If you feel like you've seen Jess's art somewhere, it's probably because you have! Jess's art has appeared in many publications and on countless apparel, stationary, and tableware products in major retailers across the world. Blending hand-made and digital techniques, Jess's distinctive style is a organic combination of flowing shapes, floral motifs, and lush color palettes. Described as a "unique hybrid of illustration and surface design", her surface design clients love that she approaches projects with the hand-made feel of an Illustrator, and illustration clients love that she brings a strong sense of rhythm and design to illustration assignments.

Jess graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2003 with a BFA in Illustration. While living in NYC, she worked in the publishing industry as an in-house freelance designer in the children’s book departments at Henry Holt, Scholastic, & HarperCollins. She also worked for several years as a textile designer selling her designs to some of the world’s top manufacturers. After leaving the city for the surreal life of the 'burbs, Jess plunged into illustration as a full-time career and has been running her own business ever since. She now works extensively in the publishing, fashion, tableware, and stationary industries creating illustrations and surface designs for clients across the world. Clients and licensees love her keen eye for trend, cohesive design collections, and fresh color palettes.

Jess is also behind the iconic and instantly recognizable brand of royalty-free doodles known as blue67design. Her royalty-free images, including her Sketchy Doodles, Notebook Doodles, and Henna Doodles, have been licensed well over 150,000 times and appeared on countless products, webpages, and more across the world.

Forever the entrepreneur, Jess also works closely with her illustrator/character designer husband Erik DePrince, creating original content licensing properties for television, toys, games and other products. The new pre-school property Playtime Buddies™, created by Erik and co-developed by Jess is currently in production with 52 13 minute episodes.

Besides creating, Jess enjoys games, chocolate, discovering new (and old) music, all things science fiction, and (most of all!) spending time with her family. A native of Connecticut, Jess currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and their two children.

Read a lovely little interview with Jess in HOW magazine!

Contact Me

Got a project? Let's get started!
studio: 609.280.0497
email: jess [at] jessvolinski [dot] com