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ILLUSTRATION NEWS
Chris Labrooy has been working with BBDO Atlanta on this amazing typographic building for AT&T. The building in the images is based on the actual AT&T store located at 600 Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Chris Labrooy is represented by Debut Art
We are proud to announce that Oscar Wilson’s illustration for Canongate Books Gil Scott Heron Memoir: ‘The Last Holiday’ won the Best Jacket Design category at last night’s British Book Awards.
The judges commented on the work: “This arresting design evokes 60s counter-culture art in a contemporary and well-realised concept, with front/rear covers and spine working together to create a powerful and effective image.”
Oscar worked closely with Art Director Rafi Romaya to deliver this winning piece of work. As a massive fan of soul / funk / jazz music; Oscar was delighted to be involved with the project, and very proud that his first ever typographic portrait was of such a great as Gil Scott Heron.
Rafi explains the project and why she commissioned Oscar: “The plan was to create a bespoke and personalised jacket befitting for Gil’s memoir, The Last Holiday. Taking inspiration from Gil's landmark collection 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', we wanted to create an image as iconic as photographer Chuck Stewart's album cover shot whilst also representing Gil's poetic lyricism and artful use of language throughout his music, poetry and books.
Having seen Oscar Wilson's 'street-art style' visual work, which we felt might complement Gil's poetry, we approached him to attempt a typographic portrait using a mixture of Gil's album titles, song titles and most iconic phrases.
It was a gift of a book to work on and I hope we have a created a jacket Gil himself would have liked, had he seen it, and that winning Best Jacket Design Award at the British Book Awards 2012 would have made him smile!”
We definitely think Gil is smiling at the news, as are we. Well done to Oscar, Rafi and all at Canongate Books.
Oscar Wilson is represented by Debut Art
John Howe is one of the concept artists for Peter Jackson's long awaited three-part film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is released on December 14th. John also worked on Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy and he has become linked with Tolkien's fantasy works throughout his career, illustrating most of his stories. John's illustrations also feature in the Official Tolkien: The Hobbit 2013 Calendar along with fellow concept artist Alan Lee.
John Howe is represented by Arena
Graham Humphreys has illustrated an ultra retro, ultra cool new poster for Colin Firth's latest film The Gambit. The new film has been scripted by The Coen Brothers and stars Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman. Please visit his portfolio page to see more of his work.
Graham Humphreys is represented by the Art Market
Jonny Duddle illustrated this fantastic poster for The Birmingham Stage Company's new production of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, adapted by David Wood. The performances are at The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham until 14th February 2013, before touring nationally.
Jonny Duddle is represented by Arena
I couldn’t resist posting this beautiful Christmas image of an Angel doll by our very own Sophie Tilley! The doll is designed and made by Sophie which is just one of her many talents!
Sophie is the artist responsible for the charming illustrations in the highly successful series of books published by Simon and Schuster "Princess Evies Ponies" written by Sarah Kilbride.
Sophie is happiest creating her own characters and animals, and has developed lots of arts and crafts ideas which she promotes on the Etsy site.
She also designs and develops a range of children’s products, notebooks, character dolls, soft toys and decorative stationary items.
With the obvious French influences of her mother, Sophie always brings a little more in French style to her designs and illustrations.
At the moment she is working on a series of books based on her own characters and writing. More to be revealed very soon!
Sophie is represented by Artist Partners
Tom Duxbury's beautiful illustration features on the cover of Sarah Ridgard’s debut novel 'Seldom Seen', which is published by Hutchinson.
The cover has been proved very popular and the illustration is now available as a print on the Eastwing shop. www.eastwing.co.uk/shop
Over the last few months Rob Ball has been working on this amazing project for Sony and the marketing of their new game Battle Royale Allstars. Rob said ‘It was a lot of fun finding the right level of detail to describe both Big Daddy from Bioshock, and Ratchet & Clank. If that wasn’t enough, any project where you get to draw Parappa the Rapper can’t be half bad!’
Rob Ball is represented by the Artworks
Gary Newman has once again been commissioned by Perwoll to illustrate their online marketing campaign. Following on from the success of their collaboration earlier this year, Gary was asked to illustrate three more interactive animations for Perwoll’s web based advertising.
Gary Newman is represented by New Division
