Lisa Sheehan – WIA 2025 Category Winner Professional Editorial
Hearty congratulations to Lisa and the Art Direction team at Which? regarding this award winning cover illustration.
Lynn Hatzius Shortlisted for World Illustration Awards
Phosphor's Lynn Hatzius has been shortlisted for the AOI's World Illustration Awards 2025. Lynn submitted a series of collages she created for an A Level textbook, published by Liber for use at Swedish high schools.
WIA2025 Touring Exhibition at The Coningsby Gallery
The World Illustration Awards are presented annually by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the USA-based Directory of Illustration to support, promote and celebrate contemporary illustration being made today across the globe.
This year celebrates 10 years of the World Illustration Awards, and we are delighted to share that the first venue to host the WIA2025 Touring Exhibition, will be the Coningsby Gallery in London from Monday, 3rd November –Saturday, 8th November 2025.
The awards are an inspiring survey of the breadth and diversity of current global illustration practice chosen from over 4,500 submissions received from 85 countries.
The exhibition showcases 44 Award-Winning and Highly Commended projects selected by an independent global jury across ten industry-relevant categories such as Design, Children’s Publishing or Editorial.
This vibrant, colourful, thought-provoking exhibition of professional and new talent work from all around the globe will delight and inform audiences of all ages.
Find out more information about all things WIA on their website worldillustrationawards.com.
The Society of Artists’ Agents (SAA) has sponsored the New Talent entry category for many years and Society member agencies have mentored the winning illustrators.
FangFang Han wins the WIA SAA Agents Award for New Talent in Illustration
We are delighted to announce that this year’s World Illustration/SAA Award for New Talent winner is FangFang Han for her animation ’The Tube', FangFang Han's prize will be six month’s trial representation including mentoring and career development by one of the SAA’s member agents.
Lucy Davey Highly Commended for Waitrose Christmas Winter Village Chocolate Box
Lucy Davey came highly commended at the recent World Illustration Awards, for this beautiful packaging project for Waitrose. Lucy illustrated the Christmas Winter Village Chocolate Box, depicting a magically festive scene full of fun details to spot.
It was a joy to see Lucy’s work brought to life on this inventive packaging, and to see it recognised in the WIA Awards. Well done Lucy!
Claire Harrup Winner of V&A Adult Non Fiction award
We were very proud to see our Claire Harrup and her stunning artwork for ‘Britain’s Landmarks and Legends’ take home the winning prize for the Adult Non-Fiction category at the V&A Illustration Awards. A beautiful book commissioned by the lovely team at Harper Collins for National Trust.
Sveta Dorosheva is a category winner in the World Illustration Awards 2024!
We are thrilled to announce that Sveta has won the World Illustration Award 2024 in the Advertising category!
Her extraordinary artwork for the British Library’s winter 2023 exhibition, 'Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination', captured the magic of fantasy literature from Tolkien to Neil Gaiman.
Filled with mythical creatures and legendary figures, her intricate design transported viewers into a world rich with wonder, mystery, and storytelling. Congratulations, Sveta, on this well-deserved recognition for such an epic creation!
Read more on this project here and on The AOI website.
THE WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS LONGLIST
The Association of Illustrators, in partnership with the Directory of Illustration have just announced the World Illustration Awards 2024 longlisted projects chosen by the judges from over 5,000 entries that were submitted. 500 projects have been selected across all 10 categories - VIEW THE LONGLIST
LAUGH OUT LOUD 2023 BOOK AWARDS WINNER!
Congratulations go to Arena illustrator Thomas Flintham and author Pamela Burchard for winning the 6-8 category for A Monster Ate My Packed Lunch.
Ten Word Tiny Tales contributor Alex T. Smith
We were thrilled to celebrate this brilliant book with Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho along with a few of the contributing illustrators including Alex T. Smith.
"The tales in this compendium are tiny - they are only ten words long! But in your imagination they will settle - and, like seeds, they will grow..."