Neil Webb / Royal Mail Agatha Christie Stamps

2016 marks the centenary of Agatha Christie writing her first detective story – The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Royal Mail is marking the occasion with a set of six stamps illustrated by Neil Webb and designed by Jim Sutherland. The stamps represent some of her best-known novels – Murder on the Orient Express, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Body in the Library, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and A Murder is Announced.

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Sarah Dennis wins ‘Best Emerging Illustrator Prize’ at the Junior Design Awards 2016

Huge congratulations to Sarah Dennis who was named 'Best Emerging Illustrator' in the Junior Design Awards 2016. New Division artist Sarah, was thrilled to win the accolade, voted for by the magazine's readers.

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Escoda Barcelona

Miss Led treats us to a inspirational look at some Live Painting against the stunning backdrop of Barcelona.

Cover art

Here at Handsome Frank, magazines really float our boat and in recent weeks our artists have graced the covers of some of the world's most iconic publications.

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Martin O’Neill / Luxembourg Ceiling Mural

Martin O'Neill was commissioned to create and install a 35m2 ceiling collage in Bar Amicale des Amis, an annexe to the Stayrooms Hotel in Luxembourg.

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Flavio (AKA IDRO51) Wants to Paint Your Wall!

Phoshor Art's Flavio Melchiorre is an Italian artist who is also known as IDRO51. His distinct style (known as hypnotic art) is heavily inspired by street art, something he’s been interested in for many years. Flavio actually began his career as a graffiti writer back in the early 90s. Since then he’s worked mainly in the fields of advertising and fashion, lending his distinctly colourful and psychedelic style to campaigns across the world.
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Chris Labrooy – Nike Presto

For the launch of the new Presto Ultra Flyknit, Chris designed and produced a series of Emoji icons.

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Fortuna Todisco – Milan Design Week

Fortuna Todisco was commissioned to create a series of Illustrations for an exhibition at Milan Design Week. The show, billed as 'a tropical scenery where ferns, objects and furnitures meet', featured this set of stunning artwork from New Division artist Fortuna.

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Pattern Designer and Illustrator Suzanne Carpenter

Suzanne Carpenter is not only a brilliant illustrator she is also a brilliant designer of patterns. Having set up a studio with her husband Chris they now run a vibrant design company called simply : Patternistas.
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Beautiful embroidery from Stewart Easton

Artist Partners have a growing strength in their agency in the craft and creative area of embroidery - one of the most successful of these creative embroiderers' is Stewart Easton - who is now becoming a much sought after artist, teaching and taking workshops all over the UK and US about to embark on another very soon.
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