Scrap Kins Build-it Book Volume 1 - Brian Yanish

Brian Yanish has been a professional illustrator and designer for over twelve years. He began his training drawing monsters in kindergarten in Western New York. He has worked for Jim Henson Productions in Los Angeles, trained as a special effects moldmaker, written and performed comedy, designed educational CD-ROMs, and sold his own line of T-shirts.

He currently lives in New York City where he runs the ScrapKins Recycled Arts program, designs for apparel, children's books, apps and continues his training drawing monsters. ScrapKins(R) is an NYC-based Creativity brand for kids that follows the adventures of a tribe of monsters who build their world out of the things we throw away. Through school visits and Recycled Art-Making workshops, the ScrapKins teach children to turn milk cartons into pirate ships and towel tubes into dinosaurs by finding creativity in common materials.

They have created programs for Whole Foods Markets, Seventh Generation, Clif Bar, The Doha Film Institute in Qatar, Make, Speakaboos.com, Wildlife Conservation Society at The Bronx Zoo, World Science Festival, Maker Faire and Scholastic Afterschool. Created in 2006, by children's designer Brian Yanish and based on his childhood drawings, the ScrapKins mission is to inspire creativity and DIY resourcefulness in kids everywhere. http: //www.scrapkins.com