Posts Tagged ‘Kate Johnson’
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Whilst 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!


Tags: advocate art, Freelance Illustrator, illustration agency UK, Kate Johnson
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Kate 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).

Tags: artist agency, Freelance Illustrator, Greeting Card Illustration, illustration agency UK, Kate Johnson
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Kate is updating us everyday with how she is getting on with all her meetings in the US, today she sent us a picture of her wheels! – Rather nice we think.

Tags: advocate art, illustration agency UK, illustrators, Kate Johnson
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Our senior agent
Kate is jet setting around the US this week, spending a few days in Boston before flying to Atlanta, meeting with lots of clients and showing off our
illustrators fantastic work. The grand entrance of this publishing house was slightly daunting for Kate’s first meeting! Obviously it’s not called The Big Fat Publishing House, but we don’t want to give too much information away just in case our competitors are reading . . . !
One lot of clients were so happy with our level of service and loved our
illustrators so much that they treated her to lunch . . . a new thing for Kate this year – fig pizza!
Tags: advocate art, art agency, artist agency, childrens book illustration, Freelance Illustrator, illustration agency UK, Kate Johnson
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
On Monday, Advocate’s senior agent Kate spent the day with illustrator Sarah Horne at the Nosy Crow christmas party in London. Nosy Crow publishes children’s books and iPad apps. The event was attended by many famous faces including Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and author Philip Ardagh – winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, he has written stories including The Grunts and the Eddie Dickens adventures. Sarah Horne, one of Advocate’s best selling children’s illustrators was there with Caryl Hart, author of one her recently illustrated books Rhino? What Rhino? From the photos it looks like they all had a great time!

Tags: advocate art, children's book illustrators, children's illustration, illustration agency, Kate Johnson, Sarah Horne
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Last week, Advocate’s senior agent Kate spent the day in London meeting with clients and networking and mingling at the Random House authors party in Knightsbridge. She went with Advocate children’s illustrator Julia Seal, who at the moment is working on a large series of books for a UK supermarket chain. Authors Jacqueline Wilson and Malorie Blackman were among the famous faces at the party.

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Friday, November 18th, 2011
At Advocate art, we love it when artists and illustrators come in to visit us and this Friday afternoon we had a lovely visit from Advocate illustrator Kathy Heaser and cute baby Miles. Kathy creates artwork for greeeting cards, posters and art licensing, if you want to see her work on the Advocate website then click here. As you can see from the photo we were all in need of a break! From left to right: Kathy Heaser, our agent Kate with Patch, baby Miles and Natasha.

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Friday, November 11th, 2011
This friday we learnt that our designer Pat is allergic to photos and if you photograph him he comes out in a rash! (we also saw him sneaking past with a cup of tea this afternoon thinking nobody had noticed) We got you!

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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.
Well done to everyone involved and a great show all round!
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
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
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
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.
Tags: advocate art, Book Expo, Edward Burns, Francois Aquesbi, illustration agency, Kate Johnson, On Tour, PG Live, Surtex
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
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