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Christopher Nielsen for Pixar

Phosphor's Christopher Nielsen was commissioned to create some images for Pixar’s Instagram feed with characters from The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., Wall-E, Up, Coco and Finding Nemo having fun in the sun with the theme “Any weather is better with you”.

Chris enjoyed the challenge of illustrating existing (and rather famous!) characters, as opposed to designing characters for picture books himself, as he is more used to doing.

Find more of Christopher Nielsen's work in his Phosphor portfolio.

Lynn Hatzius’ Bee-autiftul Window Display

Phosphor's Lynn Hatzius was pleased to see her designs installed (in the form of large vinyls) at the Bee Urban Evolution Lab in Sweden recently.

This was Lynn's first large scale installation and she now hopes to see her work scaled up on a more regular basis.Bee Urban offers interactive and living environmental services in an urban environment in the form of hives & gardens for biological diversity.

Portraits by Cat Finnie

Cat Finnie is a freelance illustrator, living in London, UK. She enjoys creating colourful, digital illustrations in a decorative, conceptual style, for a variety of clients. Cat studied Graphic Design BA (Hons) at Nottingham Trent University, graduating with a First class degree.

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Sara Ogilvie/Sequin and Stitch

Award winning artist, Sara Ogilvie has done some delightful illustrations for Laura Dockrill's new book Sequin and Stitch published by Barrington Stoke.
Its full of heart warming illustrations and as usual, Sara  brings each character to life with her carefully crafted illustrations.

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Carrie May – Harper Collins

Carrie May was absolutely delighted to illustrate the much anticipated Rising Hope: Recipes and Stories from Luminary Bakery. Carrie's beautiful illustrative style is the perfect compliment for the empowering tales interspersed within this inspiring cookbook.

To see more of Carrie's work, click here.

Mark Boardman – Royal Botanical Gardens Kew

We’re absolutely thrilled to share this beautiful series of illustrations created by Mark Boardman to accompany the new Travel The World At Kew Exhibition, which is open now in their global garden. Following three months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kew Gardens has reopened and is showcasing its uniquely diverse landscape by presenting an exhibition of words and images linked specifically to areas within their gardens, reconnecting visitors with nature and satisfying their frustrated wanderlust.

Tasked with bringing the specially commissioned poetry and prose to life, Mark’s illustrations were inspired by the Royal Botanic Garden's selection of worldwide plants and trees, transporting visitors on a journey to each country. 

Talking about his contribution to the exhibition, Mark has described his pleasure at working on this inspiring project, “I felt so fortunate to have this commission to focus on during lock down. Not only did it allow me to immerse myself in researching the many botanic wonders at Kew, it gave me the opportunity to feel like I was escaping on my own global adventure.” To see more of Mark’s work, click here.

Pink Sofa Cafe

Situated in Tarnów  near Kraków in Karolina's Native Poland, sits a girly cafe called called PINK SOFA. Karolina was asked to create a new brand identity featuring 4 character illustrations with different personalities.

Used throughout the pink interior, the characters can be seen enjoying bottles of Prosecco , popcorn and sweets all available to enjoy form the menu!

Karolina Pawelczyk is represented by Lipstick of London

Karolina Pawelczyk – The CURVY magazine

Karolina Pawelczyk was asked to contribute to the fabulous German Editorial, The CURVY magazine. The article features power dressing and plus size celebrities; Michelle Obama, Hayley Hasselhoff and Melissa McCarthy. Karolina's illustration accompanies these real power women talking about their style.

Karolina Pawelczyk is represented by Lipstick of London

Thomas Burden- Acer

Our 3D expert @thomasburden was recently commissioned by @acer to create a piece for their 'Concept Do' series. The brief was open, with the only stipulation being that the final piece should be centred around a D and reference a word beginning with D. Thomas chose to go for a DIVE.

Thomas Burden is represented by Handsome Frank