V&A Illustration Awards 2003

The 2003 Awards overall winner received £2,500. The two second prize winners each received £1,000. Commended winners each received £250.

Overall Winner

Nick Maland for You've Got Dragons

(author Kathryn Cave, London, Hodder Children's Books, 2002)

Nick Maland studied English & drama at London University, graduating in 1981. He first pursued a career in the theatre, acting and directing in the London fringe. Developing an interest in drawing at this time, he soon became a full-time illustrator. He is known for his work on children's picture books.

Maland was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award in 1996 and the Children's Book Award in 1998. The American Parenting Magazine gave him an award for Big Blue Whale. He has collaborated on several picture books with author Kathryn Cave, You've Got Dragons being their third.

Second Prize (Books)

Claudio Muñoz for Night Walk

(author Jill Newsome, London, Anderson Press, 2002)

Claudio Muñoz was born and raised in Chile but now lives in Britain. He has illustrated over ten children’s books and also works as an editorial illustrator and cartoonist for several leading newspapers and magazines including The Economist. His work is known internationally.

His children's illustrations have been shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and the Mother Goose Award. He also won Prix du Livre de la Mer for Little Captain (Bodley Head, 1995).

He has collaborated with his wife, Jill Newsome, on several picture books, two of them for Andersen Press. The first of these was Dream Dancer, the second Night Walk. In his picture books he uses an intimate snapshot style, creating mood and a sense of action through a variety of angles, brushstrokes and colour tones.

Second Prize (Magazines)

Zygmunt Januszewski for Witness

(published in Guardian Review, 16 November 2002)

Zygmunt Januszewski was born in Poland and studied painting, drawing and graphic arts at Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. He is a graphic artist, illustrator and poster designer and exhibits his work worldwide. He has published two portfolios of prints, Panopticum (1989) and Helden (1991). Januszewski also lectures at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

He has received many awards internationally, including Printer of the Year Award in Edinburgh for the book Jeder ist ein Künstler (Kombinations-Kunst, Quensen Verlag). His satirical illustrations, which border on the surreal, are published in numerous leading international newspapers and journals, including the Guardian.

Januszewski's work is inhabited by fantastical characters portrayed with a witty but bizarre sense of humour. His work can translate into posters just as well as into illustration. He is one of the most important poster artists to come out of Poland.

Commended

Simon Bartram for Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob

(Dorking, Templar Publishing, 2002

Simon Bartram studied illustration at Birmingham Polytechnic. Since graduating in 1990, he has worked for a number of magazines but enjoys illustrating children's books and is currently creating his own. His distorted manner of drawing is also proving popular with modern advertising.

He was runner up in the 1999 Mother Goose Award for Pinocchio, adapted by Jane Fior. Since then he has worked closely with Templar Publishing. His fourth book for them will feature Bob's cousin, Dougal.

Ideas for illustrations come from his imagination. He develops characters and story lines from doodles or words: 'Bob from Man on the Moon was a doodle drawn during my sister's school play. I knew he was some kind of spaceman and that his heroic big chin was essential. Then it was just a case of finding things to keep him busy. Vacuuming seemed to be a good place to start!'

RED DOT (Frazer Hudson and Andrew Foster) for Cross Fertilisation

(Published in fmx, February 2002)

RED DOT are Frazer Hudson and Andrew Foster, a collaborative team of two illustrators already prominent as individuals in advertising, design and editorial work. They met whilst studying illustration at Central St. Martins in 1992 and saw themselves as kindred spirits. They helped form the illustration collective Monster, and remained under this banner for several years.

RED DOT were V&A Illustration Award winners last year for their editorial work. This year’s commended work was commissioned again by the same team of visionary art directors at ETP LTD, Patrick Myles and Sam Franks.

Hudson and Fosters’ collaboration as RED DOT began in 1997 when they shared a studio together. Whilst they continue to work also as individuals, RED DOT provides an opportunity to fuse their very individual styles and attitudes. Though they have very different styles, they both make bold and witty statements with their art, which is perfectly suited to editorial and advertising work.

Tony Ross for Don't Let Go!

(author Jeanne Willis, London, Andersen Press, 2002)

Tony Ross studied at the Liverpool School of Art. He has worked as a cartoonist, a graphic designer, as Art Director of an advertising agency, and as Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic. He is also one of the best known creators of original and traditional picture books. His work is known internationally.

Tony Ross has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards, including a commendation for the Kate Greenaway Award in 1991. He has won the Silver Paintbrush Award for the best illustrations by a foreign artist three times.

His style, combining humorous text with flamboyant use of line and colour, has a universal appeal. Many of his books have been animated for international television audiences. He has produced over fifty picture books for Andersen Press. His first, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, was voted one of the best books of 1976.

Tim Vyner for World Team

(London, Red Fox, 2002)

Tim Vyner studied graphic design at Camberwell School of Art and illustration at the Royal College of Art. He began his career as a freelance editorial illustrator, but also enjoys travelling and painting and creating children’s books. He exhibits his paintings internationally. Vyner combines this work with a lecturing post at Bath Spa University College, teaching illustration.

He published his first children’s book, The Stolen Egg, in 1992. World Team developed from paintings taken at the 2002 World Cup and combines his passion for football and travelling.

Vyner has always been an avid football fan. Of World Team, he says: 'It has given me the opportunity to indulge totally in a sport I love, and to revisit some of the places I love.' Vyner believes that football is an international language: 'I love the idea that as I put the lights out in my children's bedroom in a cold English winter that somebody somewhere is going to the beach to kick a ball around.'