V&A Illustration Awards Past winners, 1972 – 2019

Year Award Illustrator Title of work Publisher/Place of study V&A Illustration Awards (1995 – present) 2019 Book Illustration and Moira Nora Krug Heimat Particular Books Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Book Cover Design Yehrin Tong Their Eyes Are Watching God Virago 50th Anniversary Series (Design by Hannah Wood) Illustrated Journalism Richard Allen Experts The Sunday Telegraph Student Illustrator of the Year Sophie Burrows Crushing Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art Student Runner-Up Yanyin Xu One By One Camberwell College of Arts 2018 Book Illustration and Moira John Vernon Lord Ulysses The Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Book Cover Design Suzanne Dean Bluets Jonathan Cape Editorial Illustration Cat O’Neil RSA Benefits Libération Student Illustrator of the Year Joseph Namara Hollis The Big City Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art Student Runner-Up Fay Troote The Diving Pool Arts University Bournemouth 2017 Editorial Illustration and Moira Richard Allen Trump Wave The Sunday Telegraph Money Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Book Cover Design Aino-Maija Metsola Mrs Dalloway Vintage Classics Woolf Series Book Illustration JARVIS Alan’s Big Scary Teeth Walker Books Student Illustrator of the Year Beatriz Lostalé Seijo The Odyssey Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art Student Runner-Up Tom Spooner Towards an Infinite Place Royal College of Art 2016 Book Cover Design and Moira David McConochie The Folio Book of Ghost Stories The Folio Society Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Book Illustration Jason Brooks London Sketchbook Laurence King Editorial Illustration Bill Bragg But Today I am Afraid Guardian Comment Student Illustrator of the Year Kate Milner My Name is Not Refugee Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art Student Runner-Up Joan Alturo Morts et Vita Arts University Bournemouth 2015 Book Illustration and Overall Sterling Hundley Treasure Island The Folio Society Winner Book Cover Design Yehrin Tong The Book of Strange New Things Canongate Books Editorial Illustration Simon Pemberton The Blackest Isles Weekend Student Illustrator of the Year Daphne Christoforou No Thing Royal College of Art Student Runner-Up Dan Ungureanu Nara and the Island Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art 2014 Editorial Illustration and Overall Helen Musselwhite Ten Myths of Creativity Dance Gazette, Royal Academy of Winner Dance Book Cover Illustration Anne-Marie Jones Sons and Lovers The Folio Society Book Illustration Yasmeen Ismail Time for Bed, Fred! Bloomsbury Children’s Books Student Illustrator of the Year Grace Russell The Wild Places University of Westminster Student Runner-Up Vivian Chan London Fashion Scout AW13 Kingston University 2013 Editorial Illustration and Overall George Butler Syria: The Point of No Return Guardian G2 Winner Book Cover Illustration Pietari Posti Swallows and Amazons Vintage Book Illustration Anna and Elena Balbusso Eugene Onegin The Folio Society Student Illustrator of the Year Grace Helmer The Fugitive Camberwell College of Arts Student Runner-Up Minho Kwon The Neo Arts and Crafts Movement Royal College of Art 2012 Book Illustration and Overall Laëtitia Devernay The Conductor Chronicle Books Winner Book Cover Illustration Matthew Richardson The Outsider The Folio Society Editorial Illustration Nick Lowndes Mastering Growth Financial Times Student Illustrator of the Year Holly Mills Hothouse Camberwell College of Arts Student Runner-Up Daniel Clarke Heygate Memories Camberwell College of Arts 2010 Book Illustration and Overall Sarah Carr How to Drink Granta Books Winner Book Cover Illustration Marion Deuchars Burmese Days Penguin Books Editorial Illustration Matthew Richardson Phantom Space Storms New Scientist Student Illustrator of the Year Hanshen Gu How Does Transport Destroy my Life? Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Student Runner-Up Frank Laws Ongoing Project Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 2009 Book Illustration and Overall Tom Burns New York Trilogy The Folio Society Winner Book Cover Illustration Swava Harasymowicz Eugene Onegin Penguin Books Editorial Illustration Swava Harasymowicz Putting Daisy Down Weekend Student Illustrator of the Year Lydia Wong Everything Turns to Gold Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Student Runner-Up Kristina Marie Hofmann Illustrations inspired by ICE by Anna Royal College of Art Kaven 2007 Editorial Illustration and Overall Brett Ryder Looking for the Next Fix Daily Telegraph Magazine Winner Editorial Illustration Runner-Up Paul Blow Well Swung Book Illustration Lionel Le Neouanic Little Smudge Boxer Books Ltd Book Illustration Runner-Up Andrzej Klimowski Horace Dorlan Faber and Faber Book Cover Illustration Paul Bower Barcelona Plates Hodder & Stoughton (Sceptre) Book Cover Illustration Runner-Up Paul Hornschemeier Hospital Hamish Hamilton Student Illustrator of the Year Leah Fusco The Long Man University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone Student Commended Laura Clark The Happy Prince College of Art Assim Heetun What Would Make the World a Better University of Hertfordshire Place? Adam Newton The Hangover Kingston University Hannah Rollings Utterly Mindless Thrills: a peep show Kingston University into the romance novel 2006 Book Illustration and Overall Tong Angell In the Company of Crows and Ravens Yale University Press Winner Book Illustration Runner-Up Audrey Niffenegger The Three Incestuous Sisters Jonathan Cape Book Cover Illustration Tim Moore and Xiao Mammels Canongate Books Ltd Book Cover Illustration Aaron Robinson Sons and Lovers Penguin Editorial Illustration Laura Carlin Inside a Rape Trial Barbara Toner Editorial Illustration Runner-Up Olivier Kugler Kugler’s People The Guardian Student Illustrator of the Year Chu-Li Chen Human Imperfections London College of Communication Student Commended Alexis Goodwin The Visitor University for the Creative Arts Deborah Hill Origami University for the Creative Arts 2005 Book Illustration and Overall Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredible Close Hamish Hamilton Winner Book Illustration Runner-Up Jonny Hannah Hot Jazz Special Walker Books Ltd Book Cover Illustration Bill Sanderson (Illustrator) The Flood Canongate Books and Steve Snider (Designer) Book Cover Illustration Runner-Up Katherine Meynell It’s Inside: The Story of a Cancer Marion Boyars (Illustrator) and Eleanor Rose (Designer) Editorial Illustration Przemek Sobocki Touch 125 Magazine Editorial Illustration Runner-Up Peter Till Cover Illustration for Guardian Review The Guardian Student Illustrator of the Year Julianna Kasza Piglet Kent Institute of Art and Design Student Commended Swava Harasymowicz A Woman’s Day Royal College of Art Meng-Chia Lai OH! Anglia Polytechnic University Salvatore Rubbino A Walk in New York Royal College of Art 2004 Book Cover Illustration and Overall Sara Fanelli Pinocchio Walker Books Winner Book Cover Illustration Runner-Up Chris Ware and Gary McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue Hamish Hamilton Panter 13 Editorial Illustration Daniel Pudles The Moral Myths The Guardian Editorial Illustration Runner-Up Gary Taxali Order of Merit Telegraph Magazine 2003 Overall Winner Nick Maland You’ve Got Dragons Hodder Children’s Books Second Prize (Books) Claudio Munoz Night Walk Anderson Press Second Prize (Magazines) Zygmunt Januszewski Witness The Guardian Review 2002 Overall Winner Dave McKean Pictures