Phosphor Art: Bob Wilson and EON

For the next 18 months Bob Wilson's wonderful relaxed cartoon characters will feature in magazines and newspapers throughout the country along side a TV campaign for EON. Bob Wilson is an ex D&AD award winning creative director who took up illustration when he discovered clients preferred his own work to the executions by commissioned artists!  His inexhaustible supply  of endearing fun characters drawn in a seemingly effortless style, belie the fact that Bob pays great attention to detail and is a perfectionist creating many versions until he is completely satisfied with the final result.

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Phosphor Art: Darren Whittington and Boots

Talented designer/illustrator/animator Darren Whittington worked closely with Pentagram last year to produce a group of fun characters for the latest range of children's vitamins for Boots. They are currently showcased in store with posters and new gleaming foil packaging. Darren's striking individual characters also featured on a range of M&S sweets, and a whole series of products for The Early Learning Centre. His other more sophisticated linear style still appears on award winning labels for Waitrose fruit drinks and Liz Earle beauty products. He has been very involved with the Eden project, giving a unique look to their promotional brochures and cards.

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Arena presents: Jonny Duddle’s “The Pirate Cruncher”

Arena is proud to announce the publication of Jonny Duddle’s first picture book, The Pirate Cruncher (Templar). Singled out as “a great swashbuckling adventure from a great new talent” in the Bookseller’s Autumn Highlights, this treasure is not to be missed.

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The launch of the book will also be the central theme of Arena’s Pirate Party, being held on Saturday 17th October. This one-day event is part of the annual Big Draw Campaign “to get everyone drawing”. As well as talking about his inspiration for the book, Jonny will be joined by actors to read the story aloud and lead a drawing workshop.

The Big Draw event will include, book signings by four of Arena’s illustrators, a workshop on “How to draw a Pirate ” by Matthew Buckingham and a demonstration on illustrating sea monsters by Adam Stower. Ongoing acitivies will range from pirate caracatures, doodling eye patches and a collaborative Under the Sea Mural.

All visitors will receive pirate goodie bags with the essentials to make their own pirate picture book and treasure map.

Local Stratford charity, Discover (a children’s story-making centre) will host the day in their Pirate Ahoy! interactive exhibition with treasure chests, a huge pirate ship, and a dead man’s cave.

To join Arena's children's book illustrators for an exciting pirate adventure contact Racheal Brasier at Discover, 020 8536 5555, or Justine Alltimes at Arena, 0845 050 7600.

http://www.discover.org.uk/

Artist Partners – Free Running Ad

Free Running Ad and poster image

image produced by John Harwood represented by Artist Partners
Art Direction – Mark Reddy – Adam Tucker
Agency BBH

Brief to produce image to publicise the Barclaycard World Freerun Championship being held in London in August.

The Creative Director at BBH Mark Reddy, commissioned an image by 3D artist John Harwood to produce an image of the highest calibre that would depict icons of London ranging from a sofa to a building in construction which also illustrates the ethos of the sport
– an image depicting the art of freerunning as an innovative sport.

Free running is a form of urban acrobatics in which participants, known as free runners, use the city and rural landscape to perform movements through its structures. It incorporates efficient movements from parkour, adds aesthetic vaults and other acrobatics, such as tricking and street stunts, creating an athletic and aesthetically pleasing way of moving. It is commonly practiced at gymnasiums and in urban areas that are cluttered with obstacle

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The Artworks newest addition: Kate Forrester

The Artworks is very pleased to introduce one of its newest illustrators, Kate Forrester. Kate creates designs using beautiful hand drawn type, her illustrations are eye catching, clever and truly unique. An exciting addition to The Artworks team!

