AOI Member Award Cross-Category Shortlist
Meet the 11 illustrators shortlisted for the WIA2024 AOI Members Cross Category Award. Selected by our very own AOI Membership team.
Image Credit: Amber Au – The Blue Tomato
This year the winner of The AOI Members Award Cross-Category award will win a year-long AOI Membership plus a Folio, offering both ongoing support and promotion.
Along with this the winner will win a copy of The Guide to Law, the vital guide to the Business side of Illustration, written by illustrators for illustrators.
Our winner will also receive access to the current Directories, with a list of commissioners across the industry in Advertising, Editorial and Publishing.
Finally the winner will be featured on the AOI website with written profile, showcasing the winner to our platform of industry members. We’re thrilled to equip our winner with every tool they’ll need to blossom in the illustration industry.
We’ll be sharing the winner at the WIA2024 Awards Ceremony on 10th September!
Amber Au
The Blue Tomato
Embracing Individuality, this heartwarming picture book explores self-acceptance and the importance of embracing who we are.
We follow a blueberry who embarks on a journey to find a way to become red.
The playful use of character design creates a deep sense of empathy for our main character. Whilst the use of scale and composition takes us on a dynamic journey.
Amber Au is an illustrator from Hong Kong.
Kürsat Ünsal
Coffee Door
These eye-catching packaging designs for coffee brand Coffee Door showcases a charming neighbourhood scene, Features a variety of people enjoying coffee at their windows.
Using a minimalistic two colour approach the designs create a modern, fresh and cohesive look.
This innovative approach to the shape of each product, creates something entirely new. Showcases the power of illustration in design product and packaging.
Kürsat Ünsal is an illustrator based in Turkey.
FANGFANG HAN
The Tube
Inspired by a museum visit to the London Transport Museum, this beautiful animation celebrates the 160th anniversary of the London Tube.
This vibrant animation explores how sounds tell stories and bring joy, making the subway a more human place.
The illustration perfectly captures the bustling daily life of the London Tube and spotlights the unnoticed details that make everyday beautiful.
Fangfang Han is an illustrator based in London.
Kati Närhi
Muukalainen (The Stranger)
This picture book tells a story from an introvert’s view. Exploring how people can have opposite personalities yet still find a common ground and a friendship.
The illustrations were created entirely by layering with four colours.
The striking use of colour creates bold illustrations whilst capturing the change in atmosphere from quiet moments, to loud and bold intrusions.
Kati Närhi is an illustrator based in Helsinki.
Owen Davey
Can I Come Too?
A beautiful book exploring the relationship of siblings. Directly inspired by Owen watching how his children played together and finding a fresh perspective on his own childhood.
The colour palette is bold and vibrant, creating an immersive world for us to dive into.
Each animal has a bold graphic style, using angular shapes to create playful heartwarming characters.
Owen Davey is an Illustrator based in Worthing, UK.
Glen McBeth
Roman Armpits
What did they do for deodarant in the olden days?
Glen’s was commissioned to illustrate an article for BBC History Magazine that asked what people used before deodorants.
Inspired by a quote form Roman poet Ovid, who in ‘The Art of Love’, said that one should ‘avoid against letting the ‘rude goat’ find its way beneath your arms.’ Drawing ‘rude goats’ under someone’s armpits was Glen’s way in!
Glen McBeth is an illustrator based in the UK.
River Jiang
DO DONT
Inspired by the dynamic symbols that permeate our everyday lives. From road signs to instruction manuals, rules are the unspoken norm.
This beautiful book looks to change the status quo, as each page turn breaks the previous page’s rules, urging viewers to confront and question often unnoticed conventions.
Using a screen print the acrylic cover and coptic binding the book has a tactile zine-like feel that feels unique and against the grain adding to the subject matter.
Whilst playful visual metaphors create dream like illustrations that flip everything on It’s head!
River Jiang is an based in London.
Erne Vigo
Climate Change
Created for an MA Illustration project, the goal was to give share how Climate change affects lives across the world.
Erne found that as a Mexican artist it was very evident that the changes in climate done by urban lifestyles and cities affect rural communities much more acutely.
The soft, unsaturated colour palette creates a somber mood of devastation.
Erne Vigo is an illustrator based in Mexico city.
Jake Hawkins
Callipygian Figure
This bold illustration explores the sculptural aspects of the male form.
Using a dynamic composition, highlighting crops of the body this illustration has a playful feel.
Created using Procreate on the iPad Pro, this project takes inspiration from early queer printed media and vintage “beefcake photography”
Jake Hawkins is an Illustrator based in London.
Doug John Miller
Lithium and Beyond
This series of illustrations was commissioned for Chemistry World magazine to illustrate the changing world of battery technology and the huge implications that the use of lithium has on our daily lives and the global landscape.
The primary goal was to play with scale and detail to make the humble battery jump off the page.
The highly detailed illustration captures a complex subject matter into something that’s engaging and insightful.
Doug John Miller is an illustrator based in the UK.
Jasmine Hortop
I am here, I am safe, I am brave, we are together
This beautiful project was created as a piece of artivism to prompt conversation following a 3 month immersive art residency with CIC Reclaim The Sea in Plymouth.
The organisation work with refugees and asylum seekers with sea trauma, to reclaim the sea as a safe space through teaching swimming and surfing.
This powerful piece of work brings attention to the important work of RTS, while raising awareness of sea trauma of migrants.
Jasmine Hortop is an illustrator based in Cornwall.
If you enjoyed reading this curated list, be sure to keep explore the rest of the WIA2024 Shortlist Showcase. We will be adding materials until September.
We’ll be sharing the winner of The AOI Members Cross Category Award at the WIA Awards Ceremony on 10th September 2024.
Stay up to date with the latest news on the World Illustration Awards by signing up to our mailing list!
Back to News Page