that Tick Pacific Grove Second Prize (Books) Angela J Hogg Losing It John Murray Second Prize (Magazines) Frazer Hudson and Red Dot FMX Andrew Foster Commended Ian Pollock Just Like Frank Two Rivers Press Kim Donaldson Africa: An Artist’s Journal Pavilion Books Limited Wayne Anderson The Tin Forest Templar Publishing Ltd Laura Hambleton I’m Afraid Too! Milet Publishing 2001 Overall Winner Wayne Anderson Gnomes and Gardens: A Field Guide to Pavilion the Little People Second Prize (Books) Helen Ward The Wind in the Willows Templer Publishing Second Prize (Magazines) Daniel Pudles These are the Children that we Crush The Guardian Commended Izhar Cohen The Flood Tales Pavilion Geoff Grandfield The Novels of Raymond Chandler The Folio Society Paul Slater Jonathan Meades at the Millennium Times Magazine Dome Little.com Andersen Press 2000 Overall Winner Patrick Benson The Sea-Thing Child Walker Books Second Prize (Books) Tony Ross The Boy Who Lost His Bellybutton Andersen Press Second Prize (Magazines) Robin Heighway-Bury Tripping the Light Fantastic TES Online Commended Sara Fanelli It’s Dreamtime Heinemann Young Books Laura Stoddart Up the Garden Path Orion Chris Riddell Castle Diary Walker Books Chris Wormell Blue Rabbit and Friends Red Fox 1999 Overall Winner Satoshi Kitamura The Ring of Words Faber & Faber Second Prize (Books) Helen Ward The Hare and the Tortoise Templar Publishing Second Prize (Magazines) Frazer Hudson Green, Safer and More Economical QED Commended Phillipe Dupasquier A Sunday with Grandpa Andersen Press Andrew Foster Dooms Day FX Matilda Harrison Bisky Bats and Pussy Pats Bloomsbury Children’s Books Tony Ross Why? Andersen Press 1998 Overall Winner Posy Simmonds Cautionary Tales and Other Verses The Folio Society Second Prize (Books) Lucy Weller The Scarlet Pimpernel The Folio Society Second Prize (Magazines) Frazer Hudson What are the Chances of…’ Independent Magazine Commended Sara Fanelli Wolf! Mammoth Clare Mackie Michael Rosen’s Book of Nonsense MacDonald Young Books Chris Riddell The Swan’s Stories Walker Books Tony Ross Sloth’s Shoes Andersen Press 1997 Overall Winner Geoff Grandfield The Complete Entertainments The Folio Society Second Prize (Books) Rotraut Susanne Berner The It-Doesn’t Matter Suit Faber & Faber Second Prize (Magazines) Fiona MacVicar Picture This Ariel Commended Sara Fanelli Pinocchio Picture Box ABC Gerald Fitzgerald In My Pocket ABC David Parkins Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble Walker Books Paul Schofield A Check-Up on Healthcare Human Resources 1996 Overall Winner Bruce Ingman When Martha’s Away Methuen Children’s Books Second Prize (Books) Quentin Blake Clown Jonathan Cape Second Prize (Magazines) Daniel Pudles Out for the Count The Guardian Commended Alison Bartlett Oliver’s Vegetables Hodder Children’s Books Lucy Cousins Za-Za’s Baby Brother Walker Books Andrzej Krauze Society Hungry for Change The Guardian Max Velthuijs Frog is a Hero Andersen Press 1995 Overall Winner Sara Fanelli Button ABC Second Prize (Books) Louise Brierley Celebration Song Hamish Hamilton Second Prize (Magazines) Angela J. Hogg First Fold your Protein New Scientist Commended Geoff Grandfield Maori Mafia Verses Pakeha Redneck The Guardian Andrzej Klimowski The Depository Faber & Faber Dave McKean Mr Punch Victor Gallancz David Parkins Prowlpuss Walker Books W H Smith Illustration Awards (1987 – 1994) 1994 Join Overall Winners Tomek Bogacki Crackling Brat Methuen Children’s Books Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Walker Books Present Second Prize (Books) Not awarded Second Prize (Magazines) Moira Millman Horoscope Special Marie Claire Distinguished Mentions Lisa Flather Where the Great Bear Watches ABC David Hughes Bully Walker Books Graham Rawle Graham Rawle’s Wonder Book of Fun Victor Gollancz Sue