Raymond Briggs 1934 – 2022

Renowned for his hugely successful picture books, AOI Patron Raymond Briggs who died on 9th August, embraced warmth and relationships in his works, but also loss and death, avoiding sentimentality, and he never denied being a fairly curmudgeonly person.

Artificial Intelligence and images

The launch of DALLE-2 (an Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme that creates images from text captions) raises questions on how such technology could impact illustrators.

Inside Illustration Course members’ illustrations

As part of the Inside Illustration Editorial Season we created a Creative Practice Course along with illustrator Dave Bain. This was an opportunity for AOI members to hear from experienced editorial illustrators and explore responses to briefs set by these guest illustrators.

Universal Credit: are you affected by the rule change?

The Department of Work and Pensions has announced changes to Universal Credit requirements. The changes mean the DWP can now make claimants start to look for any job after four weeks of receiving benefits, instead of the current three months. Are you impacted?

Pay the Creator campaign

Pay the Creator is a Creators’ Rights Alliance campaign highlighting the disparity between creators and other sector workers in the areas of pay, business support and policy making.

Inside Illustration launches

Inside Illustration is a new multi-platform season for AOI Members launching today focussing on a particular area of illustration for each Season.