DESIGNS
ABOUT
Inspired by vulnerability, natural decay, rudimentary folk art, and multi-cultural kitsch, I evoke personality in my work. I find joy in utilizing textures, challenging color combinations, embracing accidental marks, and harnessing an opportunity for broad strokes.
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Tyler Wilson is a Chicago-based designer. He graduated from University Missouri Kansas City with an MFA degree in Costume Design and Technology before working as a professor at Wake Forest University filling the Post-Graduate Design Fellowship.
He then moved back to Chicago where worked as a production artist with one of Chicago's most affluent event companies until the pandemic.
He currently works out of his in-home studio making textiles, illustrating for publications and fostering a freelance career.
PUBLICATION
VARIOUS COSTUME RENDERINGS
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THE ART AND PRACTICE OF COSTUME DESIGN
HOLLY POE DURBIN
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