Shields Qui Sait? BBC Educational Publishing 1993 Overall Winner Tony Meeuwissen Key to the Kingdom Pavilion Second Prize (Books) Louise Brierley Songs from Shakespeare Walker Books Second Prize (Magazines) Sarah Ball Christmas Books Saturday Review Distinguished Mentions John Paul Early Twists and Turns on Quality Street Director Andrew Kulman Red Light, Green Light ABC Paul Slater Signs of Pisces in the Ascendant The Times Saturday Review Max Velthuijs Frog in Winter Andersen Press 1992 Overall Winner Charlotte Knox Fruit Mitchell Beazley Second Prize (Books) Angela Barrett Snow White Hutchinson Second Prize (Magazines) Dolores Fairman The Cure is Green Observer Magazine Distinguished Mentions Stanislav Bouvier The Enemy Within The Sunday Times Magazine Piers Browne William Wordsworth John Murray Beryl Cook Bouncers Victor Gollancz 1991 Overall Winner Angela Barrett The Hidden House Walker Books Second Prize (Books) Christopher Wormell An Alphabet of Animals Collins Second Prize (Magazines) Christopher Brown Cut d’Azur The Sunday Times Magazine Distinguished Mentions Jamel Akib When Theft is Worse than Murder Director Ian Beck Hush-a-bye Baby Transworld Quentin Blake Alphabeasts Victor Gollancz Glynn Boyd Harte Mr Harte’s Holiday Sinclair-Stevenson 1990 Overall Winner John Vernon Lord Aesop’s Fables Cape Second Prize (Books) Michael Foreman War Boy Pavilion/ Michael Joseph Second Prize (Magazines) Jamel Akib Crisis in Flood Marketing Distinguished Mentions Anthony Browne The Tunnel Julia MacRae Books Tim Jonke The Tale of Three Trees Lion Publishing Andrew Kulman Greening of Industry New Scientist Claudio Muňoz Us and Them Observer Magazine 1989 Overall Winner Jeff Fisher A Better Beast of Burden New Scientist Second Prize (Books) Charlotte Voake The Mighty Slide Viking Kestral Second Prize (Magazines) Richard Parent Breakdown: Out of Sight, Out of Mind Director Distinguished Mentions Peter Brookes Christmas Books Spectator Per Dahlberg Frankenstein Longman Colin McNaughton Jolly Roger Walker books 1988 Joint Overall Winners Charles Keeping Classic Tales of the Macabre Blackie Richard Parent The Chernobyl Effect New Scientist Distinguished Mentions Patrick Benson The Baron All at Sea Walker Books Liz Pyle The Return of the Locust New Scientist Posy Simmonds Fred Cape Juan Wijngaard The Blemyah Stories Walker Books 1987 Overall Winner Ralph Steadman I, Leonardo Cape Second Prize (Books) Justin Todd Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Victor Gollancz Second Prize (Magazines) Not awarded Distinguished Mentions Louise Brierley The Twelve Days of Christmas Walker Books Andrew Davidson The Iron Man Faber & Faber Michael Foreman A Child’s Garden of Verses Faber & Faber Oscar Grillo The Private Diary of Rembrandt Pavilion Harmenszoon van Rijn Francis Williams Award for Illustration (1972 – 1982) 1982 Best Illustrated Books Raymond Briggs The Snowman Hamish Hamilton Paul Hogarth Poems by Robert Graves New York Limited Editions Club Sara Midda In and Out of the Garden Sidgwick & Jackson Simon Brett The Animals of St Gregory Paulinus Press Glynn Boyd Temples of Power Cygnet Press Justin Todd Moonshadow Victor Gollancz 1977 Best Illustrated Books Michael Foreman Monkey and the Three Wizards Collins Charles Keeping The Wildman Andre Deutsch John Lawrence Rabbit & Pork Rhyming Talk Hamish Hamilton Edward Bawden Rasselas The Folio Society Celia Berridge Runaway Danny Andre Deutsch Raymond Briggs Father Christmas Hamish Hamilton 1972 Best Illustrated Books Michael Foreman Horatio Hamish Hamilton Ralph Steadman Alice in Wonderland Dobson Anthony Earnshaw Museum Cape Susanna Gretz The Bears Who Stayed Indoors Benn Charles Keeping Tinker Taylor Brockhampton Press John Lawrence Colonel Jack The Folio Society Peter Reddick The Return of the Native The Folio Society