At Advocate art we are thrilled to announce that a children’s book illustrated by our very own Katie Saunders has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children’s book award in the Baby category. Katies book Touch and Explore Little Frog is full of touch and feel patches and textures engaging little ones. Last year over 5000 local children took part in the Book Award and Baby Book Award project making it one of the largest local authority schemes in the country. The children who read and voted for their favourite books also attended the award ceremony in Sheffield which was also attended by 15 of the shortlisted authors and illustrators. We are all very excited for Katie and we wish her the best of luck! If you would like to see more of Katie’s work click here to visit her online portfolio on the Advocate website.
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Katie Saunders book shortlisted for Sheffield Book Award!
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Advocate art at the Spring Fair!
Thursday, February 9th, 2012For the last week, Ed, Natasha and Kate have been representing Advocate art at the Spring Fair at the NEC in Birmingham. They went up on Saturday to set up our stand, filled with art prints and original works by our illustrators. With over 3000 exhibitors and 300,000 new products Spring Fair is Europe’s largest gift and home accessories show. Showcasing all the latest trends it is a chance to compare products from thousands of suppliers, whether from British or international companies. Spring Fair includes sectors in the following: greeting cards and stationery, art and framing, festive, floral, fashion, jewellery, toys, games, gifts and home, kitchen, dining and housewares. As you can see from the photos, Advocate’s stand is very busy and Ed and Natasha can be seen selling hard!
Advocate art at Paperworld, Frankfurt
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012This month Advocate art have been exhibiting at Paperworld in Frankfurt so Ed and Natasha flew out last week to set up the stand and prepare for the busy weekend! Paperworld is the world’s leading trade fair for the paper, office supplies and stationery sector; it is a great opportunity to network with market leaders as well as small companies. As well as this Paperworld boasts an extensive complementary programme including awards ceremonies, special shows, presentations and information events – this makes it a source of inspiration for the specialist trade. Paperworld runs a trend show which provides a detailed overview of the colours, motifs and materials for the upcoming year. Ed, Natasha and Hannah returned last week from a busy fair only to set off to Spring Fair in Birmingham this week! Check out the video below to see our agents in action.
Kate’s visit to the USA
Friday, January 27th, 2012Whilst Kate was in the USA she got a lovely welcome from one children’s book publisher – they put together a welcome board especially for her. Ed is very jealous, as for all the meetings he has been too he hasn’t had his name on a felt board for 20 years and Kate is straight on there! Below you can see the publishers pouring over the work, eagerly browsing the children’s book folios . It is great to see what Kate gets up to in her meetings and it just goes to show how important it is to keep your folio updated. So keep the work coming – we are constantly showing it off!
Kate Daubney’s Poodle Problem selected for Richard and Judy book club
Thursday, January 26th, 2012We are very excited to tell you that ‘The Poodle Problem’, a novel by Anna Wilson with cover illustrations by Kate Daubney has been selected as one of 10 books for the latest WHSmith Richard and Judy book club promotion. The promotion started today and runs until the 2nd May – they are running a multibuy offer with other titles as well, so you can get yourself a copy of this book for a great price! Kate Daubney is one of Advocate art’s top children’s illustrators so this is fantastic, if you would like to see more of her work click here to visit the Advocate art website. Read on to find out more about ‘Poodle Problem’ and click here to visit the retailer.
“Nine-year-old Pippa Peppercorn loves helping out at the only beauty salon in the quiet town of Crumbly-Under-Edge. A cosy joint run by the cuddly Mrs Semolina Ribena Fudge, customers and their pets stop by as much for the tea and sympathy as for a trim. But when rival beautician Trinity Meddler comes to town and sets up shop, Mrs Fudge is in danger of losing her customers. What’s more, Trinity has a sinister plan up her sleeve – involving oodles of poodles! Luckily Dash the talking dachshund, with a nose for sniffing out a good mystery, is on hand to save the day – with Pippa as his number-one assistant.”
Liza Lewis on Print and Pattern Blog
Thursday, January 26th, 2012One of Advocate arts fantastic children’s illustrators Liza Lewis has been featured on the Print and Pattern blog with four new prints she has designed for children’s wall art. Liza is a UK based designer and specialises in illustrating for greeting cards and for art licensing. Each print portrays a different animal doing something ridiculous, like a lion riding a motorbike! We think they are great and perfect for a child’s bedroom! Her prints are being sold by Oopsy Daisy, click here to see more. To see Liza’s online portfolio on the Advocate art website please click here.
New card designs please!
