Advocate had a blast at Bologna Children’s Book Fair! We saw lots of amazing artwork, a bunch of friendly faces, and spotted some pictures by our lovely artists on some great stalls. Here are some photos we took of art we saw by children’s illustrators Bill Bolton, Ksenia Topaz, Tom Percival, Steph Hinton and Simon Mendez. To see more of their art for children’s books and other work, visit their online portfolios on our website!
With Kate just arriving back from her Adventures across the pond, we thought we’d show you what she’s been up to over the past week!
She started off the week at the London Toy Fair, before jetting off to Nuremberg, Germany, for the biggest toy fair in the world! Next stop was New York City for yet another Toy Fair, before heading to a very cold Minnesota, Minneapolis. With a short stopover in Chicago, we finally have Kate back in the Advocate offices! Welcome back, Kate!
There is nothing quite owning an original pice of art the original copy that no one else owns, do you find yourself from time to
At Spring Fair 2012 for the first time Advocate Art is selling original artwork!
Some of the artists featuring are Suzanne Kushi, Sally Garland, Rossana Novella, Rebecca Lancaster, Paul Collis , Ned Taylor, Martina Hogan, Mat Edwards, Davina Horne, Hollie Jacobs, Francoise Michelle, Eva Sassin, Emma Pearce, Claire Pryce, Dianne Frost, Craig Joiner, Kay Burns, Cathryn Jones and many more! You will be able to find us in a NEW location in the ART SECTION! Stand 4BB 109
Once again Book Expo America, the largest annual book trade fair in the United States took place at the Javits Center in New York City, with great success! Advocate’s exposure is growing from Strength to Strength with a noticeable increase in face to face appointments made prior to the show, as well as some quality pop on appointments by new and exciting potential clients.
Our stand is certainly not something that can be missed with its Bright red cafe style appearance, and of course my welcoming smile! And our captivating portfolios of artists keeping them glued to their seats. We entertained such clients as Disney, Nickelodeon, Capstone, Tigertales, Sterling, Houghton Mifflin, Harper Collins, Viz and National Geographic to name but a few of the significant book publishers that came along from the United States, and many from abroad too.
Well done Team Advocate, I would like to thank all of the artists for producing such captivating artwork its a delight to show, And a thank you to the advocate team in the office who helped with the preparations! It was a great success and I look forward to the projects that come off the back of Book Expo and the new Relationships I have formed.
Kate xxx
Here we go again Edward Burns and Francois Aquesbi from Advocate-Art illustration agency are this week at PG LIVE the London international Greeting Card Show. Featuring fantastic Greeting card ,Calendars, stationary and other licensing products design. Here are some photos of them at work.
It is one of the busiest months at Advocate Art in preparation for three major shows this month. Ed and Francois are taking to the air next week for Surtex greeting card show in New York (15th and 17th of May). Then on the 24th and 25th of May we will be attending PG Live in London.Kate will also be of to the Book Expo in New York on 24th-26th of May, All together we will be covering over 10,000 Miles,seeing over 200 Art Buyers.
From Monday 28th to Thursday 31st March, the cream of the publishing industry descend upon their Mecca, from author to agent, illustrators and publishers’, packagers to printers, Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the pinnacle of our publishing calendar.
We at Advocate are proud to say that Bologna 2011 is our 10th year of exhibiting, where we grow from strength to strength with between 70 to 100 face-to-face meetings direct with the industry’s best publishing houses. It is also where we generate and gather new contacts whilst strengthening relationships with our clients in turn generating/handling 2 million dollars worth in art commissioning on a global scale. This is the reason why we are Britain’s largest illustration agency – we are proud of the fact that we are the only illustration agent to take space amongst all the publishers where we are able to grab the attention of the 1300 exhibitors coming from 67 countries and countless visitors to the show. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the most important international event dedicated to the children’s publishing industry and Advocate are there at the heart showcasing the best of the illustration industry. For this, the 47th Bologna fair, we are launching new portfolios from Steve Wood, Genie Espinosa, Sophie Escabasse and Natasha Kuricheva. We look forward to seeing you at Hall 25 A159.
Sophie Escabasse Natasha kuricheva
A big thanks to everyone who found the time to do some speculative work for the Frankfurt Paperworld Show. Ed and Francois had a great fair with over 40 appointment in 4 days- so hope to be sharing with you new deals and clients over the next few weeks and months! Here are some shots of their travels-
We revised a little our trend forecasts after talking to art directors and seeing the huge amount of new products on the market. I don’t believe we had anything wrong, but felt that 2 trends that we forecast could be split further to create 2 new topics that you might find interesting. These are uploaded onto Resources already with a ton of product pics so please check it out.
Also see “Whats inspiring us now” on the blog where we have uploaded the new topics.
Advocate art are currently in Frankfurt for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010
Our stand is displaying some of the best children’s book illustrators and artists in the business
The fair is taking place from the 6th to the 10th of October and everyone attending is invited to come along to our stand and meet some of the Advocate team and take a look at our fabulous work.
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