The AOI announces its winners for the World Illustration Awards 2015
The Association of Illustrators (AOI) has announced its winners for the World Illustration Awards 2015 and will hold an exhibition at Somerset House next month to celebrate. The extensive shortlist has been whittled down to 16 winners, in categories including; Editorial, Children’s Books, and Advertising.
The AOI has collaborated with the USA’s Directory of Illustration and Somerset House to create a more global representation of illustration and the work that will be presented is said to “recognise the exceptional work produced by illustrators… and promote illustration as an essential contributor to global visual culture.” All the winners can be viewed here, but highlights include Malika Favre for her BAFTA Film Awards brochures, João Fazenda for his Japanese folktale illustrations, and our very own It’s Nice That 2015 Grad, George Douglas for his surreal film posters in the New Talent category.
The World Illustration Awards 2015 exhibition will run at Somerset House from 5 October – 1 Novermber 2015.
The AOI Winners: João Fazenda, Japanese Folktales
The AOI Winners: George Douglas, Film Posters for Surreal Masterpieces
The AOI Winners: Verónica Grech, Little Blue
The AOI Winners: Pieter Van Eenoge, When we Pollute the Ocean we Pollute Ourselves
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Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.