The Art of Racing
Début Art & Ilovedust were asked by the Red Bull F1 team to produce a live mural/painting to celebrate "The Art of Racing" at one of their Monaco Grand Prix 2011 parties on their Energy Station barge.
Welcome to Monsterville
Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford, East London and 3 monstertastic illustrators have teamed up to create a brand new exhibition: Welcome to Monsterville.
Arena's Neal Layton (Emily Browne) has collaborated with Sarah McIntyre (You can't Eat a Princess) and Ed Vere (Mr Big) to create a strange and fantastic world of revoltingly adorable monsters for an unbelievably hideous and funny experience.
The exhibition runs until March 2012.
Simon Bartram at Stratford Circus
Simon Bartram, creator of the Blue Peter award-winning Bob, the Man on the Moon is inviting children to come and join the fun at Stratford Circus on Saturday 18th June. The East London contemporary performing arts venue, is holding 'Draw with Simon' at 11.30am and 3pm. Simon will teach children to draw aliens, create a moonscape and tell the story of how Bob finds his best-ever friend. Simon Bartram is represented by Arena
Marvellous Mazes
Published this month, Thomas Flintham's Marvellous Mazes is a beautifully rendered, intricate black-and-white puzzle book which will keep children absorbed for hours. They can find their way through the fur of a great bear, help squirrels reach nuts at the tops of trees and aid Astro Pete in his quest to find the perfect planet to make his new home.
Thomas Flintham's Marvellous Mazes is published by Scholastic. Thomas Flintham is represented by Arena.
Summer read
A Great Summer read! Ideal for the beach , the new book by Freya North is published by Harper Collins with the cover illustrated by Lauren Bishop. This book is the latest in a series – with cover look and style on previous covers all illustrated by Lauren. Lauren Bishop is represented by Artist Partners
All’s Fair in Love and Law
Eastwing's Rachel Ross has illustrated a charming cover of the first book by Alan Hammond. All's Fair in Love and Law follows The Dufty's, who run a small firm of a provincial solicitors in the English Midland town catering for the legal needs of the local population.
Rachel Ross is represented by Eastwing
Aleph
Beto Campos’s latest project is a mind blowing teaser ad for the book Aleph by Paulo Coelho.
Campos had 5 days to create 29 illustrations; with a script from Africa Agency and Manipula Studio and photos from Paulo Coelho’s Transiberian Trip. Beto says of the video “The great challenge is the loop effect, where each image includes all the others.” Watch the video.
Beto Campos is represented by illustration Ltd
Café Nero Posters
Just launched are four posters created by Ruth Palmer for Café Nero.
Ruth was asked to make her paintings look like a mural behind the product photo for that real in situ Mediterranean feel. Peter Blake at Together Design then had the images retouched to give the impression of old cracked walls. The posters will be in the cafes throughout the summer.
Ruth Palmer is represented by Illustration Ltd
VHS horror film covers
Graham Humphreys has created this image for Total Film to illustrate an interview about the VHS horror film covers commissioned by Palace Pictures in the 1980s.
The columnist Sam Ashurst, is represented as the central zombie with an array of characters from his favourite films of the era. The layout is arranged to emulate a classic VHS cover.
Graham Humphreys is represented by the Art Market