The illustration industry in Rhode Island is defined by a diverse pool of firms, each carving out unique niches within the field. These companies range from full-service design shops that oversee projects from inception to completion, to creative agencies mastering in branding, web design, and development. They offer a wide array of services including graphic design, website design, photography, and much more. Immersed in the digital era, these companies are constantly innovating to match the dynamic trends and landscaping the future of Rhode Island's illustration industry.


Top 22 illustration companies in Rhode Island

1. Mattie Wells Design

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2. Second Stage Studio

Second Stage Studio is a creative agency specializing in branding, web design, and development.


3. KS Designs

  • Website: ksdesignsri.com
  • Headquarters: Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 11-50

KS Designs, LLC is a full-service creative business that handles projects from concept to completion. They specialize in all aspects of design, including print coordination, graphic design, website design, photography, and more.


4. studio amd

  • Website: studioamd.com
  • Headquarters: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 1992
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Studio AMD is a creative agency that specializes in Painting + Motion projects.


5. Meridian Printing

Meridian Printing is a premier print shop on the East Coast that offers high-quality print services. With a focus on craftsmanship and innovation, they transform paper and ink into photo books, art books, and museum pieces. Their experienced team utilizes technology to create seamless collateral that enhances the printing experience. Meridian Printing is known for delivering excellent results and providing a hands-on approach, making them a trusted business partner for all printing needs.


6. Riverzedge Arts

Riverzedge Arts is an organization that specializes in art and design. They offer paid, work-based learning opportunities for teens to create art and design products for real-world clients. Their services include graphic design, screen printing, public art, and media arts. Their mission is to teach art, design, and critical thinking to the youth of northern RI, providing a path to economic and cultural sustainability. They have studios for graphic design, public art, and media arts, and they also offer print and design services for apparel and stationery.


7. Graphic Solutions for Business, Inc.

  • Website: gsfb.net
  • Headquarters: Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 1998
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Graphic Solutions for Business, Inc. is a marketing communications agency specializing in packaging design, POP/POS materials, company identities, and collateral material. Our designs are created from an informed imagination. We conduct knowledge-based research to reach our goal of getting our clients noticed and influencing a positive action for their success. Our talented staff and structured production process provide attentive and efficient support in a variety of services that include design, photography, and LINX Premedia.


8. PiekosArts

  • Website: piekosarts.com
  • Headquarters: East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 11-50

Piekos Arts is a graphic design company that specializes in creating high-quality comic book fonts, lettering, and artwork.


9. Rhode Island School of Design

  • Website: risd.edu
  • Headquarters: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 1877
  • Headcount: 501-1000
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RISD is a renowned art and design school offering a wide range of courses and programs for students and professionals. They provide a diverse range of visual arts and design disciplines, both traditional and digital, along with programs related to art and design. With experienced faculty and a rich creative environment, RISD fosters artistic growth and exploration.


10. Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education

  • Website: ce.risd.edu
  • Headquarters: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Art and Design for everyone. RISD Continuing Education educates students of all ages in art and design with high quality, accessible programs, courses, and workshops.


11. Will Nunes

  • Website: willnunesart.com
  • Headquarters: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Will Nunes is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, with a BA in Illustration. Will draws upon a passionate interest in history and atmosphere to create illustrations, concept art, and character designs. Feel free to contact him at: wnunes.art@gmail.com All artwork on this site is copyright © Will Nunes. All rights reserved.


12. Jatternack Creative

Jatternack Creative is a boutique design studio featuring original artwork exploring the cyclical themes of nature, death, and folklore through illustration and photography. Design services include custom illustrations, logo design, and full branding packages for dark artists, indie businesses, and those in the alternative creative industries. Original artworks and thoughtfully crafted products are sold online as well as through events and pop-ups.


13. Antoine Revoy

  • Website: revoy.net
  • Headquarters: Barrington, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Antoine was born in Paris, France (1977) and grew up in Tokyo, Japan (1984 - 1989), Mexico City, Mexico (1989 - 1991) and Barcelona, Spain (1992 - 1995). After earning a B.F.A. in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999, Antoine's plans to locally initiate a career in the field of animation were derailed by French military service requirements. This unexpected turn of events led first to a move to Beijing, China (1999 - 2000), then to Antoine starting a design career, working as a visual and interaction designer in Dublin, Ireland (2001 - 2002) and Paris, France (2002 - 2009) while simultaneously freelancing as an illustrator. Upon returning to the United States in 2009, Antoine dedicated himself to working as an illustrator full time. Within the first two years of this commitment, Antoine's illustration work won recognition from the industry's preeminent juries and publications, notably The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Print Magazine, 3x3 Magazine and Spectrum. In 2011 Antoine Revoy received a Gold Award from Graphis and in 2012 was awarded a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. Antoine is hyperthymestic, a somnambulist, somniloquist, synaesthete (grapheme-colour), and acrophobic. Antoine currently resides in the East Coast of the United States, teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design, and is married to illustrator Kelly Murphy.


