Hello there, I’m Elinda!

A lifelong lover of storytelling and eye-catching color, Elinda Xiao is a Chicago-based lifestyle illustrator specializing in visual journalism and editorial illustration for publication. She has a BFA in Illustration Design and a minor in Social Innovation from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, and is currently based in Chicago.

Inspired by twentieth-century editorial art but with a future-forward eye, Elinda’s work is intricately drawn, incorporating mediums such as gouache, ink, and watercolor with digital illustration to create a retro-inspired but distinctly modern “tradigital” style. 

Beyond art, Elinda enjoys yoga, film photography, and reading the Wikipedia articles of TV shows she promised her friends she would actually watch.✿