Visual Artist
Annie is an author and illustrator living in rural Mendocino County. She helps companies tell stories with delightful worlds, lovable characters, in line and color.
Origninal Paintings and Illustrations
Oil paintings, watercolors, and original artworks from books, in the online store now.
Books and Zines
Books that inspire, help you connect with your creativity, and sometimes make you chuckle. You’ll want to read them over and over again.
Meet the Artist
Annie Ruygt is an illustrator and artist whose creative path has unfolded across disciplines, landscapes, and ways of seeing. She builds worlds with lovable characters in her books, for tech companies, and across the canvas. She has a passion for making intuitive art and writing stories that help us remember our essence and deepest selves on this strange planet called earth. You can read more here.
Field Notes
Posts about illustration, life, and lessons learned.
Explore the backlog of articles and monthly newsletters about the creative practice, and lessons learned as an illustrator.
Annie + (Collaborations)
Collaborations - Fly.io
Alongside her more introspective work, Annie brings a sense of play and curiosity to her collaborations with Fly.io, where her illustrations translate complex, often invisible systems into lively, imaginative worlds. Here, her characters take on a different kind of magic—mischievous sprites, adventurous birds, and strange little guardians of code—each one embodying pieces of a larger, hidden infrastructure.
Rather than separating the technical from the imaginative, Annie’s work blends them, turning concepts like distributed systems and resilience into something tangible, narrative, and even a little bit whimsical.
Collaborations - The Spacious Tarot
In 2016, Annie reached out to Carrie Mallon to create a tarot deck. After three years of development they launched the deck with a successful kickstarter, and have sold over 12,000 copies around the world. Their collaboration is one that’s hard to replicate- intuitively aligned while both bringing completely different strengths. They’re currently working on another deck and special edition of the Spacious Tarot.
“She has the rare skill of intuitively understanding the spirit, direction, and heart behind any given project.”
Monthly Musings, Sketches, and Updates
Be in the know: get sneak peeks, behind the scenes, and updates in the monthly newsletter.
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All photos by the amazing Bobby Cochran.