We are delighted to announce the World Illustration Awards 2018 shortlist!
The Awards received a record 3,000+ entries from 75 countries.
The full list of entries is below and you can view them here: theaoi.com/wia
5bluewishes
Montreux Comedy Festival 2017 posters
Advertising Professional
Agatha O.
HILLA
Experimental Professional
Ahra Kwon
The Annals of Joseon Dynasty
Children’s Books Professional
Aleesha Nandhra
The Big Sleep
Design Professional
Alessandra Criseo
Black & Blue
Design Professional
Alessandra Vitelli
La Valise d’Osvaldo
Children’s Books Professional
Alex Leung
Natural Liquefaction
Experimental Professional
Alistair Williams
A Human Movement
Editorial New Talent
Allan Sanders
The Alphabet of Alphabets
Children’s Books Professional
Amalia Mora
Maria Callas
Books Professional
Ana Jaks
House of Us
Site Specific New Talent
Ana Teresa Rego
Mamalan collage
Site Specific New Talent
Andre Carrilho
Misguided Faith
Editorial Professional
Andrea
The Fear of Heights
Editorial Professional
Andreea Dobrin Dinu
Art Safari 2017 illustrations
Advertising New Talent
Andrew Archer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly published by The Folio Society
Books Professional
Andrey Kamenetskiy
Symphony of War
Experimental New Talent
Andy Smith
Summer its a really big deal
Advertising Professional
Anja Nolte
Urban Sketching München
Books Professional
Ann Kiernan
People and Power
Editorial New Talent
Anthony Zinonos
bigSWELL
Experimental Professional
Antione Corbineau
Les villes du monde (Cities of the world)
Children’s Books Professional
Ashling Lindsay
The Night Box
Children’s Books Professional
Asillo
The beauty of building nature
Experimental New Talent
Avery Kua
Reflection
Editorial New Talent
B
My brain
Experimental New Talent
Balbusso Twins
Portraits of Dublin’s famous historical characters
Books Professional
Balbusso Twins
Make the earth your companion
Children’s Books Professional
Balbusso Twins
The Handmaid’s Tale
Experimental Professional
Belle Mellor
Sexual harassment at work
Editorial Professional
Ben Tallon
Dr.Martens Stand For Something boot collaboration.
Experimental Professional
Benji Davies
The Grotlyn
Children’s Books Professional
Bin Qian
Pineapple
Research Professional
Boo Paterson
Travel by Life Raft
Experimental Professional
Book of Lai
360 Tiny Living Space
Experimental Professional
Carol Adlam
Thinking Room
Research Professional
Caroletta
About Meat
Design Professional
Charlie Padgett
Drowning in Denial
Research Professional
Charlotte Ager
Pop up store Facade for Rimowa
Site Specific New Talent
Charlotte Milner
The Bee Book
Children’s Books Professional
Chen Wu
Eggs
Editorial New Talent
Christopher Darling
Illustration Education For the Incarcerated
Research Professional
Cinyee Chiu
Acknowledgement
Advertising New Talent
Claudine O’Sullivan
Jameson Limited Edition Bottle 2018
Advertising Professional
Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Worm and the Bird
Books Professional
Cornelia Li
Returning
Editorial Professional
Courtney Dyer
Ruth Mastenbroek Signature
Design New Talent
Daisy Hirst
I DO NOT LIKE BOOKS ANYMORE!
Children’s Books Professional
Dàlia Adillon
Amelia Earhart Little Guides to Great Lives
Children’s Books Professional
Dani Choi
They Named Me Kumiko
Books New Talent
Dave Homer
AT&T – The Zac Posen Network
Advertising Professional
Del Hambre
GREENPEACE: 2017 CALENDAR
Design Professional
Dominick Santise
Stop The Press
Books Professional
Doug John Miller
The Bao Trio
Design New Talent
Eleanor Hardiman
Onsen
Experimental Professional
Eleonora Kolycheva
Map of Tartu
Design Professional
Elise Boutros
Escape
Experimental New Talent
Ella Nitters Medical Art
Microsurgery of a Rat
Research New Talent
Elsa Klever
Victor the mischievous taxi driver
Children’s Books Professional
Emiliano Ponzi
The Great New York Subway Map
Children’s Books Professional
Esteban Millan Pinzon
The Eternal Walker
Books New Talent
Esther Goh
EMOJIWORLD
Editorial Professional
Esther Goh
A Feathery Trail of Adventures
Site Specific Professional
Fatinha Ramos
Migration to Europe
Editorial Professional
Fatinha Ramos
FEAR
Editorial Professional
Federica Del Proposto
The Summer Series
Experimental Professional
Fifi Kuo
Everyone Can Draw
Children’s Books New Talent
flavia sorrentino
Portrait of woman – Isadora Duncan
Research Professional
fungtaitau
Spatial Practice
Research Professional
Genis Carreras
Too much food
Editorial Professional
Gilles & Cecilie Studio
Heart in the City
Site Specific Professional
Giordano Poloni
C’est toi mon papa?
