The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.

Andrew Farley – Spy Dog

Here is Andrew Farley’s cover for the latest instalment in the brilliant Spy Dog series. ‘Spy Dog Storm Chaser’ sees Lara trying to solve the case of a strange cloud that is sitting mysteriously over  the town of Brickfield making everyone feel grumpy. At the same time sales of Ken Soop’s Chicken Soups are flying and chickens are going  missing from farms all over the country. Lara and her sidekick Professor Cortex have worked out that there is a strange connection  between these mysterious occurrences…. So an adventure involving, chicken snot, storm conductors and a giant oven follows! Andrew was thrilled to illustrate yet another cover for this fabulous series.

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Andrew Farley’s is represented by Meiklejohn

Lee Hodges – Magnificent RHS Posters

Lee Hodges creates magnificent posters for this year's RHS events.

Working with Premm Design for the Royal Horticultural Society, Lee has produced a series of visuals for the various events during the year, with a bespoke illustration for each half-term and for the major campaigns at Easter, Summer and Christmas. The illustrations are being used on posters, flyers, press ads and onsite banners at each of the four RHS gardens.

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Kevin McDermott, Premm Design Associate Director said of the project :-

“We felt that Lee’s vibrant, joyous style was perfect for this campaign. We are able to communicate the wide range of activities available at each of the RHS Gardens, along with the related flora and fauna, all with a strong sense of fun in a way that appeals to the 6-9 year old target audience and their families.”

 

Lee Hodges  is represented by Illustration Ltd

Paul Blow – VH1

We are big music fans here at HF which makes this project by Paul Blow for VH1 even more of a pleasure to bring you. Paul was asked to create the visuals for a new animated short for VH1.com titled “The Complete History of Heavy Metal: Fingers Bloody Fingers” which tells the amazing story of the one and only Toni Iommi.

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This instalment sees Paul’s wonderful mark making brought to life by animator Kee Koo as the infamous guitar player explains how he made the best out of a bad situation. Be sure to see the short here – https://vimeo.com/120351437

Little fun fact: Did you know Tony’s middle name is FRANK?

 

Paul Blow is represented by Handsome Frank  

Shobhna Patel – intricate and complex paper cutting

Shobhna Patel has a very unique and creative style in paper cutting and design  which is why Artist Partners  her agents fell in love with her work - she recently produced this wonderful design for her developing packaging portfolio for the website.

Her work is both intricate and complex, but incredibly beautiful, and Shobhna's eye for detail is really inspiring.

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To see more of Shobhna's beautiful paper crafting works  for both special book projects and packaging design,  please visit Artist Partners website 

Shobhna Patel is represented by Artist Partners

Helen Friel – Ascot

Ascot are using Helen Friel's paper cut images to promote event days in their calendar like The Prince’s Countryside Fund Raceday and appeal to people who are not traditional racegoers. The traditional nature of paper cutting emphasises Ascot’s heritage but the bright colours and modern style appeal to a new audience.

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Helen Friel is represented by Début Art

Bob Wilson for The Oldie Magazine

Acclaimed cartoonist Bob Wilson's work is regularly featured in The Oldie Magazine. Recently he has had the chance to play around with some rather famous characters! Bob's sense of humour and love of cartoons really shine through in his work for The Oldie.

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Bob Wilson is represented by Phosphor Art

Down the Rabbit Hole : Keith Robinson Celebrates a Literary Milestone

Keith Robinson‘s raw talent for strong characterisation and indisputable drawing skills have made him an irreplaceable credit to the Bright family for the past 3 years. Therefore it came to no surprise as the 150th Anniversary of Alice in wonderland arrived this year, that the UK creative was hand picked to illustrate an issue of stamps commemorating the globally loved story. Previously, Keith had worked with Guernsey Post to create several stamp issues and their children’s character, Penny the Postie, who features in two picture books he also author illustrated.

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Keith Robinson is represented by the Bright Group 

Ben Scruton for NESTA

Ben Scruton was delighted to once again team up with NESTA to create another fabulous set of illustrations. NESTA's upcoming report,  ‘Creativity Vs the Robots’ suggests that the higher the level of  creativity in your job, the least likely it can be automated in the future. NESTA have designed a fun online quiz, which measures the creative and social content of your job to give you one of six results ranging from a high probability of automation to a low probability of automation. Ben was asked to create six  ‘cyborg’ characters for the results page of the quiz. Ben absolutely loved working on the project, which allowed his trademark humour to shine through.

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Ben Scruton is represented by Meiklejohn

Soleil Ignacio – Classy Cases

Soleil Ignacio creates some classy phone covers with The Dairy.

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Designed for all glam girls out there, these phone covers are adorned with Soleil's luscious long-haired beauties. You can see the range and a series of Q and A's with Soleil on The Dairy website.

Soleil Ignacio is represented by Illustration Ltd

Jordan Metcalf – Advertising Age

A particular hit which landed on desks and screens early this year was the stunning work that Jordan Metcalf created for Advertising Age’s “Top Ad Campaigns of the 21st Century” issue.

Jordan was commissioned last year to create the cover, ebook cover and two badges for online use to support the realise of the issue. The team at Advertising Age were looking for a very modern and future oriented approach to the typography, well ask and you shall receive.

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The issue contains the top 15 ad campaigns of the 21st Century along with behind the scenes stories of how the ground breaking BMW Films were created, how the guerrilla tactics of American Legacy Foundation’s Truth campaign inspired, how The Man Your Man Could Smell Like and a Subservient Chicken showed how much fun interactivity could be and why PC vs Mac made comparative advertising not only palatable, but entertaining.

 

Jordan Metcalf is represented by Handsome Frank

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