WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Editorial
Our Editorial Category showcases the power of illustration. Capturing the complexities of the world in a way that’s both engaging, insightful and honest.
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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Science & Technology
Illustration is an amazing tool to help make complex ideas across Science and Technology tangible.
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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Children's Publishing
Our curated list of the 2025 Longlist continues, inspiring the next generation of young readers.
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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Book Covers
This years Longlist combines bold illustration with decisive design to showcase a wide range of narratives. The Book Cover category captures everything from haunting accounts of history to fantastical middle grade novels.
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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Animation
The Longlist has landed! We’ll be showcasing some of the fantastic entries selected for our Longlist, starting with the Animation category.
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WIA2025 Longlist announcement
The judges have made their decisions, and we are delighted to announce the 500-strong longlist for this year’s World Illustration Awards competition.
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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Advertising
The Longlist has landed! We’ll be showcasing some of the fantastic entries selected for our Longlist, starting with the Advertising category.
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Reflecting on The WIA2024 Touring Exhibition at the University of Central Lancashire
As we start judging the WIA2025 entries, we’ve been reflecting on the success of WIA2024 and the touring exhibitions.
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Illustrator Tips From WIA2024 Shortlisted Illustrators
As the judging process for WIA2025 gets underway, we thought it would be fun to reflect on advice shared by our WIA2024 Shortlisted Illustrators who were selected last year.
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AWARDS
The World Illustration Awards is a global celebration of illustration.
The Association of Illustrators has run a juried illustration competition since 1976. The latest incarnation, the World Illustration Awards in partnership with the Directory of Illustration, has been going strong and growing since 2015.
WIA focuses on supporting and celebrating creativity internationally, by connecting illustrators with their peers and the global illustration industry.
The Awards are split into two groups: New Talent and Professional. All work, commissioned or self-initiated, is accepted across the ten categories as long as it has been created within the past year before the Call for Entries closes.
If you have any questions get in touch with the awards team
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PRESENTED BY
The Association of Illustrators
The Association of Illustrators is the professional body for illustration in the UK. Established in 1973, the AOI champions illustrators and the illustration industry with education, promotion and campaigning to achieve a thriving industry for us all. Memberships are available for illustrators, agents and colleges with discounts available for students and represented artists.
Directory of Illustration
Workbook’s Directory of Illustration, the world’s leading illustration resource, is distributed free of charge to thousands of art commissioners who regularly hire freelance artists and animators. Advertising agencies, corporations and publishing companies depend on the searchable directoryofillustration.com website and annual printed Directory to find top talent for their campaigns and projects. In print, online and on social, we help artists successfully grow and sustain their professional careers.
