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An Interview With Emerging Young Illustrator – Joe Lillington

An Interview With Emerging Young Illustrator – Joe Lillington (Arena Illustration, Children’s Books, illustrator, publishing) An Interview With Emerging Young Illustrator – Joe Lillington (Arena Illustration, Children’s Books, illustrator, publishing)

Arena have represented Joe Lillington for two years and in that time he has emerged as a go-to illustrator for historical non-fiction books for children. With his forthcoming book Ancient Warriors written by Iris Volant and published by Flying Eye Books hitting the shelves in August, Joe takes some time out to discuss his process and where he finds inspiration over on Arena’s blog here. The interview includes time-lapse videos of some of the work in progress he did on the spreads from Ancient Warriors.

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Frances Castle Illustrates Journeys of Discovery for Wide Eyed Editions

Frances Castle Illustrates Journeys of Discovery for Wide Eyed Editions (Arena Illustration, illustrator)
Frances Castle returns with a second fun and fact-packed non-fiction book in the Spot the Mistake series published by Wide Eyed Editions this month. Journeys of Discover is a lavish and large format, fully illustrated hardback which provides readers with an immersive, puzzle solving experience with a variety of red herrings, misplaced props and out of context objects cleverly hidden within each spread.

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Graham Byfield brings Barcelona to life in his latest book.

Graham Byfield brings Barcelona to life in his latest book. (Artist Partners Ltd, illustrator, Publishing Jobs)

Graham Byfield - has been represented by Artist Partners for many years - Originally working with A P as an art director from various well known advertising agencies - since leaving Advertising, his talent as a water colour painter has kept him busy creating a series of stunning books on various cities throughout the world.

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Jon Rogers Revives Guinness Artwork For Summer

Jon Rogers Revives Guinness Artwork For Summer (Advertising Campaigns, illustrator, Phosphor Art)
Phosphor Art's Jon Rogers has been reviving his award-winning artwork from AMV BBDO's Guinness Extra Cold campaign. Originally from the year 2000, the series featured a number of cool objects reimagined as pints of Guinness Extra Cold – a desk fan, fridge-freezer, fire bucket, nipple, iceberg and lolly, beautifully put together by Jon.

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The Association of Illustrators’ World Illustration Awards exhibition

The Association of Illustrators’ World Illustration Awards exhibition (Awards, illustrator)

The Association of Illustrators’ World Illustration Awards exhibition (WIA) opened at Somerset House in central London on Thursday 7th June with a very well attended Private View in the evening. For a look at the prize-winning entries and the 180 or so other works that were shortlisted go to https://theaoi.com/wia/

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