PacMan and Centipede.

Today, Jody has over 30 years experience as an art director and graphic designer for print and web, and is a founding partner and graphic designer at Point North Design, a boutique graphic design agency in Seattle.

Through Point North, Jody delivers innovative design solutions from fully understanding and interpreting business goals and strategy. She specializes in branding systems, web site design, corporate identity, advertising, brochures and direct mail. Her talent and imagination brings an extra measure of style and vitality to her work.

She can be relied on to carry the production process through from concept to pre-press and has been trusted with large volume jobs, where a single miscue could cost thousands of dollars.

Jody comes through even under tight deadlines. An added benefit is the fact that Jody is a very literate person who, in the course of her work, serves as an extra proofreader with an excellent eye for spelling and punctuation errors.

Recently she started an additional business, Seattle Staging Group specializing in Real Estate Staging and Interior Design.

Stephanie Schriger

With over 20 years of graphic design experience, Stephanie’s creative talent and astute understanding of her clients’ needs have earned her a reputation for producing quality work for public and private sectors. A graduate student at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, Stephanie earned a BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and started Design & Graphics Marketing in 1997. Previously, she was the art director for the advertising and editorial departments of The Jerusalem Post for seven years. Stephanie was the founding partner of the international design firm Stephanie & Ruti Design.

Christine Thomas

Christine has spent her career trying to balance her need to do art with her need to contribute to the welfare of the people around her. Believing in her idealistic early years that “art” was a domain of the elite, she completed degrees in Theology and Psychology.

But drawing was a demanding force and so she left behind her passion to save mankind and decided to draw pictures instead. She became convinced that art can be part of everyone’s life, not something set apart for the few. Then, by chance contact, she joined the world of Public Health promotion. A match made in heaven.

She is heading into her 20th year of producing print publications designed to inform and encourage the public to look after their health. Her work, and that of her clients has earned national awards. Her home in Galveston County, Texas is full of paintings (she needs to do more) and pottery (the influence of East Tennessee) and friends’ art (from around the country). She is married to Marvin Thomas, the most wonderful (and patient) man on the planet, who seems not to mind her artsy nature. Her family and friends are jewels. Life is good and she is very happy.

David Walega

An ardent supporter of animal welfare and a proud dad of several rescue companions, David is one of the founders and director of Art for Animals' Sake.

We collaborate with artists to create exhibitions, offer limited edition prints and produce events that benefit the animal welfare community. As a graduate of the Masters of Communication in Digital Media Program at the University of Washington, he researched and produced digital media and electronic communications.

Amy Weber

As a child she toted crayons, and markers everywhere. Described as a freakishly quiet kid who saw things others did not see, she was always drawing. She earned her B.F.A. degree in Design/Illustration from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle; and an M.F.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University in New York. She taught fine art and design classes for over eight years at the college level. She has worked as a fine artist and freelance designer since 1992. Her art is sold both nationally and internationally. Her illustrations have appeared in numerous products and publications all over the world, including Magic: The Gathering and one of her favorite magazines, The Utne Reader. She lives with two blue heelers, three cats and a writer on the water in a rural area of the Pacific Northwest in what her friends describe as “the middle of nowhere,” a land of real mountains, tall trees and those that hug them, serious coffee, rain, and the salty smell of the sea. She attempts to make enough money from her art to exist and create a lot of work that will have a positive effect on this home we call Earth.