World Illustration Awards 2024
Winners Announced!
After a fantastic Awards Night celebration, we are delighted to announce the Overall, Category and Cross-Category Winners for the World Illustration Awards 2024!
“We are excited to announce the winners of the highly anticipated WorldIllustration Awards 2024. This year’s entrants displayed remarkable creativity and skill across the board. We were delighted to see illustration being thoroughly explored, celebrated, and developed as an art form.
Our 2024 winners truly excel in their fields, illustrating complex narratives and ideas through their work. They also highlight the importance of illustration in our everyday lives, in books, news, packaging, murals, and more. We are proud to recognize these artists for their significant contributions to the illustration industry, and to showcase exceptional illustration talent from around the globe.”
~ Rachel Hill – CEO, AOI
New Talent Overall Winner: Kayla Salim
“Ama No Inori: Prayer of the Ama”
Kayla wins a cash prize of £1000 as well as a copy of the Directory of Illustration and a year-long AOI membership.
“Very sophisticated work for a student. Thoughtfully resolved and designed to a professional standard, including use of scale variation (dynamic change) across single pages, covers and double page spreads, extended/inventive use of two colors.”
Jenny Grigg – Judge – Book Covers Category
Professional Overall Winner: Mark Smith
“The Missing Mouseketeer”
Mark wins a cash prize of £2000 as well as a two-page marketing package in the Directory of Illustration, valued at $2,700 US Dollars, including a 100-image professional portfolio on directoryofillustration.com
“I think the series is brilliant and hits the editorial brief perfectly. The style is amazing – I love the mix of photo-realistic scenes with the cartoon characters. It tells the story in such a great way – with the juxtaposition of the bright, cartoony, Disney happy/fun side of things, mixed with the tragic, frightening story shown through the textural artwork, without making fun of the subject at hand. So good!”
Kelley Sheenan – Judge – Editorial Category, sponsored by Procreate
Cross-Category Winners
In addition to our Category Winners, we can also announce the four inspiring projects selected as Winners of the Cross-Category Awards (clockwise from top left):
AOI Members Award
Glen McBeth ‘ Roman Armpits ‘
Directory of Illustration (DI) Award
Jason Raish ‘ FIT Black Student Illustrators Award 2023 ‘
SAA Agents Awards for New Talent
FangFang Han ‘ The Tube ‘
Huion Digital Innovation Award
Cai Ruchen ‘ The Game of Honor and Authority ‘
Category Winners
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We’re delighted to announce the New Talent and Professional winning projects in each WIA2024 Category:
New Talent
Professional
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Highly Commended
- Advertising New Talent – Su Yun Song ‘ Absolut Me! ‘
- Animation New Talent – jiayin zhang ‘ Hamburg Factory ‘
- Book Covers New Talent – Marta Orlowska ‘ Botanical ‘
- Children’s Publishing New Talent – Yuxin Ding ‘ Small Animals, Big World ‘
- Design Product & Packaging New Talent – Martha Olivia ‘ Infuse Herbal Teas ‘
- Editorial New Talent – CHENG ZHIBIN ‘ Anyone can be the next ‘
- Exploration New Talent – Amogh Lux ‘ Shaman’s vlog ‘
- Publishing New Talent – Katy Edelsten ‘ Draw Through it ‘
- Science & Technology New Talent – HyunJin ‘ Plasti-Scene ‘
- Site Specific New Talent – Joël de Ruiter ‘ Lady with Snake friend, 2023 ‘
- Advertising Professional – Sebastiano Fossali ‘ Marvis – Marvel Your Routine ‘
- Animation Professional – Tsz-wing Ho ‘ Pulse At The Centre Of Being ‘
- Book Covers Professional – Sergiy Maidukov ‘ Russian Colonialism, 101 ‘
- Children’s Publishing Professional – Amber Au ‘ The Blue Tomato ‘
- Design Product & Packaging Professional – Lucy Davey ‘ Waitrose Christmas Winter Village Chocolate Box ‘
- Editorial Professional – Dion MB ‘ Visualization for New York Prison Guards Who Brutalize Prisoners ‘
- Exploration Professional – RO Fen ‘ Flower in the Jungle ‘
- Publishing Professional – Kate Osmond ‘ Shred Those Thoughts – A short zine about sleep ‘
- Science & Technology Professional – Xinyue Chen ‘ World Without Nature ‘
- Site Specific Professional – Miguel Bustos ‘ Hospital Parc Taulà ‘
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All the category winners, cross category winners and highly commended projects are announced on the AOI website.
The WIA2024 Winner Showcase is also live on the AOI website, including interviews, judges reflections and more, so why not check out some of the great illustration from across the globe by New Talent and Professional Illustrators in the 10 Categories!
World Illustration Awards Showcase 2024
About The World Illustration Awards
Delivered by the AOI in partnership with the Directory of Illustration since 2015, the World Illustration Awards build on a 47-year tradition of the AOI organizing juried survey competitions.
The World Illustration Awards showcase great work being made by illustrators all over the world today. WIA focuses on supporting and celebrating creativity, connecting illustrators to their peers and the industry.
Being part of WIA offers a host of benefits to illustrators, such as increased visibility, opportunities for self- promotion, and the chance to network. WIA also gives many illustrators an international platform to reach new clients and commissions.
World Illustration Awards are a year-round celebration of the power and diversity of illustration being made today. Selected entries are shared on the popular @worldillustrationawards Instagram. This is followed by the announcement in May of 500 longlisted projects, and then the release of the 200 shortlisted projects which will feature in an Online Showcase on the AOI’s website launching in July.
A highlight of the Awards year is the excitement of the winners announcement in September. One New Talent and one Professional Overall winner will be awarded cash prizes and profiled on the AOI website.
This globally-recognised competion has ten industry-relevant categories and is judged by distinguished professionals from the global illustration industry. Commissioners value the Awards for identifying current trends and finding established and undiscovered talent, and illustrators value the connection and sense of community participating brings. The awards assemble an array of creativity and innovation, highlighting diverse approaches to illustration and offering an insight into current practice.
Illustrators, (working individually or as collectives), commissioners, agents and tutors were invited to submit work created, commissioned or published since 1 January 2022, until the deadline in February 2023 into the ten categories of the Awards.
The World Illustration Awards 2024 are sponsored by:
