Championing creativity at New York’s big reopening.
This September, Creatively is celebrating the vibrant, diverse creatives in our community whose imagination, skill, and ambition make all of our lives brighter and more enjoyable. In just over a year, 200,000 creatives have joined Creatively to showcase their portfolios, connect with one another, and find jobs. More than 1,400 companies are now using the job platform for creatives to find creators for full-time and freelance jobs.
Starting this week, we’re bringing some of the most exciting artists on Creatively to the streets of New York City, cheering on the city’s big fall reopening with stunning works by Broadie, Amber Vittoria, Tyler Spangler, Mulan Fu, Adrien Saporiti, and Friend and Nemesis. Get a sneak peek at the campaign creative below, and follow these artists on Creatively to see more of their latest work.
What’s more, Creatively will pop up in secret locations all over the city during the much-anticipated return of New York Fashion Week. Follow along on Instagram @hellocreatively for all the details!
Broadie
Broadie is a graphic artist from the Greater D.C. area who blends his skills in graphic design with his love of mixed media. His artwork of Stacey Abrams went viral during election season and took his following to new heights, as his work was shared by A-list celebrities and major platforms. Broadie challenges the boundaries of traditional mixed media art using square color schemes, along with various techniques that incorporate digital painting, vector, 3D, and photo-manipulations. He draws his inspiration from the richness of Black culture—the past, present and possibilities of the future.
Amber Vittoria
Amber Vittoria is an illustrator and painter based in New York City. Her work centers on the portrayal of women within art—featuring colorful illustrations that play with the idea of femininity and the feminine form, including overtly extended limbs and playfully rounded features. In a painting series called “How We Carry Ourselves,” for example, women are represented as colorful swirls of paint with little heads and feet, with titles like “Fancy for FaceTime” and “My Posture is Perfect.” Her creative style has earned her mint collaborators like NBC, Warby Parker, Gucci, The New York Times, and Instagram, as well as a nod from Forbes, which included her on its “30 Under 30” list in 2020. Vittoria’s recent work has taken a digital turn: “I’ve been exploring the digital aspect of my works,” she says, “and how the bold, colorful lines in turn inform my paintings.”
Tyler Spangler
Tyler Spangler is a digital artist based in Seattle, Washington. Through his work, he plays with color and animation, often interposing bright color with aged black and white photos to create an eye-catching, pop-meets-surreal effect. His dazzling work has won him an impressive roster of clients including Chanel, Instagram, Nike, and Starbucks. He describes his way of working as “a bit obsessive”; at one point, he created as many as 2,000 pieces in a single year.
Mulan Fu
Mulan Fu is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, and illustrator based in New York City. Her commercial work ranges from 2D animation, motion graphics, and illustration to animated production creative development. As a storyteller, Fu is intrigued by the visual richness of Chinese mythologies and the emotional depth of touching familial stories. She aims to explore and promote the Chinese cultural identity through charming and unique tales that have the potential to bridge cultural differences. Growing up in Asia and studying abroad in Europe and North America, she finds passion in discovering captivating stories along her travels and sharing them with the world through the magical medium of animation. Fu is currently “exploring interactive media and its combination with animated content” at her master’s program at Columbia University, as well as working in the Chinese feature animation industry as part of the development team at Pearl Studio (Abominable, Over the Moon).
Adrien Saporiti
Adrien Saporiti is a Nashville native who currently splits his time between his hometown and Portland, Oregon. The son of a Vietnamese oil painter and a musician from South Boston, Saporiti believes his unique upbringing, coupled with growing up biracial in the American South, gives his work a distinct aesthetic and sense of storytelling. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, Saporiti founded an apparel company and began creating street art around Nashville; most notably the now iconic, I BELIEVE IN NASHVILLE symbol. What’s Saporiti working on now? “I’m preparing for a show in Nashville in October, creating a collection that will be dropping in November, and working on getting a series of art prints and the second series of my ‘I Must Belong Somewhere’ prints ready to drop next month.”
Friend and Nemesis
Friend and Nemesis is a one-stop creative collective based in Philadelphia. The husband and wife duo, photographer Andreas Billig and designer Kristy Lee, embraced the idea of bringing their creative talents of photography, styling, and design into a common frame through shared mediums. Inspired by the circus and carnival fairs, the concept of different mediums working together was their anchor. The vision was to create a brand that would showcase personalities and characters with a candid and non-judgmental approach. The brand originated in London with a photo series, and they later launched Friend and Nemesis in Brooklyn with a collection of jewelry and accessories photographed in their narrative style.