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A View Of London

Reeling in the pride are four of our top illustrators who have been selected to exhibit at the AOI/London Transport Museum exhibition, “A View Of London”.
Gail Armstong, Natalie Kilany, Mike Stones and Christopher Corr were chosen from over 200 entries for The London Transport Museum show, which opens to the public on 18th May until 14th June. You can see Gail’s entry meanwhile online at the exhibition site here. Gail Armstrong's portfolio. Mike Stones's portfolio. Christopher Corr's portfolio. Natalie Kilany's portfolio.

Old Iraq, New Iraq

Contrasting the old and the new is Ian Naylor and this recent cover image for MEED magazine.
Ian’s powerful design illustrates the rebuilding of Iraq’s infrastructure after the invasion, by contrasting a foreground of twisted material, against a map of the country through which we see the new Iraq within.

Sweet Job for Cadbury

Ruth Rowland has been asked to work on a new logo for Cadbury's popular chocolate assortment, Roses, originally introduced in 1938.
The distinctive blue packaging has been retained, while Ruth has added textured brush lettering combined with clean graphics to give the packaging a more contemporary and spontaneous feel.

Welcome to Nuno DaCosta

New to the agency this month is the elegant and extremely chic fashion work of Nuno DaCosta.
Nuno’s loose and stylish brush work has already found favour with some of fashion’s top creatives: Neil Moodie, Lisa Butler, Zoe Irwin, and designer Melissa Odabash among them — and his illustrations have appeared in Marie Claire, You and Cosmo.

Six of the Best

Chris Ede is behind these excellently rendered portraits for Soho House Quarterly Magazine.
Working initially with ink and later reconstructing in Photoshop, the six portraits show the magazine’s house guests, and appear in the Spring issue 2009, and also online here.

Spring into Summer

This nicely hippy spring illustration is by Tianyin Wang, and is currently featuring proud as this month's cover for Fashion Monitor magazine.
Tianyin was given a free reign to create whatever his mind allowed, and his playful colour palette conjures a mellow 60s feel, providing the perfect intro into the summer we all need.

Slippy Feet

The team at CUBE are now iphone application developers, with the creation and release of their “Slippy Feet” game. Produced entirely at CUBE studio, this home-grown piece gives players the task of helping Slippy the penguin to slide and jump his way around the icebergs in 12 challenging Antarctic levels. Irresistible! See a glimpse of the fun.

Peter's Creations Come Alive In Budapest

Budapest is the showcase location for Peter Meszaros' animated oddball creations. Peter has animated various characters from each scene of the performance at the MU Theatre, where he can be seen veejaying the animations live on the stage during February and March.

Bag Lady Sarah

The incomparable Sarah Beetson has sold the rights for the US company Littlearth to use one of her illustrations on one of their very wonderful Fender bags. Retailing at $280 a piece, we are sure her design will sit very comfortably on these particularly cool accessories! Littlearth discovered Sarah through our site.

The McGreg

Commissioned by Christine DeBlangy at Leo Burnett, Greg Becker has created artwork for bus shelter ads, tube and restaurant posters for the McDonalds "McFlurry". His brief was to draw a nice big snowy backdrop with sky colours to match the McFlurry's packaging. Greg stayed quite close to the brief, but at the last minute added a robin (a not too well fed robin) which was happily accepted.

Steinar OnEarth

Tackling the environmental challenges of our planet; OnEarth Magazine has commissioned Steinar Lund to deal with some serious issues too. Juggling the fate of an endangered species; namely the Preble Mouse and the development of the Rocky Mountain West, Steinar using his super-realistic style, has produced an atmospheric and cleverly composed piece.

Hannah Covers Seven

Surrounded by a beautiful border feature is Hannah Firmin’s cover for The Sunday Telegraph Seven Magazine. Commissioned by Alex McFadyen, Hannah’s truly unique decorative style illustrates a short story by Alexander McCall Smith, a typical Botswanen building and van set the scene for the fiction with earthy colours chosen by Hannah to create the mood of the tale.

Extinct No More

Bringing the distant past back to life in a most vivid way is S. Timothy Walker and his children’s book of extinct animals for Random House. The commission for ‘Extinct!’ was for a factual book about extinct animals concentrating on the lesser-known creatures that came after the dinosaurs. The brief demanded a fairly high level of scientific accuracy while at the same time keeping the fifty-plus illustrations bright, characterful and entertaining. S.Timothy Walker's portfolio.

Church Of Torture

The standout engraving work of Caroline Church has somehow found its way into the world of torture. But don't worry, it was all in the name of advertising - namely Buell Motorcycles. Directed by Bruno Banaszuk at Euro RSCG C&O Paris, the illustration shows a "typical" torture scene from the Middle Ages, with a motorcycle as the unfortunate victim. The image was then placed in an aged book to look as if it were a genuine advert of the time.

Bee Willey Shows Us How

The long hours of illustrating have come to fruition for Bee Willey with the publication of this outstanding pop-up book for Carlton. The book's theme: "How to be a Princess" is brought vividly to life by Bee's illustration work. Working alongside designer Zoe Dissell, the book explores concepts of health, honour and duty through the examples of famous princesses around the world, and is packed with secret pockets and flaps, all concealing various hidden items. "Definitely my favourite job of the last 2 years" says Bee.

Baker In The Charts

The famous wall charts free with The Guardian last year were unmissable, and Alan Baker who was responsible for the art on most of them can now proudly reflect on the brilliant and informative result of his labours. Commissioned by Darren Gavigan, the tough schedule to turn out all the individual insects, biscuits, mammals etc left Alan with an immensely painful hand. But with the posters over many walls in homes, schools and colleges, Alan can now enjoy the success of the wall chart phenomenon.

Price And Wilson Go Commercial

Spring has been put on screen with the art of Anne Wilson and Nick Price. Commissioned to paint backgrounds to be used in a TV commercial for Zellers; the Canadian department store, Anne and Nick created magical scenes depicting words beginning with the letter ’S’. These two fine illustrators were chosen by Leila Courey at Leo Burnett to bring their charm to the TV.

Philip Bishop Does Wine Down-Under

It's all-things-Australian for Philip Bishop and this stylish cover for the current edition of The Wine Society List. Says Philip: "The client wanted to show imagery that was typically Australian, but without being stereotypical. They needed a sophisticated feel to it, with a wine society twist." Commissioned by Louise Herring at The Wine Society, the front design opens out to show the full landscape of gum trees, surf shops, work boots and beaches.

Hello To Jacqueline Bissett

A warm welcome to Jacqueline Bissett and her cool lifestyle and fashion illustration work. Jacqueline is no stranger to the market, with Elle, Company & Options, MarieClaire, Tatler and Vogue among her impressive client list. Jacqueline also produces regular work for Sunday Times Style. Her style ranges from loose watercolour ink washes, with a touch of collage in Letrafilm, to entire collages in Letrafilm giving a more graphic feel. Nice to meet you Jacqueline.