Illustrationintheworld

  Born in Kiev in 1897, Nathalie Parain studied at the Vkhutemas in Moscow. In the 1920s she moved to Paris with her husband, the philosopher Brice Parain. Inspired by constructivist theories, poster design and education, she started dedicating herself to illustration for children. In 1930 he illustrated Mon chat (My cat) written by André Beucler and published by Gallimard. Then she met the publisher and pedagogue Paul Faucher who offered her to illustrate for Les albums du Père Castor. Today Nathalie Parain is considered one of the major artists. It still has a great influence on contemporary children's picture books. It is the first definitive monograph on Nathalie Parain. It brings together illustrations, excerpts from books and unpublished material. Interviews with her daughter and texts written by children's literature experts offer insightful perspectives on her work.

  Derrick was born in Bristol in 1885 and was educated at Sidcot School. He trained as an artist at the Royal College of Art, later spending five years there as an instructor on the decorative arts.He married Margaret Clausen, the daughter of the painter George Clausen. His oil painting of the Judgment of Paris, painted in 1914 as a design for a mural, was given to the Brooklyn Museum of Art by Adolph Lewisohn in 1923, and exhibited there in 1925. In 1924 Derrick co-designed three posters for the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, and was the sole artist of a fourth in 1927. From 1931 he was active as a cartoonist, contributing to Punch, among other publications. He moved in broadly "traditionalist" artistic and intellectual circles, numbering among his friends Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ernest William Tristram, and Vincent McNabb, the last-named being the priest who received him into the Roman Catholic Church. His work also appe...

  Christophe Ferreira is a French illustrator and animator. As a child, he would watch cartoons on TV and try to draw them. A little further down the line, he'd practice on comic book albums that he'd borrow from the public library, namely Spiruo&Fantasio (Dupuis, Cinebook in English), Léonard (Le Lombard; Leonardo , Europe Comics), and, of course, Astérix . In 1991, he saw Akira at the movie theater, and that was really what tipped the balance for him in favor of a life in illustration.

  She’s a Senior c oncept a rtist from Sweden (at the monent she lives in Stoccolma) who works at the studio Ubisoft Stockholm.