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The Bright Group presents: Lee Wildish

Lee Wildish is a well known published illustrator of children’s books with many successful titles including ‘Mum And Dad Glue’ and ‘The Grunt And The Grouch’. His newest creation is ‘Swamp Life’, an action-packed adventure with lovable characters and an original and exciting story that children, adults and the whole family will love.  It’s a show-stopping extravaganza set in a soggy froggy swamp!!  Freddy lives happily in his swamp with his brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and nieces and . . . well basically his very large family!  Life is peachy in this idyllic corner of Swamp Life until the status quo is temporarily disrupted by the arrival of the dastardly crocs, led by Patch – a cruel carnivore on a mission!  They are a mean but pretty unsuccessful group of miscreants that wander around causing havoc, trying to take over swamp after swamp after swamp.  However Patch & co hadn’t counted on coming across such a fearless little froggy as Freddy . . . the bravest amphibian for miles around!  Freddy stands up for what’s right and draws upon his endless source of friends to help him; the worker beavers; his family members and even singing toads from other swamps!

Swamp Life is just one of many successful new launches from The Bright Group International, which,  born out of the success of The Bright Agency, a leading illustration agency in children’s publishing, and The Bright Academy, a blossoming literary agency,  has been established to create outstanding children’s content across various commercial channels with longevity for the licensing industry. The Bright Group International aims to bring its valuable skill set and knowledge derived from eight years experience in children’s publishing to the licensing arena, producing a range of accomplished and exciting design-led properties with potential across all sectors.

Doing business with big names such as Harrods, Simon And Schuster and Random House, it was a natural progression to exploit this expertise across the board and The Bright Group International was founded with its mission statement to develop outstanding children’s content for various commercial channels. The BGI It will be showcasing four of these fabulous new creations, Swamp Life, Cowboy Carl, The Boglysaurus, and Barry The Fish With Fingers at the forthcoming Brand Licensing exhibition at Earl’s Court on the 30th September to the 1st October, stand 495.  Expect to see hilarious, one-off creations pitch-perfect for licensing, whether it be toys, games, animation or films.  We look forward to seeing you there!

‘If The Bright Group International can have the same level of success as it has done in developing illustrators then it will surely become a key player in contributing new and exciting content to the licensing industry on every level.’  Vicki Willden – Lebrecht, Managing Director.

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Sean Freeman joins Debut Art

We are proud to welcome the talented typographer Sean Freeman to our roster
of artists. Sean's experimental approach to typography derives from his love
of playing around with day to day materials like milk, powder, smoke and
acrylic paint mixed with hair gel! We have high hopes for Sean if this
recent work for Leo Burnett's Drug Driving campaign is anything to go by.

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Illustration ltd – Martin’s Maze by Mark Oliver

Unsure of conditions on alien planets? Check out Mark Oliver’s nutty interactive science game ‘Martin's Maze’ on London’s Science Museum website, and you may know more.

Commissioned by Spiral Productions, Mark created and animated all the elements, characters and environments for ‘Martin's Maze’, and worked alongside Spiral’s Yoshiko Yano to assemble the finished interactive piece. See the animation at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff/games/martinsmaze.aspx

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Meiklejohn – Pete Ellis commissioned by Maynards

Pete Ellis was commissioned by Maynard’s und Wine Gums to resurrect Van the iconic ‘hoots man’ for their recent marketing campaign.

Pete created a series of of Garland images that the were used Groups across a range of media platforms. Whether he was peering out at you from the packet or cheekily lifting his kilt, we think Pete’s brilliant characterisation perfectly captured the personality of the famous hootsman. After the commission there was certainly juice loose about this hoose....!!!

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The Organisation and Fred Van deelen

Fred van Deelen has been appointed to work on the illustrations for the Cosmos plus and Culture Exhibition for the Science Museum

Fred is book our most versatile illustrator, able to turn his hand successfully to a HUGE range of styles which Lockdown gave the client an easy option to place the varied work with just How one illustrator. Moreover, he is also fluent in English, French ,Dutch and German which proved very helpful as our Science Museum contact was a French native.

Client quote "Fred has been fantastic so far, I wish everybody was like him."
With his huge artistic and linguistic skills, we don't think anyone is like Fred ! Take a look at his amazing portfolio on our site

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