Anderson Design Group

True South Puzzle Company's first series features the work of the Anderson Design Group—a full-service design firm specializing in hand-rendered design and illustration. A few years ago, they began creating poster art to showcase their hometown of Nashville, Tennessee—all rendered in a classic time-honored style of the golden age of poster art. The Spirit of Nashville Collection, as it became known, was a smashing success, and this award-winning series of classic poster art has won international acclaim. Fueled by the popularity of the Music City designs, they have gone on to create several new lines of prints that celebrate other American cities national parks, coastal living, vintage advertising themes, and international travel destinations. Each of the hand-illustrated designs is created and printed with pride in Nashville. 

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Betsy Beier

Betsy earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing at University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA in Computer Graphics and Interaction Design at Pratt Institute, New York City. She left the corporate world in 2006 to raise her family and explore her own design style. When her children were young, she built a thriving online invitation and party goods business that celebrated everyday life. 

In 2013, she transitioned her energy to focus on illustration work. Wanderlust Designer has brought her back to her 2 passions, drawing and exploring the world.  She loves to create illustrations that celebrate experiences and cultures from around the globe or right at home

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Evie Coates

Evie Coates is a Nashville native who is in her 18^th year of teaching art at The Ensworth School. While there’s no other place she’d rather call home, Evie has always been inspired by travel, her best companions being the kind with pages. When one sees her sketchbooks full of map-drawing, quick renderings, and taped-in ephemera, it’s like the streets of Paris, the wooded paths of northern California, or the sandy beaches of the Florida Gulf open up right before you. Evie’s lettering, pencil drawings, and watercolors hang on walls throughout her hometown and beyond. Oh, and that feline friend, that’s Sylvie, Evie’s studio mate and faithful muse. Sylvie prides herself on stepping delicately around bottles of ink and trays of paint, but she also loves to take little sips from Evie's watercolor cup. 

Ligia Teodosiu 

Ligia Teodosiu is an award winning designer and illustrator who was has proud to call Nashville, Tennessee home for over seven years and is now a resident of Colorado. Born in Romania but raised in the United States, Ligia showed a natural aptitude for art and illustration from an early age. It wasn’t until much later that she realized her obsession and turned down graduate school to pursue design and illustration. Ligia enjoys working in a variety of styles, the challenge of solving design problems, and is never found far from a good cup of coffee.

Lili Chin

Lili Chin is an artist well known for her globally popular dog art. As the founder of Doggie Drawings, she provides custom illustration and a catalog of art products for sale.
Lili Chin's dog behavior infographics have become a popular tool for dog training professionals, veterinarians, behaviorists, and welfare groups who advocate for humane animal training methods. Her book - Doggie Language: A Dog Lover's Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend - is a bestseller that is being translated to 15 languages.  Lili is Malaysia-born and currently lives in Los Angeles where she obsesses over modern board games, cooking, behavior science, and her two newly-adopted kitties. 

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Lucie Rice 

Lucie Rice is an award  winning illustrator and designer who has been creating whimsical and modern imagery professionally for over 10 years. Although her work can be found in print and web internationally, after moving to Nashville in 2007, Rice was compelled to create for a local audience. Inspired by the natural beauty, architecture, nightlife and music that make Nashville so special, she has recently created a series of designs that celebrate our fair city. Offered in print and note card form, this collection features both the iconic landmarks and the small, sometimes  quirky, businesses and neighborhoods that give the city its charm.

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Nate Padavick

Nate Padavick specializes in map design and illustration. His maps have been reproduced in books, magazines, newspapers, posters, websites, and apps, as well as on beer cans, walls, greeting cards, and even dishware.

Nate lives and draws in New York. He loves to take long bike rides, hike in the mountains, go on fun vacations, swim in ponds, cook good food, and shop at farmer's markets.

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Paris Woodhull

A born and raised Knoxvillian, Paris Woodhull’s heart will always be in her hometown. She showed a love for drawing at an early age and even won her first art award as a 6-year-old at the county fair (Wow! What a bigshot!) Paris is now as a full time artist that offers a range of freelance illustration services along with a line of product that includes apparel/paper goods. She received her BFA in 2D art with a concentration in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She loves bold color, pattern, pop culture, portraiture, fashion, and is fueled by copious amounts of coffee + cuddles from her two kitties. 

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Scott Schiller

Scott is a trained biologist and former zookeeper who then became a graphic designer and art director.  He currently specializes in illustrated maps with a special focus on nature and scientific themes.  His work as been featured in print and digital in books, magazines, exhibit displays, posters and tourism and marketing materials.  Hi is inspired by travel and the outdoors, and enjoys the process of discovering and experimenting with a wide range of styles and techniques. 

Scott lives near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and when not making maps he is probably mountain biking, visiting lighthouses or playing with his cat, Luna.

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Tenn Hens Design

Tenn Hens is a graphic design studio specializing in unique paper goods, branding, and marketing materials.  Bonnie & Currier's artistic style and advertising background combine to help create timeless, thoughtful pieces. Started in 2005, one of the niches they've hatched are custom invitations that include their hand-drawn artwork. They adore watercolors, pretty paper, vintage postage, and all the details that make up the perfect package.

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Valerie Hamill

Valerie Hamill is a Bay Area artist inspired by everything around her, from the mundane to the magical. While in graduate school for organic chemistry, she realized that art was her true love, but that love doesn’t always pay the rent! She spent four years in the Czech Republic studying illustration at the Prague Academy of Applied Arts, and later illustrated for international publishers. She loves making edgy/silly stories and drawings inspired by history and just ordinary life. Her dream is to illustrate Herodotus.

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