Diana Sudyka is an illustrator and printmaker living and working in the Chicago area. Her printmaking background includes working as master printer for studios such as Big Cat Press in Chicago, and Landfall Press (now located in Santa Fe, New Mexico). Currently she creates illustration work for everything from books, album artwork, screenprinted rock posters, to watercolors for her natural history blog The Tiny Aviary that documents her experience volunteering 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. Most recent books illustrated include "The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilious Journey", and the upcoming "The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma".

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.