Holiday Elves

After growing up in Bend, Oregon, and Sacramento, California, musician Don Clark started a band and toured the country. In the late 1990s, he transitioned to the world of graphic design. In 2006, Clark and his brother Ryan founded Seattle design and illustration studio Invisible Creature. IC has worked with clients such as Target, NASA, LEGO, Nike, Adobe, XBox, The New York Times, Wired, and MTV. Music packaging designed by the studio has been nominated for four Grammy Awards. Invisible Creature also designs and curates its own line of toys and products for both children and adults.

Dragons (2018), Clark's first project for the U.S. Postal Service, was followed by Holiday Elves (2022).

Antonio Alcalá served on the Postmaster General’s Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 2010 until 2011, when he left to become an art director for the U.S. Postal Service's stamp development program.

After working as a book designer and freelance graphic designer, Alcalá opened Studio A in 1988.  Since then his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national, and international design institutions including AIGA, Print, Communication Arts, and Graphis. His clients include: the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Phillips Collection, and Smithsonian Institution.

Alcalá is an adjunct faculty member of the Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA program in graphic design, and founder of the design education program DesignWorkshops.  He served on the board of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association and is a past president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.  The AIGA DC Chapter selected Alcalá as its 2008 AIGA Fellow.  His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design.

Alcalá graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design.  He lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.