Diana Sudyka lives and works in the Chicago area. She initially worked as a master printer for Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick at Big Cat Press, and at Landfall Press, until getting a Masters of Fine Art from Northwestern University. She then worked with archives including the John M. Wing History of Printing and Book Arts Collection at Chicago's Newberry Library. Currently, she works as a full time illustrator, creating work for everything from book covers, album artwork, screenprinted rock posters, to watercolors for her avian blog, The Tiny Aviary, that documents her volunteer work for the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. Some bands that she has created posters for include: The Decemberists, Feist, Iron and WIne, Andrew Bird, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam and Tortoise. Chicago has a great printing tradition and community and she's proud to have ink under her fingernails.

Client List:
Andrew Bird
Chicago Metro
Chicago Tribune
EMI Records, UK
Featherproof Books
Folio Society
HarperCollins Publishers
Intercontinental Hotels
Little,Brown Publishers (Hachette Group USA)
Payseur & Schmidt Publishers
Poetry Magazine
Richard Goodall Gallery
Schuba's Tavern

About the Etching and Screenprints:
Etching is a form of intaglio. In intaglio, various techniques are employed to create grooves and rough textured areas in a plate of soft metal, such as copper or zinc. Most of the etchings on this site are made on copper by drawing with a needle into a coating of a tar-like substance called asphaltum. The exposed copper is then etched by a chemical solution such as ferric chloride. All screenprints are designed and printed by me at the Bird Machine in Chicago. All editions of etchings and screenprints are never reprinted, so once they are gone, they're gone.

This site was created by the lovely Andy Farkas.