Julie Parker

I’m an artist and illustrator with a background in advertising and graphic design. I was born in Boston and spent most of my career in New York as a designer and brand developer for everything from handbags to shampoo bottles. I’ve worked with Target, Nordstrom, Sephora and Pottery Barn and designed a tote for MoMA’s Design Store. My early tools of the trade were exploding rapidographs, gelatinous rubber cement and toxic Bestine thinner. Then I spent a million hours in front of a Mac. Now I float between drawing on my iPad and rediscovering how much I love graphite and paint, although I often find choosing a drawing surface a challenge.

I studied painting and design at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and attended Milton Glaser’s Wednesday night design classes. Ideas and inspiration come from everywhere . . . the patterns of Sonia Delaunay, the cartoony paintings of Joan Brown, the brilliant cartoony cartoons of Roz Chast and Saul Steinberg and the paintings and storytelling of Maira Kalman. I love to put words and pictures together.

Please check back as I will be telling some stories here.