New Image: PAUL TEMPLE & THE MADISON MYSTERY

Ivan Allen: 'Paul Temple is a character by radio writer Francis Durbridge. The illustrations for the series of BBC audiobook CD, had to evoke the mood, plus the adventure and action of the stories.'

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New Image: GRANNY'S FRONT ROOM

Cyrus Deboo: 'This direct mail project was commissioned by Lida. A series of 6 illustrations for a Vodafone mail pack ‘A squillion styles of broadband chairs’, to promote the use of your laptop anywhere.'

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New Image: HOSPITALITY TRAINING

Stephanie Strickland: 'Design and marketing agency ClaytonGiles saw my work on AOI Portfolios and asked me to create these illustrations for their client HIT (Hospitality Industry Training).'

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Inspirations

Just how do illustrators come up with those ideas? What is it that informs and inspires their creations? This new popular column on AOI Portfolios attempts to answer some of those questions by exploring the influences of illustrators who work within a similar discipline. This month, three illustrators who work with collage talk about their inspirations.

"I can still remember seeing for the first time, in reference books, compelling examples of Rothko (the Seagram Murals) and Roualt (The Old King) - they remain memorable and amongst my favourites still.
Kim McGillivray: see and read more

"I was first impressed by their use of colour, especially Eva Ryn; she uses really strong vibrant colours and textures in her work. This is something that still inspires me today."
Jennifer Dunn: see and read more

"What appealed to my eye in the work of graphic artists like Semyon Semyonev and Georgii & Vladimir Stenberg is the strength of composition, a strong dynamic graphic structure holding the separate elements together."
Paul Bateman: see and read more

Featured: EDA AKALTUN

Eda's work has been exhibited at D&AD New Blood, London Design Week, and at the Illustrative Zurich 08 exhibition where she was one of 20 illustrators selected from a worldwide pool of submissions.

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Featured: JENNY LLOYD

Jenny's style is modern and accessible, with a fresh, delicate, feminine edge, and takes inspiration from many sources, including Japanese art prints, Art Nouveau, and the natural world.

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Featured: PAUL WOOTTON

Paul uses a wide variety of software to achieve the desired effect and happily combines them to produce a versatile range of imagery ranging from line-work and flat colour styles to 3d photorealism.

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New Portfolios

Welcome to February's new Portfolio subscribers, Gary Fernandez, Alyana Cazalet, Simon Deshon, Jamie Smart, Penny Dann, Sara Hingle, Alexis Goodwin, Shailesh Khandeparkar, Paul Nicholson, Aasha, Emma Jeffery, Rowan Newton, Matthew Hollings, Vince Reid, David Cardy, Alicja Ostrowska, Hannah Robinson, Dennis Juan Ma, Rachel Oxley, Xiao Xin, Xiao Zhou, Nick Diggory.