Chocks away!  Middlesex University students have collaborated with the Royal Airforce museum at Hendon airfield to produce an online interactive graphic novel relating the history of the airfield from the early 1900’s to the present day.

Warning: graphic content!

Illustrator and Artist Polly Nor describes Instagram as the vital element in the making of Art as a viable career for herself and talks to us about her new exhibition at Protein Studios.

We talk to AOI Patron Tony Ross about his new anti-war book. Douglas just wants to fit in but in ant society you are what you are pre-destined to be, and the colony want him to be a soldier…

Bristol-based Member James Davies was the perfect candidate to fill the position of Illustrator of the Month in light of all the creative activity appearing in the West of England this October

Kick starting an awesome few days of illustration events in Dublin, is our all new business masterclass – essential for all image makers! An Evening Masterclass with the AOI –..

Sarah Habershon is Art Director of G2 at the Guardian. She commissioned Tommy Parkers’ World Illustration Awards shortlisted entry “The Disability Diaries”. Here we take the opportunity to talk to her about her career in commissioning illustration, and the challenges of editorial illustration times.

Peter Cross, Customer Experience Director at John Lewis Partnership, commissioned Paul Thurlby’s World Illustration Award winning project National Treasures. Find out more about the commissioning process in this insightful interview.

In this industry insight we talked to Jeremy Wortsman of Jacky Winter about the Australian illustration scene, working globally, geographical trends and the secret to a long career, “Everyone needs to spin a lot of different plates to survive!”

From ‘Down Under’, AOI member Andrea Innocent lives and works as part of the Illustration scene in Melbourne. She describes her travelling years in Japan and how its historical art style influenced her own practice, plus the journey to finding satisfaction and grounding in teaching and leading workshops in Australia.

The Folio Society who are committmed to publishing quality illustrated books, are profiled in the Love issue. We talk to illustrators Victo and Paul about the experience of working with the esteemed publisher.

‘There is a groundswell zeitgeist perspective shift occurring. But much too slowly in my opinion.’ The superstar illustrator on his enthusiasm for tackling political and social issues with image and comment.

The AOI are pleased to be joined by Member Jiyeun Kang at Seoul Illustration Fair this month. Come and meet us at the World Illustration Awards booth where we can answer (in English and Korean) any of your questions about your career in Illustration.

Membership Assistant Marianna Madriz not only supports AOI Members week by week, but she also skilfully balances her workload as a freelance Illustrator. We celebrate the launch of her first illustrated children’s book Little Guides to Great Lives: Frida Kahlo and go behind the scenes of the book.

We talk to Animation Director and Illustrator Stevie Gee about his success in Design, Advertising and Music, as well as a variety of weird and wonderful products. Also highlight his triumphant win(s) at the World Illustration Awards.

This year’s New Talent Design Category winner is Katja Grosskinsky with her project: Magister Ludi

Illustrator and Animator Rune Fisker is a Coperhagen-based and Danish born designer, who’s dynamic compositions and vivid colours caught the eye of the AOI team and led to animated dialog for June’s Member of the Month.

Shih-Hsien Hsu is the New Talent Books category winner for his project ‘Nordic Happiness’.

Your immersive snapshot into the nation’s emergent creative design talent will be coming to New Designers this summer, for two weeks from 27-30 June & 4-7 July.

Payments are now available in Euro as well as Pounds! It’s never been easier to join the AOI, with payment in 12 affordable instalments over the year to ease your cashflow.

Rosanna Webster often consults with us using her illustrator membership in business, pricing and negotiation on some complex and always interesting commissions. A few years back a moving image commission by Stella McCartney propelled her work to the fore and led to a range of opportunities.

“Nobrow has stood out in this last decade by placing quality production values at the core of its ethos: lusciously printed books in offset or spot colours, exciting new formats..

Members are the very backbone of this organisation and we are always looking to showcase and share illustrators more. We are delighted to showcase Robert Sae-Heng’s beautiful work online in this monthly feature.

As the Made In North Korea exhibition opens at House of Illustration we ask curator Olivia Ahmad about the contents of the show, and how it came about. From hand painted posters and comics via packaging and postards, it reveals work you’ll never have seen!

Last year we helped AOI Member James Davies price a book project he was just about to develop. Fast forward to 2018 and this project has now been released by Big Picture Press as Meet the…: a book series exploring ancient civilisations such as the Romans and Egyptians. James gives us a behind the scenes of the book process.

We spoke to Sam Pierpoint, whose innovative papercut illustrations for wine company Ten Miles East and a project for Visit Bristol were both shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2017

Yesterday, 1st of February, was #HourlyComicDay: a global challenge where artists create and share a comic for every hour they’re awake. We round up 10 comics for you to enjoy.