Niki Ling was born and raised in Canton, China. Before becoming a freelance illustrator, she had been worked as a graphic designer for two years after four years commercial art design university courses and she got a bachelor degree after graduation. It was amazing for her to realize that she actually extremely enjoys and loves creating illustrations and this is the part she is full of passion. 

Meanwhile, graphic design helps her to work on some parts of creating 

illustrations. Almost at the same time she is working tirelss in a series of illustrations just like what she does right now. 

Niki draws insipration from everything, but especially fairy tales, animation, literature and art, fantastic and dark matters,movies, music, issues of the whole world, life attitudes, world cultures. Besides, Niki has long been fascinated by stories and characters, she also really likes to create characters and it is always exciting to infuse personalities into them and make them unique.

Niki’s painting style includes colorful, adorable, positive and full of information. She specializes in tradition paintings and character designs. Niki always likes discovering new things and she can always get a surprise from all of those new things.

In the year of 2009, Niki’s artworks were showcased in the Illustrative 2009 of Berlin and the ad-tech 2009 of Beijing. Niki had some digital illustration works in 2008, You could find her past digital artworks from a Taiwan magazine which calls “Illustraion Design Fair306″. In the year of 2010, Niki’s newest artworks are just showcased in a huge event which called YODEX(Taipei), Ad:Tech(Singapore) and ADC/One Show Ceremony(New York); Besides, Niki’s works will be showcased more in the upcoming months of this 2010, the upcoming one will be in OFFF(Paris).

Niki would love to write and illustrate her own children’s book someday… 

Numéro No.144 June / July 2013

Photographer: Anthony Maule

Styling: Samuel Francois

Hair: Laurent Philippon

Makeup: Hugo Villard

Numéro No.144 June/July 2013

Photographer: Greg Kadel 

Stylist: Bill Mullen

Hair: Ward Stegerhoek

Makeup: Mariel Barerra

Nails: Alicia Torello

Production: Ernesto Qualizza

Model: Kremi Otashliyska

I strongly believe that businesses and artists can benefit a lot from working together. Not only does it give artists a platform to perform on – and being paid for it, it does provide businesses with more visibility, better image and improved chance for sales. And it’s good for local communities, too!

Additionally organizations – both the commercial and the art/cultural ones – can optimize their public relation efforts by teaming up on using tools and providing content. That’s especially true for smaller endeavors.

Enabling and organizing this as well as providing visuals, knowledge and IT tools for it – this is what MI-KU does.

As a Photo Designer (fancy name for a photographer primarily dealing with B2B) I’m focusing on digital photography and post production.

Artistically I strive to liberate from merely depicting things to forming visuals showing alternative realities with only little obligation to the real world.

Together with my wife I’ve founded AKIA, a cultural association, to further promote digital art and encourage artist to work together in inter-disciplinary project.”

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