In our mission as Alaska’s business advocate, Alaska Business regularly covers the state’s major industries, but it’s our great pleasure annually in July to dive into an incredibly broad range of Alaska companies (as voted on by our readers) from the gamut of business lines in our Best of Alaska Business special section. On the cover we are especially thrilled to share the work of local Lindsey Neidlinger, as Alaskan artists and designers form a vital thread in the fabric of the state’s economy. She is inspired by “the tangled relationship between organic forms and urban development… a flower growing through a sidewalk or water leaking through a rusted vat.” We ourselves are inspired by Neidlinger’s work, an ink and digital composition that “pays respect to the land and the people that were here first." Illustration by Lindsey Neidlinger