Children’s Books Professional
GREGORI SAAVEDRA
SHUSH
Site Specific Professional
Hanane Kai
Children in our World
Children’s Books Professional
Hannah Rollings
Freedom To Express Yourself – an Inspiration Notebook
Books Professional
Hernan Valencia Illustration+Design
Brewing Process
Design Professional
Iain Cox
The world of Lanphen
Experimental Professional
Ilaria Faccioli
CHILD POVERTY
Research Professional
Ilaria Urbinati
forever love
Editorial Professional
Iria Prol
Industrias PROA
Site Specific Professional
Irma Gruenholz
Pregnant
Experimental Professional
Irma Gruenholz
Fruit of the Forest
Experimental Professional
Itamar Makover
Dov Gummy @ Breakfast Club
Advertising New Talent
Jaime Sanjuan
Fingerpainting Illustrations
Experimental Professional
James Dallimore
Bringing in the Catch
Research New Talent
Jas.Lkw
Tasting the Forbidden Apple
Books New Talent
Jessica Emmett
Texture Monster – Flora
Experimental Professional
Jilipollo
The Battle the test hides
Editorial Professional
Jim Butler
Blackrock Sequence
Books Professional
Jip
Inappropriate grandma
Experimental New Talent
JiYun Song
Cheol-E’s Trip
Children’s Books New Talent
Joanne Morris
Be Amazing
Experimental Professional
Joe Gamble
Martha’s Moths
Children’s Books Professional
Joey Guidone
Yes We Share
Advertising Professional
Jorrien Peterson
Map of the World
Design Professional
Josie Shenoy
The National Archives: The Buildings That Made London
Children’s Books Professional
Juliana Aschwanden-Vilaça
Tortuga erforscht die Evolution. Über die Vielfalt der Natur. (“Tortuga research the evolution. A book about the nature diversity.”)
Children’s Books New Talent
Julie Marabelle
Copenhagen map
Design Professional
Julie Wilkinson / Makerie Studio
Circling
Experimental Professional
Julie Wilkinson / Makerie Studio
Manifestation
Experimental Professional
Käthrine Yan
Are you keeping an eye on the time?
Site Specific New Talent
Katja Grosskinsky
Magister Ludi
Design New Talent
Kotryna Zukauskaite
Pregnancy can be pretty rough. Let’s be more honest about it.
Editorial Professional
Kotryna Zukauskaite
What yogis know
Research Professional
Ksenia Kopalova
Everyday tales
Site Specific New Talent
Ksenia Volkova
Farewell
Experimental New Talent
La Boca
TFL Safety Posters
Advertising Professional
Lara Hawthorne
The Night Flower
Children’s Books Professional
Laszlo Balogh
Knights of Autumnland
Books New Talent
Leah Bury
Love for Science
Research New Talent
Lennart Gäbel
Surreal White House
Editorial Professional
Leon Edler
The Girl who Couldn’t Wake Up
Editorial Professional
Lianne Dias
Fake News
Editorial Professional
Lilly Friedeberg and Alessia Sistori
Island Jack´s
Advertising New Talent
Lore Mondragon
The Ocean
Experimental New Talent
Loris F. Alessandria
Adobe – Education Exchange
Advertising Professional
Loris F. Alessandria
National Film Board Canada – Ocean iBook
Children’s Books Professional
Louise Rosenkrands
Ærøskøbing Tourist map/poster
Advertising Professional
Lucille Clerc
The Jungle Book
Children’s Books Professional
Lucio Zago
Williamsburg Shorts
Books New Talent
magoz
Do you have questions? Ask!
Advertising Professional
Magoz
Fishing
Experimental Professional
Malota
La Imprenta Notebooks
Design Professional
Malota
LOBO
Design Professional
Manuel Kilger
ZEFIX
Editorial Professional
Marco Oggian
Stay true and don’t forget the roots
Site Specific Professional
Marcus Walters
Tate Kids
Design Professional
Matthew the Horse
Forwards Always – Poems to be read aloud
Books Professional
Medy Oberendorff
The Wondrous book of insects (Het wonderlijke insectenboek)
Books Professional
Michael Glenwood
Museum Piece
Editorial Professional
Michael Parkin
Dinosnores
Advertising Professional
Michela Baso
NEL BUIO
Children’s Books New Talent
Miguel Bustos
Mogollón
Children’s Books Professional
Miguel Bustos
(a)phonica 2017
Design Professional
Miguel Bustos
Sala Ciutat
Site Specific Professional
Mikyung Lee
Odyssey
Experimental New Talent
Mikyung Lee
The Lake
Experimental New Talent
Minet Mingyeong Kim
a bubble bath
Editorial New Talent
Monika Vaicenaviciene
What is a River?
