Maira Kalman – Adobe MAX 2015 – Community Inspires Creativity | Adobe Creative Cloud

Maira Kalman, illustrator and writer, talks to the Adobe MAX audience about her latest work. How New York City and her family, and mom especially, inspire her amazing illustrations. Watch Maira show off her work with humor and love.

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. She now lives in Manhattan.

Maira has written and illustrated Eighteen children’s books, including Ooh-­‐la-­‐la-­‐Max in Love, What Pete Ate, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, 13 WORDS, a collaboration with Lemony Snicket, Why We Broke Up, with Daniel Handler, Looking at Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything.

She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the “New Yorkistan” cover in 2001 and “The New York City Sub-­‐Culinary Map.” Maira is currently creating an illustrated column for The New Yorker based on travels to museums and libraries.

http://www.mairakalman.com/

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