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ILLUSTRATION NEWS
See Lizzie Mary Cullen painting live for Bluehive’s Christmas tweeting fun. Transforming tweets into Christmas doodles on a large agency wall while being filmed, was no simple task, but it was one that Lizzie handled with relish and aplomb!
Lizzie Mary Cullen is represented by Phosphor Art.
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Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine, is published this month and features Alex T Smith's hilarious illustrations on the cover and throughout the book. This is Anna Kemp's first young fiction title telling the story of "F-for-failure" Frankie's escapades. He discovers that the headmaster has plans to turn the students into robot-like super-brains and this is his chance to save the day and change F-for-failure into F-for-fantastic! It's really worth checking out Alex's fantastic interpretation of the crazy characters: Frankie's friends, Neet and Wesley, Alphonsine, the French nanny and Colette, the poodle.
Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine is published by Simon & Schuster and available from all good book sellers.
Alex T.Smith is represented by Arena
Who better than Nadia Flower to illustrate Bourjois’s latest advertising campaign.
Her delicate graphics were commissioned by wonder agency Talents Only in Paris, this elegant illustration can currently be found gracing the pages of the latest magazines and also displayed at points of sale within shops.
Nadia Flower is represented by Illustration Ltd
Next time you receive a junk email you may be able to put a face to the name! The extremely talented Kavel Rafferty has completed a limited edition, bespoke book called Spam Head.
Kavel explains, "The book is a collection of portraits based on the strange and sometimes wonderful names that arrive uninvited to my email account every day, trying to sell me designer replica watches and other such nonsense. I wanted to make portraits for these funny faceless folk...." Made in collaboration with Sam Arthur at Nobrow the signed book is available here.
Kavel Rafferty is represented by Illustration Ltd
It's been a musical summer for lettering artist Ruth Rowland.
Hot on the heels of the Lennon job, she has just completed the latest James Blunt album. "Some Kind Of Trouble" plus his latest single, "Stay The Night" sees loose, brush style lettering created to work with the overall design of the packaging which has an old school, scrapbook feel. The layouts were put together traditionally with sellotape and paper and then photographed. The style is also taken through to James Blunt's website.
Ruth Rowland is represented by Illustration Ltd
Adrian Valencia's illustration features on the cover of the fourth in the "Spellman" detective series published by Simon & Schuster. The Spellman's Strike Again is both humourous and classy, and Adrian's illustration is perfect for the cover.
Adrian Valencia is represented by Eastwing
Talented artist Graham Evernden has recently been applying his skills to the Jameson Whisky 2011 calendar. His strong black and white imagery, with a traditional slant, works perfectly for the timeless style of branding that Jameson are known for. Producing ten illustrations for the calendar, Graham's work depicts the rich history of the company, and with such great work, we'll drink to that!
Graham Evernden is represented by the Organisation
Bob Wilson’s epic campaign for Eon still continues, and his latest ads depicting various characterful mice, nicely back up his recent TV commercial. Bob works in charcoal on a smooth watercolour paper, which gives the wonderful hand crafted feel he is so well known for.
Bob Wilson is represented by Phosphor Art
