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iTunes UK is featuring a number of Parragon children’s picture books in the iBook Store this week, including titles by Advocate’s very own freelance illustrators Simon Mendez, Mark Marshall and Mike Byrne! To see more click here
Archive for October, 2011
iBooks by Simon Mendez, Mike Byrne and Mark Marshall
Friday, October 28th, 2011Lynn Horrabin’s gorgeous gift bag
Thursday, October 27th, 2011Check out Advocate artist Lynn Horrabin’s lovely design that has been made into a gorgeous pink gift bag; covered in cute flowers and butterflies it is perfect for a girly gift!
Liza Lewis in Print and Pattern
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Advocate’s freelance illustrator Liza Lewis has recently featured in the new Print and Pattern book with her cute and quirky designs. She has done many greeting card commissions as well as designs for gift wrap and home furnishings. Her inspiration comes from her children, dog, books, toys, music, fabric and plants. We love her gorgeous patterns and illustrations and think her place in Print and Pattern is well deserved, well done Liza!
Martina Hogan in Greeting’s Today Magazine
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011New Advocate artist Martina Hogan has featured in Greeting’s Today Magazine with her super bright and quirky greeting cards. Her designs have been sold internationally onto greeting cards, home wares and paper products so all of us at Advocate are thrilled to welcome her on board. Martina describes her work as “full of smiles and happy thoughts – it’s great to know that there are people out there looking at my designs and thinking that they’re really cute and fun”. We agree Martina! To see more of Martina’s work on the Advocate website click here.
Puzzles by Marcello Corti and Simon Mendez
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Check out these fab new puzzles with illustrations by Advocate’s freelance illustrators Marcello Corti and Simon Mendez. The gorgeous christmas pictures look great as puzzles and will make very festive christmas gifts!
New faces at Advocate!
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011All of us at Advocate Illustration Agency are very excited to announce the addition of three new members to the Advocate team! After completing internships at the agency, Natasha Harding, Lauren Wood and Felicity French have all joined us. Natasha and Felicity have a background in illustration as they both studied a degree in the subject at the Arts University College at Bournemouth! Natasha is fast becoming a highly motivated and organised agent, liasing with clients, visiting fairs and talking to artists. Lauren graduated this year with a degree in Book Arts and Design from London College of Communication. She focused mainly on illustration and book-binding and is now our Project Co-ordinator. Her role involves tracking jobs, folio design, book-binding and working on the website. Felicity is the new Creative Assistant; she helps with some design, artist queries, and looks after the interns, all whilst blogging away!
Another famous face at Brand Licensing Europe 2011!
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011If you scroll down you will see that Advocate’s Ed met the Queen recently at Brand Licensing Europe 2011. Well it turns out the Queen wasn’t the only famous person to turn up! Check out the latest picture of Ed with David Beckham.
Frankfurt Book Fair 2011
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Advocate Art were in a prime location within Hall 8 this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011. Two of Advocate’s agents Kate and Hannah represented the team and it looks like they had a great time setting up their stand, networking, and enjoying the fair! Around 7,400 exhibitors from 106 countries were present, and with over 3,200 events taking place, the fair attracted 283,000 visitors! As well as exhibitors and visitors from the book industry, other related industries were also present including film, games, and information and communications technology. This year the Book Fair saw a 1 percent rise in visitors from 2010.
All of us at Advocate illustration agency were thrilled to see two of our Advocate illustrators Paul Nicholls and Alida Massari featured as the ‘best in the world’ on the Usborne stand! So a big well done to them!
Advocate artists Sarah Alcock, Bill Bolton and Simon Abbott featured heavily on the Bonnier Group Stand for Five Mile press/Autumn and Piccolia.
Well done to everyone involved and a great show all round!
Kat Davies Biography
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Advocate Illustration agency are extremely proud to represent our fabulous new wildlife artist Kat Davies. Kat has always had a passion for nature and animals and we are so pleased that she has used her love for animals to create these realistic pastel illustrations. We can see Kat’s work looking great on greeting cards, posters and even as a children’s book illustrations. Watch this space! Check out her bio below:
“Kat Davies is a wildlife artist working exclusively in pastel and specialising in big cats, embracing an extraordinary connection with lions, tigers, leopards and snow leopards.
As a child, Kat lived in Gibraltar and her earliest memories are of sights, sounds and smells far more exotic than those of her native country in England. Because of its close proximity to Northern Africa, the influence of that beautiful continent and its flora and fauna was inevitable.
It was only back in England, years later, that she knew art was her calling. Attracted by nature’s colour palette and an attention to fine detail, a realistic style seemed natural. Before long, a career in wildlife art was born, with a passion for conservation and love of animals at the heart of every painting.
Exhibitions include the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, Animal Art Adventure at Nantwich Museum, Marwell International Wildlife Art Society exhibition and several successful solo exhibitions, all raising funds for conservation causes. Kat is a Daler-Rowney featured artist and wildlife artist for DMC Creative World. www.katdavies.com.
Ed and Natasha meet the Queen at Brand Licensing Europe 2011!
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011At Brand Licensing Europe advertising agencies, promotional marketing executives and sales promotion agencies flood the decks to find well-known brands and characters for their promotional campaigns.
“From washing powder to spectacles and health clubs to cereals, TV and book characters are being used by switched-on sales promotion executives to stimulate consumer demand and boost product sales”
Our fantastic illustration agency, Advocate-Art has a stand at Brand Licensing this year, and as you can see from the photos there have been some very prestigious visitors so far! It is a fab place for illustration agencies like Advocate to exhibit artist work, meet new clients and widen our presence in the art world.
Brand Licensing Europe 2011 runs from the 18-20th October at the Grand Hall, Olympia in London, and to find out more click here.
Alison Edgson at The Edinburgh Book Festival 2011
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Advocate’s Alison Edgson has sent us some lovely photos from the Edinburgh Book Festival 2011. It looks like she had a fantastic time showing off her fab children’s book illustrations! Here is some more from Alison:
“Last weekend I went to Edinburgh Book Festival where I did an event in the RBS Imagination Lab with a fantastic big group of little girls (and one boy) accompanied by lots of mums (and about one dad!). We had story time, drawing and an ambitious craft session where the children all made fabulous furry mice, adding their own personal touches which never cease to amaze me! It was based on a book that I did the illustrations for – ‘A Little Fairy Magic‘ by Julia Hubery.”
Click here to go to Alison’s blog!
Andreas von Cotta-Schonberg Biography
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Advocate illustration agency are really proud to represent new freelance illustrator Andreas von Cotta-Schonberg. Andreas specialises in realistic fantasy, portraying aliens, vikings, animals and rugged landscapes which will be perfect for art licensing, poster design, books, graphic novels, and even greeting cards. His bio is posted below:
“There is so much you can say with the simple application of color and value to a surface, and I am a firm believer that any good piece of art should have something to say. A story if you will.
Not neccesarily the kind with a beginning and an ending, but stories that can be told in the blink of an eye, and in the reflections and emotions it leaves.
I believe, that being a good illustrator means walking a narrow path between developing and growing your skills, in order to convey your desired message or story, but also to have a curious and playful mind, in order to have something worth saying.
Stray too far to either side, and you risk losing focus on your actual task at hand, which should be to create beautiful and meaningful art.
I could be wrong, but still, this is where I strive to be.
Andreas von Cotta-Schonberg, age 35, Living and working out of Copenhagen, Denmark.”
