Location: Toledo, OH
Website: Dustin Amery Hostetler
Portfolio: UPSO
Blog: Think Faest!

Dustin Hostetler (a.k.a. UPSO) uses intricate drawings made up of simple lines and sharp bursts of color to set you up and then blow you over. He puts his pens and pixels to work for places like Motorola, Converse, American Eagle, and Verizon, all the way over to Upper Playground, Burton, Kid Robot, and so many more. He recently parted ways with Threadless, but not before curating some amazing shirts into their Select Series. Dustin is also the creator of the amazing art zine, Faesthetic, currently in it’s twelfth gorgeous issue.

Though I have been a fan and collector of Faesthetic for ages, it was his solo show at Carrboro, NC, gallery Wootini where I first saw Dustin’s amazing work collected in one place. His gray-toned illustrations mixed with explosions of color is like dropping chocolate into peanut butter. Filled with eyes and hands and skulls and color, and this one sparrow sitting on a pile of rainbow-colored jewels, I instantly fell in love with his art.