Parcai Designs is excited to announce that artist and award-winning children’s book illustrator, Suse MacDonald has joined their team. Suse’s colorful designs are playful and inspiring, perfect for a variety of products. A prolific illustrator and Caldecott Honoree, Suse has illustrated numerous books for top tier publishing houses, but her delightful artwork has only recently been available in the licensing market. You can find more details about Suse MacDonald and her work at www.ParcaiDesigns.com.

WHITE PLAINS, NY, May 20, 2013 –The Grand Prize winner in the 2013 designext® international student competition organized annually by SURTEX®, the leading trade show for the art and design market, is Hye Jung In of Seoul, Korea, a December graduate in Textile Design at the Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA).

White Plains, NY, May 14, 2013 – Following a hiatus, SURTEX® welcomes the return of its popular cruise on the show’s opening night, Sunday, May 19, 2013. The leading trade show for the art and design market once again welcomes designers, art buyers and licensees aboard the Destiny yacht for an evening of casual networking and spectacular sight-seeing.

2013 brings the launch of Nicole’s first licensed fabric collections through Hoffman California Fabrics. “Dashing All the Way”, featuring stick ponies, ornaments and traditional greens, and “Bolts and Bots”, a retro inspired group of robots and gears were both designed for Hoffman as part of it’s Spring 2013 Screenprint Collection. The new designs will be shown this spring at Quilt Market as Nicole celebrates her first anniversary in business.

Portland, Oregon, April 24, 2013 – On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, art licensing industry guru Paul Brent, will be the featured guest on the Art Licensing Info Ask Call. This will be Brent’s forth year to no only answer questions submitted by artists, but also provide insights on trends in the art licensing industry and a review of the SURTEX trade show.

WHITE PLAINS, NY, May 10, 2013 – Charting the future for retail and mastering the language of color are vital topics for participants in the art and design market attending SURTEX®, the leading trade show for the art and design market, to be held May 19-21 in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

Aspen, Colo. (April 11, 2013) — Artist Tori Mitas Campisi will debut her soulful, happy art and complete licensing portfolio under the studio name TORi DESiGNWoRKS™ at SURTEX in New York, May 19-21, 2013. The prolific painter’s digital portfolio features works originally hand-painted using oil on canvas and infuses universal, on-trend themes that explode with optimism. All work will be on display in SURTEX booth number 566. More about TORi DESiGNWoRKS is available at toridesignworks.com.

White Plains, NY, May 07, 2013 -- Four surface design students ready to launch their careers have been named winners of the designext® international student competition organized annually by SURTEX®, the leading trade show for the art and design market.

April 26, 2013- Debbie Taylor-Kerman’s sophisticated, whimsical art has developed into an extensive program since she began licensing in 2001.

April 24, 2013- Parcai Designs is excited to announce that artist Zeyn Eroler has joined their team. Zeyn’s distinctive artworks are strikingly unique and original. Her body of work inspires a sense of wonder and resolution between geometric design and abstraction; imparting a remarkable new kind of pictorial content. Highly passionate about her work, Zeyn has an innate sense of style that renders her creations current and appealing as well as commercially viable.