Martín Elfman is a spanish-argentinian illustrator and traveller. Was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in San Diego, a kibbutz in Israel, Barcelona, Lisbon, Venice, Naples and La Paz (Bolivia).

His worked has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, New Republic and The Economist, among many other newspapers and magazines. It has been selected at the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration.

In 1999’s summer he begins working as a street caricaturist in London. Surprised that people liked those sketches he has been doing for his entire life, he spent the next decade traveling with his easel by cities across Europe and living in Italy.

After four years living in Bolivia -where has cooperated with the Spanish Embassy, local newspapers and several NGO's on projects related to education and human rights-, he has moved back, once again, to Barcelona, where he is currently living.

His work has been shown in United States, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Italy and Japan.

"In my work I try to create images with strong ideas expressed in a simple and elegant way. The task of a good illustration is to dialogue with the text and look for new and surprising ways of showing the hidden concepts under its words. The success depends on the amount of wit employed to solve the challenges posed by the assignment. The goal, on asking the viewer's active participation in reading the message. He's the one that completes the sense of a good illustration."