News: Publishing

Jesús Sotés has illustrated a retelling of the story of Odysseus, returning home to Ithaca, through a series of illustrated mazes, games and riddles. The story, as recounted by Homer in the The Odyssey is full of adventures and surprising events that lend themselves perfectly to this engaging method of storytelling and Jesús’s images perfectly […]

Amy Grimes has been commissioned by Pavilion to create a series of illustrations inspired by famous trees across the U.K., brought together in the beautiful book The Great British Tree Biography. Amy’s contributions also include spot illustrations of leaves and branches, chapter headers and an absolutely stunning cover. Keeping the tree itself as the focus of […]

Daniel Long has illustrated a set of interesting insects for snap cards by Usborne. Working from a basic outline provided by the client, Daniel weaved some of his illustrative knowledge of the natural world into each of the cards, tweaking the compositions and poses of the insects to create a dynamic set; “The main challenge […]

Katie Ponder has been busy creating a deck of tarot cards with a twist; crochet, knitting and hand looms are used as symbols throughout the deck! Yarn Tarot is a new tarot deck based on the traditional Rider-Waite deck, fully illustrated by Katie and produced by Sixth & Spring books. Having always loved tarot cards, […]

Lucy Davey has illustrated the perfect walking holiday essential, handy pocket guides for 4 locations across Scotland, published by Pocket Mountains Ltd. With a look inspired by vintage travel posters, Lucy has captured specific landmarks relevant to the four locations (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sterling and Falkirk), as well as creating around 30 inside illustrations for each […]

The final video in our book focussed series of interviews is with not one, but four of our incredible illustrators; Dawn Cooper, Daniel Long, Katie Ponder and Jesús Sotés, who all contributed to the incredible “A Really Short History of Nearly Everything” written by none other than Bill Bryson. A very special project that sees […]

We’re continuing our look at some of the amazing book projects our artists have recently worked on and in our video series The Artworks Interviews, we’ll be hearing about these projects from the voices of the illustrators, the people behind the pencils. This week we spoke to Hannah Bailey, illustrator of Explore! America’s National Parks, […]

Katie Ponder has collaborated with the brilliant art team at DK again, to work on another illustrated book of myths. Norse Myths is the latest book of epic stories, answering every question a young curious mind might have on the various Gods and Goddesses of the Vikings. Following the same format as the previous instalment Greek Myths, […]

Dalia Adillon has put the finishing touches on “Cities of the World”, a childrens’ book that features 30 illustrated cities across the world, focusing on the distinctive cultures, customs and ways of living found in each. Commissioned by Korean publisher Yewon Media, Dalia’s vibrant illustrations act as mini-maps, with each city shining in its own […]

Kate Forrester was approached by Disney to design the cover artwork for their latest worldwide release as part of “The Ultimate Princess” campaign. The project brought together authors and illustrators from around the world to create 14 new inspiring stories about the iconic Disney princesses. Wanting the cover to be typographic, with a central dominant […]

We are amazed by the work of Harry Goldhawk in “The Cycling Revolution”; a celebration of cycling and its origins published by Michael O’Mara. The book features 60 lessons about cycling, each one beautifully illustrated by Harry. Written by Patrick Field. the book covers everything from maintenance to etiquette and technique. Harry’s beautifully atmospheric illustrations […]

We are excited to share Holly Maguire’s collaboration with Workman Publishing; Book Nerd, which was released this week. A celebration of all things bookish and biblio, Book Nerd is full of Holly’s incredible illustrations and musings on one of her favourite subjects; books! Guided by the team at Workman, Holly worked with editors Kylie and Sarah and […]

Congratulations are in order as Kate Forrester’s fantastic cover for ‘The End of the World is Bigger than Love’ by Davina Bell, has been shortlisted in the Best Designed YA Cover category at the 69th Australian Book Design Awards. The cover is an instant Kate Forrester classic uses symmetry to great effect, with Kate’s hand-lettering perfectly balanced […]

Amy Grimes’s collaboration with White Lion Publishing continues with “Artistic Places”, the fourth book in the Inspired Travellers Guides series. Featuring 25 locations around the world, each one focusing on a different artist and looking at the way the location inspired their art. Amy’s artwork manages to capture something about the artist in each illustration, while also […]

We’ve asked our artists to send in some of their all-time favourite illustrations and projects they’ve worked on, and we are kicking off with Kate Forrester, whose favourite image is a book cover out next week in hardback. Perfect timing! Kate illustrated the cover for ‘Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame’, a YA novel set […]

Dalia Adillon has illustrated ‘Acqua Alta’, a new book published by Jollibre, Santillana Editorial, about the effects of climate change on the city of Venice. Dalia illustrated the cover as well 10 interior images, telling the story of thirteen year old Lauretta and her plan to save Venice with the help and wisdom of her grandfather, […]

Sarah McMenemy has added a new cover to her ongoing collaboration with Little John Publishers, for a series of humours murder mysteries by Hannah Dennison based at Honeychurch Hall, a large Manor House in the English countryside. Capturing a light-hearted humour in the novels while still retaining a mysterious quality, each cover features the inquisitive […]

We are so excited to see the release of “Cities, Then and Now”, a lift-the-flap book fully illustrated by Lindsey Spinks. A sequel to “Ancient Wonders”, the project was commissioned by Lonely Planet Kids and gives a unique insight into how great cities looked in the past compared to the present . Working alongside art […]

Rob Ball has illustrated the cover for “Questland”, the new novel by Carrie Vaughan and published by HMH Books. The story takes place on an island governed by the rules of fantasy literature, and features on the cover a cohort of creatures expertly illustrated by Rob. The question that the brief posed was how “niche” […]

This month sees the publication of “Step Inside Long Ago Ancient Rome’, fully illustrated by Rachael Saunders and published by Usborne books. The next instalment in the Step Inside series (the previous was Egypt) “…Ancient Rome” is packed full of laser-cut pages, perfect for peering back in time and into the lives of the romans. Rachael’s […]