Masha D’yans grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. Much of her childhood was spent playing in the snow and the city’s grand baroque palaces, sharing funny stories, and making things out of found materials (a near necessity at the time). Some years and geo-political zones later, that same improvisational spirit, scrappy imagination, and playful curiosity continue to motivate much of her life and work. Masha comes from three generations of kickass female artists and a nuclear physicist dad. She also picked up some tips and tricks from the following rigorous schools: Life (the school of), St. Petersburg Academic Art Lyceum and the Cooper Union in NY, from which she holds a BFA. The rest, of course, was pieced together from the internet.

After graduating, Masha worked as an art director in advertising and design firms but she never forgot her love of paining. She started a greeting card line to feature her watercolor works inspired by nature, fairy tales, Japan and her refusal to grow up. The cards quickly caught the attention of taste-makers like Barneys NY, Louis Boston and Fred Segal. With contributions from Masha’s rebel artist and fashion designer mom, today Masha D’yans Design offers sendable art and more for playful free-thinkers at masha.com and in shops internationally.

In addition to her own line, Masha has been designing pop-up holiday cards for MoMA as well as calendars for Rizzoli. She’s done t-shirts and home collections for Urban Outfitters and Garnet Hill among others. Check out her work at masha.com. You can also shop her picture books on Amazon.com, her home decor items at http://society6.com/MashaDyans
and clothing at http://printallover.me/collections/mashadyans

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