New Talent Alert: Elena Viltovskaia

Elena Viltovskaia is now represented by us in the USA - indulge in some fluid and textured fashion illustration...

Workbook Creative Carnival

The USA Illustration office had a fun adventure in NYC at the end of last year.  Taking part in the Workbook Annual Creative Carnival, the talented Yaeko Abe showed her skills in the live drawing portion of the evening.  Not only was it great fun to see the costumes modelled by live models, but all of the drawings were auctioned off for charity at the end of the night.  A super time was had by all! More information on the event.

What's Wrong With Washington?

The latest from Derek Bacon sees him bring to life the globally-resonating and challenging question: "What's Wrong With Washington" for The Economist.


This digital piece has taken pride of place on the front cover of The Economist recently. Taking advantage of the statue's recognisable status, Derek satirically reworks this globally famous memorial in photoshop to show Abraham Lincoln's despair at the slow state of US economic recovery.

Our New Website

This month sees the proud launch of our new-improved website!

With the emphasis more image-led than previously, for both artist and client, we have also added the facility for clients to register and create their own scrapbooks in which you can store, manage, print and share selected images.

Currently wowing all at the Perth Fashion Week is this anti-drink drive animation from the amazing Sarah Beetson.
The animations were projected onto the sides of several buildings in Perth City Centre, with the tagline: “Champers hampers driving skills”. Never has a police warning looked so cool.
See the animations.
Sarah Beetson's portfolio.

Ceiling Art

Rollover Michelangelo! When it comes to ceiling paintings Chris Corr is up there with the best of them.
New York-based Interior Design Company Eric Cohler Design hired Chris to let his art loose on this apartment ceiling. Using his favourite blend of buildings, stars, planets, black hole and flying machines, Chris spent about a week on the project. We hope his neck is better now!
Christopher Corr's portfolio.

How Ritz Get Made

This magnificently comical animation for the new Ritz Crackers website comes via the talented Katmo team, who were commissioned by CoCo Weir at JWT for Ritz.
The brief was to show the stages of the production process in a humorous factory scene populated with characters who are passionate about what they do. Says Katmo: "The animation loops, which was a bit of a challenge to get all machines, rollers, boxes, biscuits and movements in sync. A great challenge and great fun to do."Watch the animation.
KATMO's portfolio.

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Corr in Close-up

Now until 6th September brings the chance to view some fabulous Christopher Corr paintings at West Dean in Sussex, near Chichester.
Chris’s collection brings together paintings from his many varied travels to India, USA, Madagascar, Australia and France. You can also learn from the master himself as Chris will be teaching a painting course there in March.

Claire’s Cambridge Colours

This cheery design is the handiwork of Claire Rollet who is mid-way through a massive project for ELT Cambridge University Press.
Working alongside Tina Clarke at Pentacor Book Designers, the 6-level series is being published worldwide. Says Claire: “They are still hand-drawn with indian ink but the colouring I've done is much more vivid than my usual toned down palette. They're fun and fresh, quite cartoonish.”

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.

Rosie Sanders London Show

Next month brings the chance to see the supreme botanical work of Rosie Sanders in its original glory.
This solo exhibition at the Olympia Art and Antiques Fair is in conjunction with Jonathan Cooper of Park Walk Gallery, and brings together a number of Rosie’s large flower paintings, as well as a choice selection of landscape work. Come and see from 5th to 14th June, Stand C75.

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.

Portfolio Show

Come and put some faces to names at the up-coming “Portfolios” exhibition, where Illustration Ltd. will be among the many pools of talent on show.
Organised by Creative Review and the Creative Handbook, this is a dedicated event for all art directors, designers and buyers of photography and illustration. So come and say hello on June 9 and 10 at the Central Hall Westminster, London — it would be great to see you there!

More info on the show 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.

Unlikely Wrestling Match

Ben Tallon has just completed round 1 in his “Versus” series — a personal series of hand-drawn posters for unlikely wrestling matches, inspired, explains Ben, “by my love of sport, mainly Professional Wrestling!”
Ben’s humorous approach, superb drawing skills and command of typography makes for a quirky, slightly naive feel. Up-coming matches include: Orton v Helmsley (Wrestlemania 25), Obama v Clinton (race v sex challenge) and Ian Brown v Ricky Hatton.

SmokeFree Homes For All!

Currently splashed across leaflets, posters and flyers are these cheery designs by John Paul Early for Foam Design—a project run by Westminster Primary Care Trust.
The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the affects on health, especially second-hand smoke on children, and drum home the message that “Kids are healthier when homes are SmokeFree”