The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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A story for complete and utter football nutters everywhere, Up For The Cup, by Simon Bartram is published by Templar this month. Simon's long awaited tale about his favourite subject - FOOTBALL, follows the tale of a dedicated football fan who's team have made it all the way to the cup final against the odds.
Simon Bartram is represented by Arena
The very talented Aleksei Bitskoff (represented by Arena) is responsible for designing NatWest's new piggy characters, Pigby and Friends for the launch of their children's savings account. NatWest ran a competition for kids to design a piggy bank, the winner was 13 year old Kwamina Longdon and, with the help from the folks at Aardman Animations, Aleksei was asked to base his characters on Kwamina's drawing and develop them further to include a fashionista pig, a skater dude, an artistic pig, a nerdy one and a sporty one, along with Pigby "the little helper" who loves saving money.
Alex T Smith is the official illustrator for World Book Day 2014. He was thrilled to be asked to provide the illustrations for this year's promotional material. The brief was great fun, picking up on all of Alex’s favourite things to draw, appealing to children from nursery age to ten years old. Watch out for Alex as he tours the country this month visiting book shops, festivals and children's learning centres.
Now in its 17th year, World Book Day is the biggest celebration of books, reading, authors & illustrators of its kind, for children of all ages in the UK. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, it is marked in over 100 countries worldwide.
The major aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to discover the power of reading for pleasure by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. Every year, over 14 million £1 book tokens are distributed to over 46,650 educational establishments nationwide (nursery and pre-school through to secondary) – one for nearly every child in full-time education in the country.
Rose Forshall's illustrations for the Pirate Gran series of children's books, are coming to life at a theatre near you soon!
Pirate Gran has been dramatised by Scamp theatre from the books written by Geraldine Durrant, illustrated by Rose and published by the National Maritime Museum. We love this poster and can't wait to see what Rose's characters look like in 3D!
Robyn Neild was delighted to be asked to illustrate the cover of the paperback edition of 'The Holiday Home' by Fern Britton. Having already created the cover art for the hardback edition, Robyn's whimsical illustration style perfectly reflects the warm and humorous tone of Fern's writing.
Robyn Neild is represented by New Division
Steve May's images do a brilliant job in illustrating the various methods employed to keeping your data safe online in the cross-government campaign, Be Cyber Streetwise. Aimed to improve the online safety behaviour and confidence of consumers and small businesses, the website gives important and extensive information to protect yourselves, your families and your business. Steve created an animation in his role as director for Picasso Pictures, alongside a print and poster campaign.
Steve May is represented by Arena
Legendary cartoonist and humorous illustrator Martin Honeysett is available for commissions. Long-time Private Eye contributor and former Python collaborator Martin has joined Phosphor Art and is eagerly looking forward to bringing out what's funny in your briefs
Garry Parsons’s latest collaboration with the boys from McFly was released last month and stomped straight up the bestsellers charts. This book sees Danny and Dinosaur head off on a super space adventure and of course features plenty of poop in planetary proportions.
Garry Parson is represented by Meiklejohn
