25 June 2018
Summer has arrived and Bright books are in bloom! From exciting new debuts to award-winning talent across picture books and children’s fiction, it’s a joy to see so many beautiful new titles from our brilliant authors and illustrators publishing in the UK over the summer.
21 June 2018
Karl James Mountford is one of Bright’s most successful and instantly recognisable artists. His distinctive visual language channels a retro aesthetic that, while acknowledging the legacy of some of the true greats of the illustrative and animation ‘canon’, is never cosily nostalgic, and which makes striking use of an often limited palette and wonderfully textural, hand-rendered effects - all delivered with an undercurrent of the ever-so-slighly-unnerving…
20 June 2018
Hugely talented hand-lettering artist and illustrator, Migy Blanco was commissioned via LA-based design company Struck Inc to rejuvenate the interior working environment of one of Pinterest’s US bases with an exclusive and entirely unique mural.
07 June 2018
Amway Japan incorporated artwork by talented illustrator Mouni Feddag to create this beautiful packaging for a range of ‘My Beauty Box’ skincare products.
04 June 2018
Ahead of the winners’ announcement this week, we take a look at our fab four Bright artists’ shortlisted for the prestigious prize: Ashling Lindsay, Benji Davies, Flavia Sorrentino and Paddy Donnelly.
15 May 2018
We are delighted and immensely proud that Bright artist Laura Hughes has won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018 alongside author John Dougherty with their original and witty picture book ‘There’s A Pig Up My Nose!’, published by Egmont.
14 May 2018
Bryony Clarkson is one of Bright’s newest talents. Having graduated from Loughborough College of Art with an emphasis in textiles before studying for an MA at the Royal College of Art in London, she has now switched her focus from fabrics to work with a mixture of cut paper collage and digital techniques.
01 May 2018
Jane Newland has proved a true illustration sensation, with her joyful, colour-suffused artwork bringing an irresistible mix of imagination and observation to a host of design outcomes.
27 April 2018
Olga’s artwork reminds me of books from my childhood: Eerie Fairytales, sometimes with a dark undertone, sometimes other-worldly, and now and again just beautifully nostalgic, homely and warm. I think of artists like Kit Williams, who wrote the very famous Masquerade in the 1970s, which I would spend hours looking at, trying to find the clues, and the famous realist painter, Anthony Green, who’s paintings defy the contraints of a rectangle or square, capturing snippets of his life with perspectives all askew. LM
24 April 2018
Hugely popular across a diverse range of products areas with her signature style that combines intricately-detailed, painterly and almost meditative mark-making with an irresistibly narrative appeal, Bright artist Jane Newland has now been commissioned to create a series of seasonally-inspired designs for luxury chocolate brand, Leonidas.
13 April 2018
After another year of unsettling world political and economic shifts, and an exponential growth in the role of the digital in everyday life, design trends for 2018 seem focused on recapturing a sense of what is tangible and secure.
13 April 2018
Bright prides itself on developing stand-out illustration and author and illustrated works with its diverse and talented roster of artists. We know how much work goes into the publication of a picture book, from all parties involved, to the moment a book is purchased and a child opens the front cover and falls in love with another story.
