Edith Young is an illustrator, author and visual essayist. Her first book COLOR SCHEME: AN IRREVERENT HISTORY OF ART AND POP CULTURES IN COLOR PALETTES—which elucidated humorous tropes of art history through a colorful lens—was published in 2021 by Princeton Architectural Press. Her commercial illustration clients include The Carlyle Hotel, Bergdorf Goodman, Schumacher, Karhu and Big Night. She lives in New York.