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Frances Castle: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013

Frances Castle was commissioned to design another set of illuminated letters to celebrate this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival. Following on from the success of last year's Festival campaign, The Guardian asked her to illustrate three letters inspired by the theme of time and quotes by Margaret Atwood and Iain M. Banks.

Frances' illustrations can be seen at The Guardian's Spiegeltent on umbrellas, deck chairs, canvas bags and beer mats.

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Activity Books by Laila Hills

Talented artist Laila Hills has been a busy bee recently and has just finished these wonderful activity and sticker books for our friends at Bloomsbury Publishing. Packed full of exciting things to see and do, these books are a riot of colour and full of fun characters, from pretty princesses to the most adorable cute bunnies! Laila's vast experience in children's publishing and character design has given her another success with this brand new series!

Laila Hills is represented by the Organisation

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Laurindo Feliciano’s Ad campaign for Nestle, Maggi Fusian Pad Thai

Our latest addition to The Artworks, Laurindo Feliciano has blown us away with his first job for Publicis Mojo in Sydney. Laurindo was selected to illustrate the new ‘CAUTION’ campaign for Nestlé’s product MAGGI Fusian Pad Thai. Laurindo’s surreal and imaginative illustration made him the perfect choice to help create this stand-out campaign. Michael Dole, Creative Director of Publicis Mojo, Sydney: “We were incredibly lucky to work with Laurindo, who added his own brilliant ideas and imagination to bring the concept to life. God only knows what goes on in his head.” Well done Laurindo, we can’t wait to see what you do next!

 Laurindo Feliciano’s Ad campaign for Nestle, Maggi Fusian Pad Thai

Frances Castle: Interactive Games for The Mary Rose Museum

Frances Castle was commissioned by a new media design agency to illustrate two interactive games for The Mary Rose Museum. Built alongside HMS Victory at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the new state-of-the-art museum houses Henry VIII's famous warship and many of the 19,000 artifacts which were recovered with it from the sea in 1982. 52,000 visitors have already flooded through the museum's doors since it opened on 31st May!
Frances had to illustrate objects and characters for 'What's for Dinner' which gives visitors a chance to choose the menu for a crew of over 500 men and officers. She also designed a fun shooting game called 'Foil the French' featuring four different types of guns with different firing ranges – visitors are set the challenge to disable the enemy ships in order to capture them, not to sink them!
Frances Castle is represented by Arena
Frances Castle: Interactive Games for The Mary Rose Museum
Frances Castle: Interactive Games for The Mary Rose Museum

Levi Pinfold’s Black Dog: Children’s Book Winner, AOI Illustration Awards 2013

Congratulations to Levi Pinfold whose stunning picture book, Black Dog, has won the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2013.

The judges describe the book as ‘A visual treat, full of mood and atmosphere, the beautiful illustrations are full of detail and perfectly in keeping with the story … A timeless, thought-provoking book about facing up to anxiety, fears, and the black dog that visits some of us from time-to-time.’
Black Dog has also won first prize in the Children's Book Category in the year's AOI Illustration Awards AND the picture books category in the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2013.
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Levi Pinfold is represented by Arena

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