Jade Purple Brown’s illustrations center around powerful women and positive vibes. Inspired by ’70s color combinations, her designs tend to stick to colors like orange, red, yellow, and green, adding a nostalgic flavor to her otherwise contemporary images.
“I love collecting ’70s interior design books for inspiration,” admitted Brown in an interview with Design Milk, stating her sources of inspiration. “The over-the-top colorful palettes, quirky motifs, and the overall carefree attitude of the ’70s excite me, and those are elements that I like to bring into my work.”
Color, as it turns out, is front and center in her designs, a fact that also comes across in her chosen moniker. “My name was actually given to me by a friend who was trying to figure out my middle name,” she relayed. “She jokingly guessed Purple since my first and last name already happen to be colors. I loved the way Jade Purple Brown sounded, so I decided to use it as my artist name. My name is a clear depiction of my work: colorful, strong, and unique.”
Based in New York, Brown collaborates with fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands, working as an illustrator and graphic designer, as well as an art director. Her bold, and oftentimes digital illustrations, are aimed at encouraging herself and others to be more optimistic and free. And with clients like Apple, Facebook, Sephora, and Google, her optimism is very much contagious.
