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

WIA2025 Touring Exhibition at The Coningsby Gallery

 

WIA2025 Touring Exhibition at The Coningsby Gallery (Awards, Events, Exhibitions, illustrator, WIA Awards)

 

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. 

Maurice Baltissen – McDonalds

Maurice Baltissen – McDonalds (Animation/Motion Graphics, Illustration Ltd, illustrator)

 

Maurice Baltissen brings a richly detailed 3D world to life for a gamified McDonald’s app experience in Spain.

Maurice Baltissen – McDonalds (Animation/Motion Graphics, Illustration Ltd, illustrator)

Maurice's ambitious 3D animation project for the Spanish McDonald’s app is a vibrant, fully animated overworld for a new in-app mobile game experience.

 

Maurice Baltissen – McDonalds (Animation/Motion Graphics, Illustration Ltd, illustrator)

 

Designed specifically for the Spanish market, the visual world merges whimsical architecture, playful detail, and clear branding to draw users into an interactive, game-like journey. All 3D design and animation was handled by Maurice and his team, while development and app integration came via partners at LiveWall.

Maurice Baltissen – McDonalds (Animation/Motion Graphics, Illustration Ltd, illustrator)

 

Users can explore the world by selecting Spanish as their language in the app, then navigating to the “My McDonald’s Work” icon to enter this imaginative digital landscape.

WATCH the showcase video.

Maurice Baltissen is represented by IllustrationX

Phosphor Welcomes New Illustrator: Arabella Green

Phosphor Welcomes New Illustrator: Arabella Green (illustrator, Phosphor Art)

 

Phosphor are proud to say they are now representing Arabella Green. Arabella is a graphic designer and illustrator who blends her design agency expertise with her passion for problem solving to create bold images.

 

Phosphor Welcomes New Illustrator: Arabella Green (illustrator, Phosphor Art)

 

Phosphor Welcomes New Illustrator: Arabella Green (illustrator, Phosphor Art)

Check out a sample of Arabella's work at phosphorart.com and look out for more, coming soon! Contact Trina at Phosphor if you'd like to discuss commissioning Arabella for your next project.

Boat International Say Goodbye to Eddie Jordan

Boat International Say Goodbye to Eddie Jordan (illustrator, Phosphor Art)

Phosphor's Dave Hopkins brought Eddie Jordan's Lippy from the Liffey column in Boat International to life with his signature pen and ink style for 12 years. When Eddie Jordan passed away this spring, Boat International got in touch with Phosphor for one last illustration. Sadly, Dave Hopkins has also now passed away but Jon Rogers, Phosphor's Pastiche illustrator, stepped up to the plate, and illustrated a final farewell to Eddie.

 

Read Eddie Jordan's obituary here.

 

Find more pastiche illustrations at phosphorart.com and contact Trina at Phosphor if you'd like to discuss commissioning Jon Rogers for your next project.

50th anniversary edition for Virago Press, illustrated by Eleanor Rose

50th anniversary edition for Virago Press, illustrated by Eleanor Rose (illustrator, publishing, The Artworks)

 

Beautiful cover by Eleanor Rose for the 50th anniversary edition of the first book ever published by Virago Press. We adore the colours and textures of this Lino illustration. Eleanor is able to capture a real sense of place, atmosphere and feeling.

‘Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women’s lives – not only as they were lived in the 1970s in one Cambridgeshire village, but in the generations before it, all over the country, and reaching forward into today’s world, too’ Melissa Harrison

Eleanor Rose is represented by The Artworks

Cardin’s Friends: an evening where fashion met art in the heart of Paris.

Cardin’s Friends: an evening where fashion met art in the heart of Paris. (Events, illustrator, Lipstick of London)

 

 

Pierre Cardin April Afterwork was a celebration of creativity hosted at the maison’s flagship store in Paris. The evening explored the intersection of fashion and art, with live illustration by our artist Jessie Kanelos Weiner adding an intimate, expressive layer to the experience.

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