Thursday, January 19th, 2012It is the start of a new year and at Advocate we are busy preparing for all the shows we will be attending this year. With Paperworld, Frankfurt, Spring Fair, Surtex, Bologna Book Fair, London Book Fair, BEA and Brand Licensing, there is plenty of opportunity to showcase new artwork! We would love it if our illustrators can send in new card designs which we can make into ranges for the greeting card fairs. Our Resources section on the Advocate website has plenty of reference material to give you ideas and inspiration for new designs. Just go to the ‘About Us‘ page on the website and scroll down to the bottom of the page – alternatively click here. We can’t wait to see all your ideas!
Kate visits Americas Mart, Atlanta
Monday, January 16th, 2012Kate has been sending us photos from the US everyday, so we have been kept thoroughly up to date with how her trip is going! She spent a day at America’s Mart, Atlanta: America’s leading home furnishings and area rug marketplace and the largest trade mart/tradeshow complex of it’s kind in the world. It comprises of 4 buildings, making up a total of 7.7 million square feet! As you can see from the photo below - it’s something else isn’t it? With 15 annual shows it draws in 548,000 attendees every year. Kate has shot plenty of reference material – from christmas to everyday, stylish, vintage and retro – there are lots of ideas for greeting cards and designs for products. She also spotted Advocate artists work on a huge poster (see the photo below Kate).
We feature 6 times in Art Buyer magazine!
Friday, January 6th, 2012At Advocate art illustration agency we were very excited to open the winter issue of Art Buyer magazine and see that we are featured not once, not twice, but six times! Every issue, Art Buyer distributes a total of 11,500 copies; 2000 of these going to UK manufacturers, 1000 to the rest of the world and a further 8,500 going to Surtex and other licensing events including greetings, gifts, licensing and toy markets. Below you can see exactly where we are featured in the magazine and read some background information about Art Buyer. Click here to visit the Art Buyer website.
“Art Buyer is a magazine for the global art licensing industry, which is published twice a year in January and May. The January issue comes out before the Licensing Gallery and Spring Fair exhibitions, and the May issue two weeks before the essential New York Surtex exhibition and the Las Vegas Licensing Expo. Both issues feature dedicated and comprehensive show previews of these events.
Committed to design-conscious and creative licensing, the winter and spring/summer editions of Art Buyer also include plenty of other areas to get involved with. Our other features focus upon artists, agencies and what is happening in the market as a whole. We also round up the current news in the industry and then of course there are also all of our regular features: contributor’s articles, company profiles, artist spotlights and a unique section focussed on image libraries, which incorporates both illustrative and graphic art as well as classical and abstract photography.”
1. Inside front cover
2. Editor’s Letter (circled section), Page 5
3. Grisly Google, Page 6
4. Advocate Art, information for Spring Fair, Page 24
5. Get online, Page 25
6. A character with charisma by Edward Burns, Page 30
Jeremy Paul wins BBC Wildlife Artist award!
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012For the second year running, Advocate wildlife artist Jeremy Paul is a winner in the BBC wildlife artist of the year awards! His painting Southern Ocean – Wandering Albatross has won in the ‘Frozen Planet’ section, with Autumn Glow – Whooper Swans a runner up in the ‘Wildlife in its environment’ section. The competition is run by the BBC Wildlife magazine (it also runs the popular BBC wildlife photography competition) and is open to entries world-wide. They received over 1300 entries – of which about 60 were chosen for final judging – Presentations and an exhibition of the winning paintings from each category will take place at Marwell zoo in Hampshire in August, when the overall Wildlife artist of the Year will be announced. The winning paintings will also be published in the August issue of the magazine. Below you can see the winning images and a picture of Jeremy and his award. This is absolutely brilliant and thoroughly deserved so well done Jeremy! To go to Jeremy’s website click here.
Southern Ocean – Wandering Albatross – Winner of ‘Frozen Planet’ section
Autumn Glow – Whooper Swans – Runner up in ‘Wildlife in its environment’ section
Photos of winning paintings and presentation with TV presenter Mark Carwardine and Sophie Stafford from BBC Wildlife. (From left to right: Jeremy Paul, Sophie Stafford, Mark Carwardine).
Southern Ocean – Wandering Albatross in Art Business Today magazine.
Imitation of Jo Parry work in Beales
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011At Advocate art illustration agency we were shocked to hear from one of our illustrators Jo Parry that her artwork has been copied by a supplier of Beale’s department store “matop“. They have copied the whole set! Oh dear, I think they might be expecting a letter from Ed! Below you can see Jo Parry’s illustrations and the copy on a lap tray that is being sold in Beale’s.
If you want to visit the Beale’s facebook page where you can support Jo, click here. We need as many people to comment and ‘like’ it as possible!
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