Discover some fantastic highlights from the WIA2022 Professional Design, Product and Packaging longlist in this curated list

The AOI has forged and ongoing partnership with the Shenzhen Illustration Association to present a touring exhibition of WIA winning and highly commended projects across China.

Design shapes our visual world, with illustration used for branding, products, logos, packaging, posters and many more applications.

Featuring commissioned and prospective illustration projects aimed at the commercial market for fiction, reference books, graphic novels or other publishing.

Featuring prospective illustration projects aimed at the commercial market for fiction, reference books or graphic novels or other publishing.

From innovative work to portfolio pieces, the exploration category encourages a huge range of illustration designed to explore the medium, techniques and ideas.

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.

From innovative work to portfolio pieces, the exploration category encourages a huge range of illustration designed to explore the medium, techniques and ideas.

From limited edition artist books and graphic novels, to self published works that play with traditional book formats.

Whether you are just starting out as an illustrator, are a mid-careerist, it’s important to maintain a well balanced and skilled freelance lifestyle between your creative and business sides.