14. Mountaincow LLC

Mountaincow was founded in 2002 in Providence, RI and sells professional invitation software, stationery and other products to thousands of specialty retailers worldwide. Mountaincow’s innovative solutions enable retailers, event planners and home studios to quickly and easily design and print personalized invitations, addressed envelopes and 3D products for their clients for weddings and other events in-store with a PC and printer or outsourced with Mountaincow’s new fast, easy and affordable print fulfillment partner StationeryHQ.


15. Duncan Eagleson

  • Website: duncaneagleson.com
  • Headquarters: Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Duncan Eagleson is and art director and freelance, primarily doing illustration, but also graphic design - from book covers to corporate ID, brochures and billboards, t-shirts and web design, comics and animation.


16. Tellart

  • Website: tellart.com
  • Headquarters: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 2000
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Tellart is a design firm that combines future foresight, design craft, and emerging technology to create new ways for people to explore, understand, and enjoy our world. They have worked on various projects including the design of visitor experiences, autonomous cars, art exploration, and future city design.


17. Stupell Industries

  • Website: stupellind.com
  • Headquarters: Johnston, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 1975
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Stupell Industries offers classical and traditional seasonal and holiday framed GICLEE faith-based art, as well as home décor collection items such as wood plaques, printed mirrors, and circle wall plaques. They also provide a range of wall art formats including stretched canvas and framed items in various styles. Their new 1.5-inch thick floating frames add a museum style touch to any room.


18. New Urban Arts

  • Website: newurbanarts.org
  • Headquarters: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 1997
  • Headcount: 11-50
  • Latest funding type: Grant
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New Urban Arts is a community-based arts organization located in Providence, RI. They provide afterschool art programs, mentorship, and resources to empower young artists.


19. Trans-Tex LLC

Trans-Tex INC is a leading provider of printing services, specializing in custom printed wristbands, headbands, lanyards, key fobs, pet collars, and leashes. With over 25 years of experience in narrow web dye sublimation printing, they offer high-quality heat transfer solutions for retail stores, sports marketing, and promotional product distributors.


20. Mad Dog Artist Studios

Mad Dog Artist Studios is a creative space offering life drawing sessions, studio memberships, original art for sale and ceramics classes.


21. Hill House Graphics - a division of SCK Unlimited

Hill House Graphics was founded by Ian McLellan, as a full service marketing partner to small businesses and organizations that want to Make A BIG Impression with all of their graphic and marketing needs. From an early age, Ian was drawn to the graphic arts. During high school this passion for art was solidified when he was accepted into a summer art program for high school students at the prestigious School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. After high school, he spent a year at Antonelli Institute of Art in York, PA and then transferred to Kean University of New Jersey, where he was one 35 students from 600 applicants to complete a BFA in Visual Communications. This is where he became familiar and fell in love with creating graphic arts with the then new technology of Computer Design. Even while in college, Ian started a side hustle as a freelance graphic designer. After college, Ian was a director of marketing for one of Americas top 50 remodeling companies and handled the development of sales and marketing materials, advertising campaigns and more. Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by a commercial printing company, where he worked his way through every aspect of the business and helped usher in a variety of new graphics and production technologies with a focus on creating innovative solutions to a myriad of business marketing needs. That lead to the inception of Hill House Graphics, where Mr. McLellan put a focus on serving the small business community with the creativity and passion previously only reserved for the largest commercial print companies. From every aspect of Graphic Design, to production of Marketing Materials including Print, Graphics & Signage, Hill House Graphics focuses on partnering with clients to create innovative solutions to help Small Business Make a BIG Impression. Copyright © 2021 Signs | Graphic Design |Large Format Printing | Hill House Graphics, LLC


22. PMC Media Group

  • Website: pmcne.com
  • Headquarters: East Greenwich, Rhode Island, United States
  • Founded: 2012
  • Headcount: 11-50
  • LinkedIn

PMC is a full-service marketing and advertising agency that brings brands to life and delivers messages that resonate with customers. They offer creative design, web development, photography, video production, social media marketing, and public relations services.


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