Vince McIndoe / Mary’s Bottom Line ‘Kinky Knickers’ Packaging

We're very pleased to show you this sexy pin up by Vince McIndoe for Mary Portas's new range of Kinky Knickers which form part of her new show "Mary's Bottom Line" for Channel 4.

Mary Portas has been in the retail business for thirty years. Last year she produced her own fashion line that she hoped to be as British-made as possible, but soon found it was a nigh on impossible task. In 'Mary's Bottom Line', Mary Portas wants to boost the UK clothing industry by starting her own production line to manufacture a key staple in any woman's wardrobe - Knickers.

Mary Portas heads to Middleton near Manchester, where past generations used to thrive on a booming manufacturing industry, but these days many factories are closed and unemployment is rife. Mary will recruit eight apprentices, get them trained up, and start a knickers production line.
Mary is re-opening the sewing room floor at a factory owned by British nightwear manufacturers Headen and Quarmby. It was one of 11 thriving textile factories in Middleton, now it is the only one that remains.  Established in 1935, the factory used to employ 60 machinists and produced thousands of items a week before competition from cheap imports forced the Company to send production abroad.

But can she really make pants cost-effectively? Can she find a retailer prepared to stock her knickers and, crucially, can she convince shoppers topay a bit more for a British made product? Or is it really the end of the line for the UK's textiles heritage?

Mary's Bottom Line starts Thursday 15 March on Channel 4, look out for Vince McIndoe's illustration on all the packaging!

Vince McIndoe is represented Debut Art

Every picture tells a story

The prestigious image that is featured here on the cover of magazine "The Bookseller" (Bologna edition) is the much awaited cover for the book in the new Order of Darkness series by best selling author Philippa Gregory entitled:  Changeling.
Designed by Nick Stearn and proudly published by Simon and Schuster, the cover was produced by one of the very top Artist Partners artists, the well know Illustrator and photographer Larry Rostant.
Larry’s work and image making  is much renown and appreciated , and highly acclaimed by all the very best publishers worldwide. His work is synonymous with huge best selling authors, best selling titles, and highly sought after by computer game and film companies.  Larry’s work is much about the considered photography he produces, the choice of models and costumes, and the overall highest quality and expertise he brings to any given brief!

The Sewer Demon

World Atlas in 3D

David Dean's wonderful book 'World Atlas' has been turned into an amazing interactive 3D app by Barefoot Books, in collaboration with Touchpress. Recently named app of the week on The App Store USA, this is a must have for children, helping them to learn all about the world we live in. David's beautiful illustrations have also been animated so they really do make the book come alive!: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/barefoot-world-atlas/id489221652?mt=8

Melvyn Evans for Morrison’s magazine

Melvyn Evans created this beautiful map for Morrisons Magazine’s guide to a weekend in Wales. Melvyn illustrated all that Wales has to offer in his charming folk inspired style.

Melvyn Evans is represented by New Division

Lucy Truman for Avio

Lucy Truman illustrated Avios’s recent advertorial for The Sunday Telegraph travel supplement. Lucy was commissioned to highlight the benefits of Avios’s reward system in her retro chic style.

Lucy Truman is represented by New Division

Adam Stower interviewed on the Big Book Babble – Tuesday 24th April

Adam Stower will be interviewed alongside author Francesca Simon on the Big Book Babble on Tuesday 24th April at 11am. Red House and Scholastic present Big Book Babble to encourage children to enjoy reading. Each programme features popular children's authors, illustrators and poets in a Q&A session with comedian James Campbell in front of a live and virtual audience of children. Fans of Horrid Henry will see author Francesca Simon talking about her recent book, The Sleeping Army, illustrated by Adam Stower. Adam will be drawing live in the studio and also discussing his own picture book, Silly Doggy! (Templar).

Adam Stower is represented by Arena

Jonny Duddle: The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists

Jonny Duddle has been working as a character designer for director Peter Lord at Aardman Features Studio in Bristol for the last three years on the animated adventure The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists which is now on general release in cinemas. Jonny share's his experiences working with Aardman in an interview on The Pirates!Band of Misfits Crew Vlog:

"Peter Lord briefed me for the Pirate with Prosthetics during my first work visit to Bristol. He described him as a particularly unlucky pirate, with a variety of prosthetic additions, and that was about it. So I started off with a very scrawly sheet of ideas, from the practical (like a ‘fishing rod attachment’) to the downright silly (erm, ‘ship biscuit ear’?). Then Pete and Jeff looked over the first sketches with their wonderful eyes (the lucky blighters have more than one each which is testament to the relative safety of animation when compared to pirating), and sent me an email with lots of feedback, such as “Wooden teeth are a great idea”, “I wonder if you could design a head that has both the innocent simplicity of the first head, with some of the craziness of the second” and “I like his hook and the sort of wooden hinged arm that goes with it. No idea how it’s meant to move, but somehow I don’t think anybody’s going to worry about that! I read the feedback and got on with another sheet of drawings.  This time I could pick the bits I liked from the first sheet, mix them up, and work with Pete and Jeff’s feedback and what they liked to create something which gets us a bit closer to a suitable design. Pete looked at the new sheet, and said the body was looking good and his favourite head was the one in the middle. So then I did a colour one in Adobe Photoshop, combining the body and the head that Pete liked. The proportions are a bit awry, and the colours changed for the finished puppet, but amazingly the Pirate with Prosthetics was pretty much done. All that was left to do was a turnaround, showing him from the front, back and side, and then the drawings were sent off to the model-making rooms, where the sculptors work their magic to bring it all to life."

Jonny Duddle is represented by Arena

AWARD: Jonny Duddle Scoops Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2012

CONGRATULATIONS! We’re proud to announce that Jonny Duddle, has won the most prestigious and valuable children’s book prize in the country for his picture book The Pirates Next Door (Templar). His book was crowned overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2012 which, champions new and emerging talent in children’s writing.
Announcing the award, Melissa Cox, Children’s Buyer at Waterstones, described the book as a thoroughly deserving winner: “The Pirates Next Door is full of the anarchic wit and invention children love in a picture book. It’s fresh and fun and has been a huge hit in Waterstones’ shops across the country, and had an incredible reception from booksellers, parents and, most importantly, children. Jonny is a huge new talent in the picture book field.” Book Trade

Jonny Duddle is reprensented by Arena

Daniel Morgenstern