Elaine Maier is a designer and illustrator living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is originally from Chicago, where she studied commercial art and fashion illustration at Ray-Vogue College of Design. Elaine has been fortunate to have worked in a wide variety of markets, including greeting cards and stationery, giftware, retail advertising, and t-shirt design. For much of her career she has worked free-lance from her home. She is blessed to have two grown sons, and currently shares her home with a menagerie of pets.