Antony Hare

Illustration of the Dominion Public Building, London, Ontario. #illustrator

Why it Matters to Me if Designers Read and Write Note: this essay may also be found on Design Observer. I read the following statement during a five-minute spotlight slot at this year’s…

💙❤️ the #kidlit agents and illustrators in my replies saying they too care about the principles of book design.

This makes them better at their crafts.

Related: I once wrote a little something about why it matters to me if designers read and write.
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Premiere issue of my annual email newsletter: mailchi.mp/2286106487fa...

Winter is coming #kidlit #kidlitart

Throwing my hat in the ring 🎩 ahpi.ca

Illustration for Sandra Goldmark’s book about good design, reuse, and repair: Fixation (2020) 📕✍🏻

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Illustrated portrait of Jan Tschichold. Calligrapher, typographer, and book designer.

Lincoln 1976

Importing from the other site, but it applies here as well. As soon as I started following these rules, sometime before I articulated them in late ‘21, my experience online improved immensely.

Loretta and Francis in my #kidlit book, “Skate Freight” ⛸️📦

Collage promo for Debbie Ridpath Ohi's Substack publication, including an illustration of Debbie in glasses clutching a book in one hand and a handful of art materials in the other. Headers include Picture Books 101, children's book illustrator directory, a Judy Blume screenshot.

For those interested in the writing and illustrating picture books, I've been posting a free series called Picture Books 101 over on my Substack: debbieohi.substack.com

As I gradually cull the number of social media platforms I'm most active on, I'm starting to settle on Bluesky and Substack.

Never On Trend

Portrait of Jeremy Allen White 🤍

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Something for my new showreel. Happy to be here! 🖤🩶🤍