Monika Rose, AIGA, is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer located in San Jose, CA. After several stints at various Bay Area “start-ups” she decided to pursue freelance projects. After a few years as a freelancer, she realized it was time to start her own illustration and design studio. Monika has approximately 15 years of experience. Her clients include local municipalities, non-profits organizations and Independent agencies and municipalities. Her clients include NASA, The County of Santa Clara, City of San Jose Environmental Services Dept. (SJESD), The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) - CA Peninsula Chapter, International Children’s Assistance Network, Hewlett Packard (HP), Zero Graffiti International and MACLA, to name a few. She also enjoys designing for smaller businesses and corporations such as Paul J Gonzalez Art Studios, Creche Salon, This Stuff Works and Rudolf + Sletton. Monika enjoys combining her illustration and graphic art skills with graphic design layout projects. Her Graphic arts, painting and illustration work can be seen in public spaces in San Jose, including two "art boxes" and one "deco print" design for SJESD, located on the parking lot asphalt at Roosevelt Community Center. Many more illustrations she has assisted on for muralist, Paul J Gonzalez, can be seen at various local school interiors and exteriors. Her design and creative philosophy is to design on instinct. While she follows a standard design process she also listens carefully to her clients requests she uses instinct and intuition as tools to help meet her clients needs. She pays special attention to subtle implications and "reads between the lines" in order give her clients more than they asked for. She believes that when process and instinct are combined creativity is at its best.