Elke Kramer

Elke Kramer is a Sydney-based graphic designer, illustrator, jewellery designer, art-director and flower picker. Her love of all things peculiar lends itself to her curious, decorative and elaborate creative work. Working freelance across a multitude of mediums such as fashion textiles, website art-direction, magazine illustration and much more, always evident is her distinctive bizarre, marvelous and self-indulgent touch.

Establishing her unique vision through the art-direction of cult, art/fashion zine; Lilacmenace (2003-2004), she was heralded as one of “the Hot List” in Sunday magazines, 2005, list of top 100 people/places/things.

Influenced by psychedelic folk music, the textiles of Zandra Rhodes, orchids, jellyfish and her boyfriends excessive 50s porcelain animal collection, these eclectic inspirations can be seen throughout her most recent projects, including; yardage and t-shirts prints for New Zealand’s Mala Brajkovic (www.malabrajkovic.com), a 4-page illustration for Dazed and Confused Japan, backdrop artwork for the Holly Throsby and Joanna Newsom tour, website art-direction for Alice Euphemia (www.aliceeuphemia.com) and RUSSH magazine (www.russhaustralia.com) and guest illustrator for Yen magazine (Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2006).