NINA EDWARDS
Nina Edwards' ”Metropolitan City Fashion Mask” and ”Black Women Matter” series that she created during this difficult time, We would like you to appreciate these exquisite beauty that for societal concerned.
Nina’s illustration is cosmopolitan, and responds to national trends. Issues in NYC can influence the world; “Black Lives Matter” has led to global awareness of institutionalized racism. The coronavirus has led to required wearing of face masks, and thus generated an international fashion which in Nina's hand reveals motifs of culture and national icon. Nina is from Taiwan, where she was born and grew up in unique Hakka culture. Now she inhabits the sea of diversity and dynamism that is the metropolitan culture of NY. She catches the fashion trend which is part of pop culture, but also her illustrations mingle the of model’s movement, posture, as well as the environment.
Nina Edwards is a fashion illustrator based in New York City. She studied illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology where she earned her BFA degree. She continued for to an MFA at California State University, Fullerton. Her work has appeared in major publications in the U.S., Taiwan, UK, and Japan. Nina is also an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute where she teaches Introduction to Fashion Illustration and Creative Careers. Her work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, and art galleries, and on licensing products. Her national client list includes many familiar names: Art Hearts Fashion Week, Style Fashion Week, New York Garment District Alliance, Scholastic, Bridal Guide Magazine, Girls’ Life, Seventeen, Sweet 16, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Gap, Banana Republic, Minika Ko, EVA Air, Target, Madison Park Greetings, the Gift Wrap Company, Design Design, Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond, and Taipei Economics and Culture Center in New York. During NY Fashion week, she was invited by the Style Fashion Week producer to do live fashion portraits for the guests and models during fashion shows, and she is also a regular fashion illustration contributor for the official New York Fashion Week magazine. She has also been invited by various locations of the NYC Apple Store to demonstrate how to use simple sketching apps to create amazing digital fashion illustrations. She has been active in graphic design, advertising, editorial illustration, greeting card, and social expression for nearly 20 years. Her expertise includes digital and watercolor illustrations, especially integrating opposing elements such as traditional and modern, Eastern and Western, and art and technology into her illustrations and designs.
Nina published a fashion and branding book “From Fantasy To Reality: How To Make Your Creative Dreams Come True In Style” in 2019 in Taipei and had 8 successful book signing events there plus more in New York City.
來自繁華紐約的Nina Edwards是位住在紐約的臺裔美籍時尚插畫家，在美國時尚廣告和文創界有二十多年工作教學及策展經驗。目前她在世界馳名的紐約普瑞特藝術學院（Pratt Institute）教授時尚和數位插畫課程，同時也是紐約時裝週駐場時尚插畫家、 紐約大都會博物館舉世聞名的時尚奧斯卡開幕活動MET GALA邀請插畫家、 2019年日本插畫協會世界百大插畫家之一、 美國蘋果電腦公司（Apple Store）紐約第五大道旗艦店特約數位時尚插畫講師、 紐約時裝區聯盟協會（Garment District Alliance）2017和2018年代表時尚藝術家、 以及聯合國NPO組織世界氣候藝術創作比賽臺灣代表評審；她的時尚週邊商品在母校紐約流行設計大學（Fashion Institute Of Technology）內的精品店出售，以及數張作品被收錄在世界頂尖時尙揷畫家精選Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration和The Beautiful書籍裡。
Nina擅長將傳統與現代丶東方與西方丶文化與科技丶藝術與生活等看似對立或相異的元素，巧妙而和諧地融入插畫設計中；她筆下的時尚女孩充滿活力、幽默和自信，沒有時髦女性傲嬌冷酷的態度，而是充滿都市熱情色彩的city girls。 留學和旅居過舊金山、 洛杉磯、紐約、巴黎、 倫敦、 劍橋、 翡冷翠、台北等歐美亞洲各大文化之都，Nina將這些多國藝術、文化、歷史、生活經驗所帶來源源不斷豐沛靈感，將它們激發出無限想像，以水彩和電腦為發揮題材，捕捉住現代都會女性的性感與情慾。 此次「大都會時尚Metropolitan Fashion」插畫特展將一些她在新書《跟紐約時尚插畫教授學頂尖創意：從風格建立、品牌經營到國際圖像授權，實踐藝術工作夢想》內的一些代表性的插畫以博物館規格高解析度輸出，加上水彩和鉛筆手繪完稿，以完美的時尚藝術呈現在大眾之前。
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