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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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Laurindo Feliciano for NOVA Cosmopolitan Brazil
Brazilian artist, illustrator and graphic designer Laurindo Feliciano recently teamed up with NOVA Cosmopolitan Brazil to help illustrate a fashion editorial for the magazine. Laurindo acted as art director and illustrator for [...]
Artist Spotlight: Alexis Marcou
Featured Image © Alexis Marcou for Nike International artist Alexis Marcou has been doing freelance work since 2007 for a wide range of clients such as Cisco, Atomic Skis, Acco [...]
Traci Daberko for Experience Life Magazine
Traci Daberko, represented by Gerald and Cullen Rapp, recently created full page and spot illustrations to accompany an article titled Free Yourself from Depression in Experience Life Magazine. An animation was also created [...]
The Featured Five: March 2015
Featured Image: Amy DeVoogd Mendola Artists Representatives This month we bring you an eclectic mix of talented artists hailing from all around the world. Enjoy! Floyd Grey Inky Illustration Agency Floyd [...]
Dreamy Waters
You want to go for a swim? Blue Energy 18" x 36", Oil on Canvas
Michael Hoeweler for The Wall Street Journal
Illustrator Michael Hoeweler recently created a number of illustrations for an article titled "Your Top Seven Men’s Style Questions, Answered" in the Life & Style section of the Wall Street [...]
HexComix and Hex11
So it's not far from a year since my last update? Well time flies when you're making comic books! I started a production company last year with my partners in [...]
Tristan Kerr: Vintage Numbers
In The Black recently commissioned Tristan Kerr to create a custom set of numbers for a feature titled Top 10 Ways to Play with Smart Data. Tristan Kerr is represented by The [...]
On gratitude and the blues
This weekend, Chris and I both had to do a lot of work. This meant we didn’t have time to take the girls out to cinemas or swimming or to [...]
In the Studio with Ricardo Bessa
Combining both hand-drawn and digital elements, Ricardo Bessa creates beautiful, otherworldly illustrations that blur the lines between realism and fantasy. Drawing inspiration from nature, comics, mythology and fiction, Ricardo has [...]
Great Britons
A recent illustration I worked on for Waitrose Weekend about Britain’s rich history of invention. The design features eleven prominent inventors from British history such as Newton, Darwin, Stevenson, Bell [...]
Anna & Elena Balbusso Win Communication Arts Award of Excellence
We are excited to announce that the freelance illustration team of twins Anna & Elena Balbusso has received Communication Arts' Award of Excellence for their illustrations of “The Canterbury Tales” [...]
Adhemas Batista and Jason Seiler Help Adobe Celebrate 25 Years of Photoshop
Adobe is turning 25 and who better to help them celebrate than some of the artists who live and breath Photoshop? For their quarter-century celebration Adobe contacted a number of [...]
Guy Stauber for Mid-Pacific Institute
Raised on a staple diet of Marvel comics, cult TV shows & Kung Fu movies, Guy Stauber has long been obsessed by the visual medium. Having studied both graphic design [...]
New print series: Alphabet Animals
I’m excited to tell you about a new series of prints I’ll be selling in my Etsy shop, Alphabet Animals! The first four in the series are now available as [...]
Be My Valentine…
Some spot illustrations about the diversity of love & relationships… Happy Valentines Day whoever you are spending it with! x
Where there is Love, there is Life
For this Valentine’s Day email to my clients I illustrated this quote from Gandhi. I think it captures the idea of love in the broader sense, not just romantic love [...]
When it all just flows
I don’t really have a problem with artist’s block (touch wood) but sometimes it takes a while to get into a brief, especially if you’re trying to do something that’s [...]
Dying for a Cupcake
It’s that time again — time for the latest installment in Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery series to be published by Penguin, featuring a cover illustrated by yours truly! [...]
The Featured Five: February 2015
Featured Image ©Pablo Bernasconi, Shannon Associates Here are our five picks for February 2015. Enjoy! Patrick Morgan, Début Art Patrick Morgan from The Royal College of Art has been [...]
Directory of Illustration 31
Known as a go-to resource within the creative community, Directory of Illustration gives art buyers and producers an invaluable tool for searching, referencing, and connecting with the most talented artists in the [...]