Fohr Card Stories

the cover

Judith's story, written by her brother

Erika Bearman (OscarPRGirl) and Eva Chen (editor in chief at Lucky Magazine) are spotted with the book

This stunning book cover is created by Judith Van Den Hoek for the fashion blog directory 'Fohr Card'.

The book contains a series of short charming stories given by 'some Fohr Card favourites', and was sent out over the Christmas period to clients such as Chanel, Tom Ford, Cartier, Oscar de la Renta, Esteé Lauder and Michael Kors. Judith says "The book features about 20 Christmas stories about bloggers from the Fohr Card community. The stories are written by their parents or someone else who's close to that person. I'm also featured in it and my brother wrote a story about how we used to celebrate Christmas when we were little."

A Big Thank you...

A big thank you to all artists and clients, and to Victoria Scott for creating our festive snow queen illustration. We would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2014!

As we come to the end of the first year of our 1 Million Trees campaign, we are very happy to announce and would like to thank you all in enabling us to plant 206,614 trees so far.

From the Illustration Team.

Shop London

Zoe More O'Ferrall is commissioned by The Evening Standard to work on their Shopping Feature.

In conjunction with Shop London, Zoe was asked to create a map plotting a journey from Oxford Street, through Carnaby Street, Regents Street, St Martins Courtyard and Seven Dials. Using her unique pen style Zoe had to include an expansive range of landmarks, shops, restaurants and hotels, she says "...I had lots of fun delving into the different areas, bringing it all to life with a festive finish. I think Liberty was my favourite building to draw, it's always been a treasured haven of mine. I'd recently drawn for the J Crew opening, so that was also nice to work on again. And as a lover of Anthropology crockery I had lots of fun drawing up all their beautiful colourful patterns!

Christmas Cards for Parkinson's

In aid of Parkinson's UK, Andy Hammond is selling some of his Christmas cards to raise money for the charity. With 5 cards in a pack (one of each of the above designs), the £10 cost will go towards working to find a cure and improve the lives of everyone affected by Parkinson's. Contact Andy to order your pack(s).

Narnia Grotto

Bee Willey completed an amazing job leading up to Christmas last year; creating artworks for a grotto was the perfect commission to put her in the mood for the festivities! Commissioned by Katie Burnett at Les Enfants, Bee worked on the scenery for a Santa Grotto, a Narnia landscape (with wardrobe) and the Snow Queen's castle. The artworks were used at a Christmas event with the finished result being a Narnia themed environment for children, complete with props! Irresistible!

Festive Pointillism

Bill Greenhead has been having some festive fun with his whiteboard. Father Christmas comes alive with Bill's series of dots! See the video

Christmas comes to Country Life

Commissioned by Country Life Magazine, John Holder uses his classic pen and humour style to produce this artwork on a Christmas party theme.

FRAME X FRAME: Showcasing Alan Baker

 

 

All using the Fiona Goble figures...

The Night Before
Working with the 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas' knitted figures, Alan Baker creates this animation as a promo for the book, published by Ivy press. Watch it now...

 

 

The Royal Wedding
An amusing animation for 'Knit Your Own Royal Wedding'. Watch it now...

 

 

 Noah's Knits
Alan uses his magic once again for the German version of 'Noah's Ark'. Watch it now...

The Chimes

Emily Carew Woodard's Christmassy commission from The Times 2 has used her artistic skills beautifully. Illustrating The Chimes, Emily's hand drawn, elegant cover design and inside image has made the supplement one to keep. She is also exhibiting at The Last Tuesday Society until 29th January 2012.

Bite

just sleeves

Bill Greenhead has successfully completed his eighth ad for Bite in Romania. No stranger to the overhead shooting, Bill drew directly onto a whiteboard with no guides to help! And with 3 days to work out what they were going to do for the final shoot, Bill helped with the storyboard and design of the ad. Commissioned by award winning McCann Erickson Romania and alongside StudioSet TV, the job has proved to be a fun one, in the spirit of Bill's entertaining drawings. Bill says "We used cardboard cut-outs for the first time to reveal other drawings, an idea I brought over from another shoot I did recently in London, to great effect. I just wish I hadn't thought of wearing the Christmas jumper. It got quite hot under the lights. Luckily I only had to wear the sleeves."  Watch it now.

The Knits Before Christmas

Twas The Knits Before Christmas

Noah's Knits

Alan Baker has done himself proud with another two animation promos for Ivy Press. 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas' and 'Noah's Knits' are the latest knitted creations to come from the amazing Fiona Goble, and Alan has used her woolly characters to advertise the books, which celebrate both Clement Clarke Moore's evocative 1822 poem and the well known biblical story.  Watch 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas'. Watch 'Noah's Knits' (German version).

FRAME X FRAME Blue Cross Christmas

Nick Murray Willis's e-card for The Blue Cross is a fantastic celebration of the 12 days of Christmas. WATCH IT NOW.

Woodmansterne Festive Cards

Hannah Davies has a festive range of cards, gift wrap and a calendar out for Christmas 2011. Published by Woodmansterne, and available from gift shops all over the UK, 40p for every card goes to charity. Hannah’s decorative, detailed designs will look lovely on a mantelpiece this Christmas!

FRAME X FRAME Microsoft Web Banner

Commissioned by Creature London, Tim Bradford worked alongside the digital team to illustrate, animate and help storyboard this festive web banner for Microsoft. WATCH IT NOW.

Daria Works For Tesco

December sees a wealth of Christmassy illustrations, it is said that decorations should be down by the end of today, so lets squeeze this one in by Daria Jabenko, done last month for Tesco Magazine. The project was called "Make it Magical!" -  a 9 page long Christmas guide.

Having to Cancel the Xmas party tonight

Sadly we have cancelled the Artist's party tonight...defeated by the elements.

Thankfully Alan Baker has layed on some alternative entertainment...thank you Alan

Food Glorious Food

This Dickensian yuletide scene is the creation of Jamel Akib, who has illustrated two terrific food-themed pieces for Real Deal magazine.

Explains Jamel: “Chalk pastels worked well in getting over that dusky light and the softness of the snow... and got me in the mood for Christmas early!”