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Work Spotlight: Sam Falconer’s Scientist Portraits
Work Spotlight: Sam Falconer creates portraits of famous scientists and knowledge creators. For this week's Work Spotlight, the Directory of Illustration is excited to highlight recent work from Sam Falconer, represented by Début Art. Sam recently created a fantastic series of illustrated portraits of important scientists and knowledge creators. His unique portrait style, in which he fills a silhouette with lovely illustrations about each person, lends itself perfectly to portraits of historical figures. Can you identify each portrait below? (We'll leave the answers at the bottom)! [...]
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Ponderings after attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Some thoughts following attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for (part of) a day. Read More
Zombie Ant Fungus
Could the cordyceps ant fungus really cause a zombie apocalypse? This animation shows the harmless fungus Phycomyces (not the zombie art fungus Cordyceps!) growing fruiting bodies, by Natasha Mutch, SayoStudio. [...]
Sketching at Diagon Alley
As part of my family's visit to Orlando, Florida I took an opportunity to sketch a bit in Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando. I could have spent a lot more time there. I loved [...]
Artist Spotlight: Steve Hayes
Artist Spotlight: Steve Hayes This week, the Directory of Illustration is excited to present an artist feature on Steve Hayes and announce his new website! [...]
Off the Rails
Sir Henry Thornton was a railroad man. He grew up in the shadow of a switch yard and after studying at University of Pennsylvania would eventually go to work for [...]
LEMONADE LOVE SCRAPERBOARD!We…
LEMONADE LOVE SCRAPERBOARD!We love traditional illustration skills here at Lemonade and the scraperboard ( woodcut ) style of Stephanie Woods really shows how affective bold drawing techniques can be for Brands and Editorial platforms! [...]
flipflopflying:Buzzer Craig…
flipflopflying:Buzzer Craig Robinson’s latest personal work.
Sara Crowe’s ‘Bone Jack’ cover by Simon Prades…
Sara Crowe’s ‘Bone Jack’ cover by Simon Prades for Penguin Randomhouse.
MTA Subway Art Cards
The MTA in NYC livens rider’s daily commutes by displaying art throughout public transit spaces. Over the years several Morgan Gaynin artists have designed and illustrated wonderful images for subway [...]
CRAF ADDY Awards: ART|ISTS Magazine
2Communiqué was awarded gold and a nomination for Best in Show at the CRAF ADDY Advertising Awards for their collaboration with us on Art | Ists Magazine. The magazine, created [...]
LEMONADE INTRODUCES THE LOVELY…
LEMONADE INTRODUCES THE LOVELY LORENA!Lemonade are thrilled to share the news of the signing of top Spanish Children’s Book illustrator, Lorena Cabedo! Lorena’s fantastic folio will join The rest of our [...]
A Cable Goby Sketch
5x8ink in sketchbookThis week's #SundayFishSketch theme are women who talk about fish. Louella Cable was the first woman scientist ever hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, which was the [...]
Week 1 of my 5-week interrailing trip round Europe
End of first week – Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich Monday Train to London – fine (nice to get an early one without paying a small fortune) Waiting a lot at St [...]
Special Feature: Map Illustrators
Special Feature: Map Illustrators Image by Dominic Trevett The Directory of Illustration is proud to highlight several artists who offer wonderful map illustrations of varied [...]
THE AGENCY FOLIOS REVAMPEDFolio…
THE AGENCY FOLIOS REVAMPEDFolio Friday! We have been polishing the portfolios recently and updating the online folios too in recent weeks with our Illustrator’s inspiring new images. Getting ready for the [...]
MELISSA ARRIVES AT…
MELISSA ARRIVES AT LEMONADEOur team over proud and pleased to announce the signing of leading Mexican illustrator, Melissa Ballesteros to our Agency. Melissa has a background in Animation and Gaming [...]
jdebbiel:new poster for Japanese…
jdebbiel:new poster for Japanese Breakfast by artist Deb JJ Lee.
Debut Art is pleased to announce we are now representing artist…
Debut Art is pleased to announce we are now representing artist Manon Biernacki. Born and raised in the heart of Paris, France, Manon has always been captivated by the vibrant [...]
A CREATIVE TASTE FOR RECIPE…
A CREATIVE TASTE FOR RECIPE BOOKSLemonade’s Alex Hoskins has combined her considerable talent for lettering and textural illustration style brilliantly to create this fun recipe Book! Alex’s decorative style just lights [...]
Where’s EVie? Tusker Electric Car Search and Find Game Illustration
Rod Hunt was commissioned by Tusker to illustrate Where's EVie? a search and find game to promote their Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme for employees for Electric Cars. Rod created [...]
Guinness World Records 2023 Book Cover Illustration
Rod Hunt was commissioned by Guinness World Records to create the detailed search and find style illustrated cover to the 2023 book, continuing their successful partnership. This years book shines [...]