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Agency Spotlight: Début Art
Agency Spotlight: Début Art 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 [...]
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The latest cover of Financial Times’ Weekend Magazine by Lisa…
The latest cover of Financial Times’ Weekend Magazine by Lisa Sheehan.
sleeping moon man
sleeping moon man
Grogu
Grogu6x4scratchboardThis piece done on scratchboard is somewhat of a side project done during my mentorship program with Giuseppe Castellano through The Illustration Dept. we were talking about the illustrator Mark [...]
good vs evil
good vs evil
2021 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award
“Welcoming Elijah: Passover Tale with a Tail”, illustrated by Susan Gal, has won the 2021 Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award. What an amazing and well-deserved accomplishment! The post 2021 Sydney [...]
butterfly boyfriend
butterfly boyfriend
cloud gazing in spring
cloud gazing in spring
Hairy characters for a new Mercedes Benz Campaign illustrated by…
Hairy characters for a new Mercedes Benz Campaign illustrated by Kolchoz and animated by Volstok.
Publishing Projects
Led by our expert agent Nancy Moore, our illustrators have worked on an array of book publishing projects, from educational children’s books to fantastical young adult fiction to non-fiction self [...]
Agency Spotlight: AAARep
AGENCY SPOTLIGHT: AAARep Clockwise from top left ©: Gary Ciccarelli, Christian Dellavedova, Geo Parkin, Electric Images, and Nathan Smith. AAARep: The Directory of Illustration presents an [...]
A detail of Sam Chiver’s latest personal piece “March of the…
A detail of Sam Chiver’s latest personal piece “March of the Idiots”.
mole man is here to help
mole man is here to help
“Blocked Out – Forget your Bitcoin password? Think hard, because…
“Blocked Out - Forget your Bitcoin password? Think hard, because a reset email isn’t coming. The famously decentralized cryptocurrency doesn’t store passwords. Some investors can’t access holdings worth hundreds of millions [...]
Kim Kardashian portrait
"There's lot of baggage that comes with us, but it's like Louis Vuitton baggage; you always want it." - Kim KardashianImage © Barbara Spurll. All rights reserved.
vacation laundry (2020)
vacation laundry (2020)
POV: you are a grasshopper and it is the first day of spring
POV: you are a grasshopper and it is the first day of spring
POV: you’re a caterpillar and it’s the second day of spring
POV: you’re a caterpillar and it’s the second day of spring
A tribute to the Diablo on its 30th anniversary for…
A tribute to the Diablo on its 30th anniversary for Lamborghini by Chris Labrooy.
a very happy meal #blender
a very happy meal #blender
The Prisoner Sketch Card Commissions
I had some blank Prisoner sketch cards reserved for my Artist Proofs and when asked by the client what I had I was more than happy to do something on [...]