Children’s Books New Talent
Monney Medical Media
Under the microscope
Research Professional
MYO YIM
The forest of the night
Children’s Books New Talent
Natasa Ilincic
Threading Thunder
Books Professional
Nix Ren
Zoom
Books New Talent
Ollanski
JUST A GAME
Editorial Professional
Otoshimono
The Illustrator
Design Professional
Owen Davey
Facebook Fundraisers
Editorial Professional
Owen Gildersleeve
Fanta Mashup
Advertising Professional
Owen Gildersleeve
Outside Lands Poster
Advertising Professional
Pablo Salvaje
Animalkind
Children’s Books Professional
Paddy Donnelly
Little Red Riding Hood
Experimental Professional
Panyeung CHAN
Silver Economy of the “Young-Old”
Editorial Professional
Pâté
The YouTube algorithms that seduce our children.
Editorial Professional
Paul Blow
Early marriage: the price of childhood?
Editorial Professional
Paul Garland
Taming Opioids
Research Professional
Paul Thurlby
National Treasures
Site Specific Professional
Peichi Wu
The exhibition of Architect of God
Advertising Professional
Pete Reynolds
Teresa’s Story
Advertising Professional
PETER RA
CONQUISTADOR
Experimental Professional
Publica
Place Spaces Work: The Creative Industries in London
Research Professional
Rachel Burlington
Into The Forest
Children’s Books New Talent
Rebecca Hendin
Witchy Animals
Research Professional
Richard Johnson
Once Upon a Snowstorm
Children’s Books Professional
Rina Jost
Book Festival Frauenfeld
Advertising Professional
Robert Hunter
Elbow ‘Little Fictions’
Design Professional
Rod Hunt
Let’s Fix Our Relationship With Electronics
Research Professional
Sam Kalda
Of Cats and Men: History’s Great Cat-loving Artists Writers Thinkers and Statesmen.
Books Professional
Sandra Dieckmann
LEAF
Children’s Books Professional
Shih-Hsien Hsu
Nordic Happiness
Books New Talent
Small Media
#IranVotes2017 // Analysing the 2017 Iranian Presidential Elections through Telegram Twitter and Instagram
Editorial Professional
Sonia Alins
Water Women 2017
Experimental Professional
Stephen Maurice Graham
Urban Anxiety
Design Professional
Stevie Gee
Stella McCartney Kids packaging
Design Professional
Stevie Gee and Nicos Livesey
Here to Create – Adidas
Advertising Professional
Stuart McReath
RNLI Saving lives at sea
Advertising Professional
Sujo
Me and Me
Children’s Books Professional
Sun Yunfan
R.U.R.
Design Professional
Susan Haejin Lee
Now Boarding
Children’s Books New Talent
Susan Marie Brown
Art Interruptions 2017 – Wild & Creative Wonders
Site Specific Professional
Sveta Dorosheva
Jefferson’s Bourbon Alchemy Ads
Advertising Professional
Sveta Dorosheva
Grown Up Words
Design Professional
Tamar Tal-El
A Giraffe Came to Visit Me
Children’s Books New Talent
Tatjana Junker
Science of SAD
Editorial New Talent
Terence Eduarte
100 Days Of Secrets
Experimental Professional
Thereza Rowe
In the Woods
Children’s Books Professional
Tim Easley
Foot Locker Rome
Site Specific Professional
Timo Meyer
Weapons of Reason magazine
Editorial Professional
Toby Leigh
ABC for Adults
Books Professional
Tom Cole
Discovery Express
Children’s Books Professional
Tommy Parker
The Disability Diaries
Editorial Professional
Val Catto
The green firefly
Design New Talent
Xiao Lei
Owls of the World
Books New Talent
Yael Hertzog
Illustrated Swimwear Catalogue
Advertising Professional
Yifan Wu
26 Dangerous Things
Design New Talent
Ying-Hsiu Chen
Infographic of Port of Kaohsiung
Research Professional
Yolanda Leung
Promo-granate Park
Research New Talent
Yukai Du
An Anthology
Experimental Professional
Yunjung Ryu
GRACE CODDINGTON
Editorial New Talent
ZHANG YULIAN
BOTLLE HUMANS
Experimental Professional
Zoë van Dijk
The Lotus Eater
Experimental Professional
Congratulations to all of those shortlisted!