Julie Beeler

  • Science 2027

Julie Beeler is an acclaimed designer, artist, and educator inspired by the natural world.

Her work has been featured by The New York Times, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Institution and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, among others. She is the creator and author of The Mushroom Color Atlas, published by Chronicle Books, a comprehensive primer on the universe of colors lurking inside fungi. It is equal parts art book, field guide, and color-making workshop. After a 20-year career at the vanguard of interactive design, Beeler founded Bloom & Dye, a natural dye studio and farm in the Pacific Northwest ideally situated for foraging mushrooms and growing fresh-cut color.