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Agency Spotlight: Début Art
Agency Spotlight: Début Art © Justin Metz, Oliver Burston, Sam Chivers, Doug John Miller, Patrick George, Melvin Galapon, Max Loeffler Début artists explore the post-pandemic world The Directory of Illustration is proud to highlight the work of seven artists from Début Art who have been commissioned to create editorial illustrations looking at what the post-pandemic world may look like and how it should be different: Justin Metz, Oliver Burston, Sam Chivers, Melvin Galapon, Max Loeffler, Doug John Miller, Patrick George. Début Art is an international agency with offices in London, New [...]
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Timothy Banks Illustrates New Award-Winning Interactive Children’s Book App
Illustrator Timothy Banks recently created the artwork for Achoo Gaboo, an interactive children's app that follows a sneezing elephant who can't stop blowing bubbles. Tim developed the charming cast of [...]
IT’S FINALLY HERE!! NEW…
IT'S FINALLY HERE!! NEW WEBSITE The new website http://www.garyswift.com is finally live and launched by Captain Webster, after many a stressful month at the design stages...The all new, responsive,optimised website is ready and [...]
CHARACTERS THAT LEAP OFF THE…
CHARACTERS THAT LEAP OFF THE PAGE!After the recent Trade Book Fair season it seemed a good time to show this Frog Character design created for a Publishing viral campaign, promoting [...]
CARTOON ILLUSTRATION BY ROYAL…
CARTOON ILLUSTRATION BY ROYAL APPROVALYes, I can finally let the story out! ... I was commissioned to create a fun ( Royal ) Booklet cover for Baby Prince George of Cambridge, [...]
IT’S FINALLY HERE!! NEW WEBSITEThe…
IT'S FINALLY HERE!! NEW WEBSITEThe new website http://www.garyswift.com is finally live and launched by Captain Webster, after many a stressful month at the design stages...The all new,responsive,optimised website is ready and waiting your [...]
Scratchboard Stories: A Conversation with Nicolas Delort
Nicolas Delort is an award-winning illustrator currently living in the grey suburbs of Paris. Gathering inspiration from the daily and mundane as well as books and any kind of narrative [...]
World Illustration Awards 2015 – Entire Shortlist Announced
Featured Image: Paul Blow, represented by Anna Goodson. Piece entitled, "Liberated" - commissioned by New York Times. The entire WIA2015 Shortlist has been announced! Click here to see it. Final category winners [...]
Mike Giblin: Caricature Design for Hit UK TV Show ‘Newzoids’
Since November Mike Giblin has been working on the hit UK television show Newzoids - a satirical puppet show airing on mainstream channel ITV on Wednesday evenings. Mike created over [...]
Début Art Illustrators Explore Aspects of Gaming Experience for Playstation’s ‘This is for the Players’ Campaign
Featured Image: Ronald Kurniawan Début Art illustrators Ronald Kurniawan, Sam Chivers and Killian Eng were commissioned by the folks at 180 to produce imagery for Playstation's This is for the [...]
Growbot Garden
Here's some footage from level 2 which I'm currently working on.
Growbot Teaser Trailer
A teaser trailer for level 1 of Growbot 🙂
World Illustration Awards 2015 Shortlist Announced, Part 1
The first batch of selected entries to the World Illustration Awards 2015 shortlist has been announced. The eminent jury has now almost finished their epic task of sifting through over [...]
US Open Tennis Theme Art
I was very proud to be selected for the second time to provide the 2014 US OPEN tennis theme art. See also my theme art poster for the 2012 US [...]
Raleigh Bicycle posters
I was very excited to be commissioned to create a series of posters for Raleigh Bicycles USA. The posters needed to evoke a vintage poster style for three selected cities. [...]
Antar Dayal Studio: Craft Beer Packaging
Antar Dayal recently created a beautiful new set of packaging illustrations for Missoula Brewing Company based out of Montana. The client comissioned artwork for a variety of their craft beers including Lost Peak [...]
Sam Spratt for National Geographic
Sam Spratt recently collaborated with National Geographic on a gorgeous piece for their adaptation of the book Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. "While I'm not religious or Christian, there are just some pretty [...]
Tiny Dancer
The grace and beauty of a young ballet dancer, ready for a performance. Little Ballerina, 11"x14" Oil on canvas
Meet the Rep: Plum Pudding Illustration Agency
Featured Image: Christine Pym Representing some of the most talented children's illustrators working today, Plum Pudding Illustration Agency is known for being one of the most dynamic, passionate and proactive agencies around. [...]
Colouring for grown-ups
So… it seems grown-ups are getting totally into colouring now. Awesome! I’ve always loved colouring, and used to spend hours as a very young child colouring in Altair Design books [...]
Playtesting Growbot
Hello! Would anyone be willing to playtest level 1 of Growbot Game? I have a PC and a Mac version ready to go. If so could you please email me [...]