Maxine Law was born in London in 1967. She was creatively encouraged at a young age by her artistic family. She received a Foundation Diploma from the Central School of Art and Design in 1987, and earned a BA with honours and an MA degree, both in graphic design, from Central St. Martins College in London.
She is a resident designer at design studio Aboud Sodono, as well as having her own clients on a free-lance basis. She went to college with Alan Aboud and Sandro Sodano who run the studio.
Maxine became well-known when in 1996 the British designer Paul Smith approached Aboud Sodono to do his advertisement campaigns. Law was given the project and did her distinctive illustrations based on his catwalk designs.
She sketches her figures by hand, going over the outlines with a thick marker pen, before scanning them into her computer and choosing patterns, textures and colour gradients from Illustrator. She describes her work as "strong, bold, quirky and slightly cartoonish".
Maxine is inspired by David Hockney's draughtsmanship and by the way that Henri Matisse and Howard Hodgkin use colour.
In 1996 she was nominated for the Creative Future Award. Her illustrations have appeared in publications like Flaunt, Jane, Living, Esquire, George, Sky and Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazine.