The Big Dream Middle East 2017: There is co-existence. A lot more rain. There is a train traveling to India, implying we can travel directly through the Middle East. Many people practice yoga and are mindful.

Amit Trainin is an Illustrator and lecturer in illustration in the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel. He serves as a mentor at the Rothschild Foundation for Art. Between the years 2006-2018 he managed the Department of Visual Communication at Manshar. His works have won awards and been published in magazines and books in Israel and around the world and have been displayed in various galleries and museums, including the Museum of Islam, the Haifa Museum and more. In 2017 he created the largest illustration in the world printed on 1500 yoga mats displayed in Rabin Square Tel Aviv, in honor of a day International Yoga. Lives in Tel aviv.

“In my work, I love to deal with melancholy, angst, nature, childhood, and fantasy, my ideas often forming as I work. My name is Or ("light" in Hebrew). I've been creating things ever since I can remember, conveying thoughts, ideas, and dreams in different forms - illustration, design, prose, poetry, etc. My style of illustration is very versatile. In my work, I love to deal with melancholy, angst, nature, childhood, and fantasy, my ideas often forming as I work.”

Website: amittrainin.com | Instagram: @amittrainin

We will become less reliant on our mechanical and technological lives. We will say hello and goodbye with full presence to those we love.

Dreamer: Chapman

Cool neon lights. Blade running through life.

Eitan Marks is interested in the sea, philosophy, military history, ice cream, good wine, and darkness. Like a blend of the real and the surreal, I love strong imagery and lots of texture. My style uses collage sometimes, which reflects the reality of the dream state: bits and pieces of the real world, mixed in with our deepest fears and desires. This makes for a potent cocktail for the psyche, and thus for the art.
Website: eitanmarksdesign.com/art

I dream of a beautiful island with children from all over the world that are being helped out of the darkness.

Eyal Segal (b.1982) is an Israeli born artist with German and Indian (Cochin) roots. His work interprets remembrance, tradition of the past and the possibility of self-understanding.

Website: eyalsegal.com | Instagram: eyali_segal

Inspired by many dreams “In 30 years, even with all the technological advancements. People will stay the same. A group of erotic, egocentric, eccentric, disposable, creative, feverish people. Provocative, strange, exceptional, trendy, unique, cosmopolitan and provincial at the same time. Colorful and totally charming, that step on each other's toes, and compete for who will be the most important something. Whatever it may be. And these people, if nothing else, make it worth living."

Itzik Rennert, born in Haifa Israel, is an illustrator and a comics artist, a former member of the acclaimed “Actus” comics group. Rennert Was head of the Department of Visual Communication and of the Master's Program in Design at Shenkar, the leading art and design academy in Israel. Rennert is a sweet person.

Website: shenkar.ac.il/itzik-rennert | Instagram@itzikrennerr

A world in which imagination comes first and everyone gives themselves a little bit more time to play and dream each day. A world in which our dreams power the optimism that is needed on our
entire planet.

Combining traditional and digital magic to create pop surrealist and psychedelic hybrids of intimate and collective mythologies, he leave indeterminacy areas for the viewer's own mythology to resonate freely with it. He have explored creativity through drawing, painting, sculpture, music, animated GIFs, photo, virtual reality, 3D printing & augmented reality in urban art, and research. As an artist and illustrator, he do his best to breach through the viewer's rational mind, and widen that gate to the things on which words slip, but not feelings.

Instagram @jean.art

More inclusive, more accepting, more accessible. I am a world medalist Paralympic Latin dancer and I dream of a world where differences are celebrated, and we focus on the abilities of each person with honor and respect.

John Roi Abcede is a Philippines-based illustrator. He loves the color pink and loves to eat buffets. He is as surreal as the name of his alias The Happy Onion. He is indeed a happy person even if he has the smell of an onion.

Website: .behance.net/abcede | Instagram: @bayawdesignstudio

A town with full of flowers. I want to live in such place.

Kibo is a 22 yo French graduated artist and designer using all kind of medium to express his creativity since 4 years. Doing NFTs since 2020 Kibo is creating his own world where the character « ø » is on a journey, the O’verse.

Instagram: @kibo_designs

Values for humanity: Authentic connection, Strong, Playful, Kaizen, Curiosity.

Loulou is a London based illustrator and painter of nature, travel and quiet spaces. She aims to illustrate the gap in the busy lives of people, to provide a space for rest, observation and rumination. Small people and objects dwarfed by their surroundings feature in many of her artworks, as a reminder of how small we are in the universe.

Website: illoustration.com | Instagram: @_illoustration

Creativity is the only superpower that won't be replaced by robots. We have the freedom to create with anyone from anywhere.

Melanie Ottenstein is from Rockville Maryland. She received a BFA for her major in Fibers and minor in Printmaking at Savannah College of Art and Design. Melanie has always been drawn to natural and tactile materials using hands-on processes. Inspired by female artists such as Kiki Smith and Yayoi Kusama, she strives to blend the difference between art and the artist. Ideas of growth and strength are at the core of her work, which she explores through her process. Melanie works with natural dyeing, print and pattern, printmaking, and collage. I do not limit myself to one medium, and that freedom of process allows me to create an idea using anything at my finger times. I like to play with the concept of reality, and nothing toys more with that idea than a dream. Using collage, paint, printmaking, and photography allows me to expand an idea that is personal by creating dynamic tactile layers. Dreams conjure themselves in a surreal manner, I like to create an atmosphere where these dreams can come to reality in a physical form.

Instagram: @wat3rm3lani3

That our environmental dreams won’t simply be a dream and that we will each be able to freely explore this world for many generations to come.

or Rosenstein is a self-employed graphic designer, illustrator and content developer based in Tel Aviv.

Website: or-rosenstein.com

Dreamer: Limor, Seattle

That many more who are fortunate will enable those less so to give them wings in order to fly

Dreamer: Danny, Portland

I live in Oregon. I love Tomatoes. I dream of going to Mars and eating tomatoes all day.

Website: or-rosenstein.com | Instagram: @mamzer

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world; it is not just one city block. Niklas Zennstrom. Artist’s interpretation: "I read this quote and the first thought that occurred to me is what is talent? What makes people different. In my point of view talent is imagination; no matter where are you from in the world, it is all about how far you will imagine and work with your imagination and make things simply different."

Sagi Arad is a Digital design, branding & illustrations specialist.

Website: sagiarad.com | Instagram: @mamzer

A World with Clean Air, Water & Soil. I wish that people and companies chose more sustainable options in life. They will use reusable and clean energy, produce less trash by reusing and recycling, use less water and plant more trees. For humans, animals and plants to all live a healthier and happier life together.

After a school graduation Tamoonz was enrolled to Tbilisi State Academy of arts, degree with a Major in ‘Media Art Graphic design’. From the early age she was fascinated by Graffiti and street art. As a little girl she was dreaming of a big walls to paint. International street-art festivals started to invite her to participate starting in 2012. Tamoonz does not have one specific style: Hers is a set of ever-evolving skills in illustration, and fine and digital arts with the constant desire to paint and express her inner world.

Website: tamoonz.com | Instagram: @tamoonz

We will all live together in harmony. Creating community cooperation and the integration of cultures alongside ecology which is expressed in flowering gardens on the rooftops. Colourful cities around the world.

Moran and Or Yogev are 2 out of 4 brother and sisters. Born and raised by the northern part of Israel, at Kibutz Dan, where they were surrounded by green nature and flowing rivers, which is the main inspiration to their artwork.

Website: behance.net/moranyo | Instagram: @moran.yogev