Clockwise from Top Left © Lisa Sheehan, JaceyTec, Sam Chivers, Corey Brickley, Edu Fuentes, Deb JJ Lee, Chris Labrooy, Peter Strain
The Directory of Illustration is proud to highlight fantastic new projects from the award-winning illustrators of Début Art.
Début Art (established in 1985) is an artists’ representative agency based in London, now with offices in New York and Tokyo. Début Art represents a ground-breaking roster of artists, encompassing both established and up-and-coming, globally based illustrators, motion and animation artists and illustrative designers.
As industry leaders for the past thirty years, we are known as principled advocates for our artists and for our industry. Our clients and artists appreciate the agency’s straightforward, well informed and down-to-earth approach to projects, from editorial to global brand campaigns. Our staff is research-oriented, sensitive to creative trends and to the international marketplace, so that we are highly effective partners with our clients in creating cutting-edge imagery and campaigns, no matter where in the world our artists are commissioned. Début Art’s esteemed position in the industry is rooted in our ability to continuously find and foster cutting-edge artists and to set the standard in illustration trends, a position we have held from the early days of our agency.
Established in London in 1994, The Coningsby Gallery (a division of Début Art) pioneered the market for contemporary illustration as fine art, and continues to champion ground-breaking shows of both well-known and up-and-coming illustration and graphic artists through its Fitzrovia gallery and online store.
Enquiries to info@debutart.com and/or info@coningsbygallery.com
© JaceyTec
JaceyTec – Variety Magazine
JaceyTec was commissioned by Variety magazine to create the cover of their 2023 Ultimate Awards Guide. The image incorporates iconography from all the major awards ceremonies for the music and film industry.
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© Sam Chivers
Sam Chivers – Ardbeg
Sam Chivers worked with Love Creative to create a key visual for Scotland based distillery Ardbeg’s new ‘adventure themed’ Smoketrails whisky. The illustration follows the journey of ‘Scottie Dog’, Ardbeg’s mascot, as he journeys across the world in his Ardbeg zeppelin.
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© Lisa Sheehan
Lisa Sheehan – AT&T
In honor of AT&T’s 147th anniversary, Lisa Sheehan was commissioned to create a commemorative Ampersand, an iconic piece of the brand’s logo. AT&T was inspired by the logos Lisa created for Saatchi & Saatchi, but they wanted their own unique spin on it.
Lisa heavily utilized AT&T blue, and the CGI Ampersand features a variety of items that represent important moments from AT&T’s long history, including a phone for Alexander Graham Bell and the moon to represent the first call made from the moon. Lisa worked with AT&T’s creative team to lock in how to represent historical moments that would be instantly recognizable to the viewer.
The piece was originally intended for social channels and internal use only, but the brand loved it so much, Lisa re-worked the image to jumbo size and the piece was projected onto AT&T’s building for all passersby to enjoy.
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© JaceyTec
JaceyTec – Wired Italia
JaceyTec was commissioned by Massimo Pitis at Wired Italia to create this science-fiction portrait illustration for the cover of the late-March edition of the magazine. The cover article features an insight into the technological enhancements to the human body- that may end up making us all super human.
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© Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza
Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza – Penguin Random House
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© Peter Strain
Peter Strain – Marvel Studio, The Moore Art Gallery
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Début Art is a member of The Association of Illustrators UK (AOI), a member of The Society of Artists’ (Illustrators’) Agents UK (SAA) and a member of the Agents for Change assembly. Début Art trades as per each organisations’ membership requirements. Andrew Coningsby (Founder and MD of Début Art & The Coningsby Gallery) was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AOI, 2012 – Oct 2016. Début Art was one of the founding members of the SAA. Andrew is one of the representatives of the SAA to The Design and Artists’ Collecting Society (DACS), the British Copyright Council (BCC) and The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA). Début Art has links in the US with the Society of Illustrators and ICON.
Enquiries to info@debutart.com / info@coningsbygallery.com
