Phosphor Welcomes Jean-Manuel Duvivier

Phosphor has recently welcomed Jean-Manuel Duvivier, a French illustrator living and working in Brussels. For nearly thirty years, Jean-Manue was Head of the Visual Communication department at La Cambre School of Visual Arts, teaching and coordinating the Bachelor’s and the Master’s teams.

Jean-Manuel specialises in not specialising: he loves to do editorial work for magazines and newspapers, advertising campaigns, murals, calendars and stationery, or children books illustrations.

Take a look at Jean-Manuel's portfolio to find more of his stunning work, or get in touch with Trina to commission him.

Bill Sanderson Illustrates New Tolkien Book

Phosphor's Bill Sanderson has created some art for The Battle of Maldon, the first ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas.

The book, which will be coming out on 30th March, will feature several black and white scraperboard illustrations by Bill.

See more of Bill's iconic work in his portfolio on the Phosphor website, or get in touch with Trina to commission him.

Caroline Tomlinson x Kiton

To celebrate the launch of their new Shenzen Store, Kiton commissioned a tailoring-inspired design from Caroline Tomlinson.

The image was reproduced as a token of appreciation for customers in the form of a silk foulard.

Caroline Tomlinson is represented by Lipstick of London

Jess Rose Bird x Prada

Prada encouraged their VIP customers to celebrate mothers day with a week-long live illustration event in stores nationwide.

Jess Rose Bird was busy in action across their London Flagship locations.

Jess Rose Bird is represented by Lipstick of London

Laurindo Feliciano’s beautiful bird display for Granado Apothecary.

Granado is a historic Brazilian apothecary  that produces a range of cosmetic and personal care products. In 2020, Granado celebrated its 150th anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion, they commissioned Laurindo Feliciano to create a series of illustrations for their packaging and branding materials.

Feliciano’s illustrations were inspired by vintage Brazilian advertising and design from the early 20th century, with a focus on botanical elements and natural ingredients.

The resulting designs feature colorful, whimsical illustrations of plants and flowers, with a hand-drawn feel that evokes a sense of nostalgia and heritage, including a pop-up store at the famous Galeries Lafayette in Paris, located on the Champs Elysées.

Laurindo Feliciano is represented by The Artworks

Royal Mail reveals King Charles Silhouette, illustrated by Andrew Davidson, on special flowers stamps.

The new HM King Charles III silhouette; a collaboration between illustrator Andrew Davidson, Head of Design and Editorial at Royal Mail, Marcus James, and Ian Chilvers, from design agency, Atelier Works is out now.

The project began with Andrew working on a likeness that would work at stamp size.

The second major stage of development was the digitising and fine-tuning of the detail in the silhouette. This was conducted by both Royal Mail and Atelier Works with visual adjustments that were tested at actual size to ensure the silhouette would work at the diminutive dimensions required.

The final image was adjusted to ensure a likeness to the new Definitive ’everyday’ stamp.

To mark such an incredible project, we spoke to Andrew to gather his thoughts on the commission.

How does it feel to capture such an important moment in British Monarchy History?

I feel a great sense of honour to have been asked to work on such an important job.

It’s a hard act to follow one of my heroes, David Gentleman, whose design of the Queen’s silhouette has been in use since 1968.

What were your initial feelings when the commission came in?

When Marcus James of Royal Mail and Ian Chilvers of Atelier Design asked me to work on this project, I was very excited, but knew it was a great challenge.

You’ve created and worked on many iconic campaigns in your career, how does this compare with what you would consider to be other major projects?

Over the many years I have been working as a designer/illustrator, I have always taken the view that each job no matter how large or important, should be treated with the same amount of consideration and respect as smaller less prestigious commissions. It keeps me grounded.

Andrew Davidson is represented by The Artworks

Suzanne Carpenter

Suzanne Carpenter is an illustrator in her own right, and also in partnership  with her husband Chris designing and  working under their own company @Patternistas,creating  wonderfully vivid and vibrant pattern designs. Suzanne has the most colourful and uplifting palette,  and her own unique illustrative style which reflects that.

Here are  just a couple of her  fabulous images : for more work by Suzanne Carpenter please go to her folder on the AP website:

Suzanne Carpenter | Illustrator | Artist Partners

Kimberley Pope

Spring is here! So we wanted to show off some of our lovely artists work which evokes that uplifting feeling - here is a beautiful painting of flowers in a vase by Kimberley Pope - with another painting of a pheasant in a country landscape. Birds, animals and Nature beautifully featured here.

Kimberly is so versatile with so many other differing styles, and diverse subjects, in digital and traditional mediums  - check out her work on the Artist Partners website.

Kimberley Pope | Illustrator | Artist Partners