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WHO WE ARE

Bright is a global agency that nurtures and represents passionate, gifted creatives. You’ll see their work everywhere: from children’s books, events, and film to advertising, newspapers, and homeware. They’re here to make a mark on the world, and our mission is to make it happen.

We’re united and driven by a love of great creative work. So, we’re here to turn raw talent into stellar careers, and client briefs into creative success.

Our team, work across both our UK and US offices. We have the experience to understand the realities and challenges facing editorial commissioners. From delivering conceptual creative work that drives consumer loyalty, to intense schedules that ensure publication. We support your process from brief to delivery.

Bright are experts at matching artists with a huge spectrum of clients, from exciting start-ups to established global brands.

James Burns

james@thebrightagency.com

+1 6465 779 704

James specializes as an agent in commercial illustration based in the US Bright office. With proven success in his management skills with external and internal stakeholders, James provides fuss-free creative solutions across all genres of children’s literature. He has built a reputation in publishing by understanding the needs of his commercial and fictional audience - not to mention his warm and approachable personality.

James is based in the agency’s US office.

AGENT HEAD OF US

ED PALMER edward@thebrightagency.com

Ed Palmer

edward@thebrightagency.com

+1 5512 296 919

Having joined Bright in his native London back in 2020, Ed now works alongside James Burns in Bright’s U.S office. He brings energy and motivation to every interaction he has and, in turn, loves seeing brief come to life. He particularly enjoys building long-lasting relationships with both artists and clients alike.

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Ed is based in the agency’s US office.

Guillermo Flores

Guillermo Flores is an award winning Mexican designer and illustrator based in Guadalajara specialized in collage, illustration and digital art. He has been exhibited as part of LOS DIEZ by Latin American Illustration No7. His work has been included in the LAI7 LOS DIEZ exhibition at Photoville

2019 - Exhibition Winners Collection sponsored by Epson in Dumbo, NY. Selected for two consecutive years as part of American Illustration’s LAI7 & LAI8. Winner LA 2018 / 2019. Selected in the Second Biennial of Illustration

2020 by Pictoline. Notable clients include: Apple. Sephora, Nike, CITI Private Bank, Mark Jacobs, Adobe and Burning Man.

Ronan Lynam

Based in Washington DC, Ronan Lynam works as an illustrator contributing to advertising, editorial & retail projects.

Ronan’s work centers around his vivid and colorful style of illustration, capturing the tightness of crisp, graphic work while still retaining a handdrawn feel with a splash of traditional media textures. Projects often focus around decorative illustrations for branding, conceptual editorial work, and various motion illustration projects.

Adrien Gaudin

Adrien Gaudin is an illustrator and a motion designer from Angoulême in France. After a degree in graphic design and 2D animation, he started his career 4 years ago as a freelancer. During this time, he collaborated with various creative agencies, magazines and clients in France and Quebec. Supporting the visibility of eco-responsible projects is a goal in Adrien’s work. He loves using natural themes and drawing vegetation. He likes to use small color palettes and simple shapes in order to have a clear and accessible work. Adrien likes to play with the anatomy of his characters. Drawing big hands, making tiny heads allows him to add dynamism and fun to his creations. various motion illustration projects.

Virginia Moura

Virginia Moura is an illustrator and designer from Rio, based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been involved in art from an early age, and she always enjoyed drawing characters. She learned and taught classical drawing and painting at the same art school and ended up discovering Graphic Design. After graduating, she spent over 10 years in the design industry and worked for many brands such as Google, Chase, Revlon, Samsung, and American Express at agencies such as Huge and others.

VIRGINIA MOURA

Pola Augustynowicz

Pola Augustynowicz is an illustrator and graphic designer, currently living and working in Poznan, Poland. She studied Art Education at the University of the Arts Poznan and Journalism at the University of Adam Mickiewicz and has produced work for magazines, books, textiles, packaging and branding.

Notable clients include; Bombay Sapphire, Somersby and Costa Coffee.

Aaron Marin

Aaron is an American illustrator and artist living in Upstate New York.

He draws people and places in bold and reimagined color palettes. He aims to capture the defining essence of an environment or person with a fresh perspective and childlike imagination, often challenging assumptions of beauty, power, and intelligence relating to the Black experience in America.

Adele Leyris

Adele is a Franco-English illustrator based in London.

She primarily works in watercolours, but also uses other medias including digital drawing, pastels and embroidery. Her work focuses on botanical and organic forms, bold modern colour palettes and portraiture. She also enjoys introducing animation into her projects. Inspired by nature, Adele spends her time observing and studying shapes discovered on her travels.

Ali Kamara

Ali Kamara is a London-based illustrator and motion graphic artist, who creates vibrant and psychedelic visuals with a focus on music, modern culture, and social commentary. Having been influenced by design, hip hop culture, classic Hollywood cinematography and abstract anime from a young age, he always aims to capture cultural events and icons through the influence of these works.

Anna Kuptsova

Anna Kuptsova is an illustrator and creative designer based in Europe.

She dedicated last 12 years of her career to illustration, design and art direction. During this time, she collaborated with various international agencies, magazines and individual clients. Anna’s main interest lies in developing and creating unique and eye-catching digital illustrations. As an artist she is known for her vivid, romantic, and thought-provoking art style.

Barbara Alca

Bàrbara Alca is an enthusiastic Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Art Director based in Barcelona.

She’s started drawing when she was a child and hasn’t stopped soo far. As a vulnerable child without a normative childhood, she found refuge on her drawings and her journals, in which she drew and wrote about her favourite fiction characters.

Bea Muller

Bea is a freelance illustrator and Mama Bear based in London.

If you see a bright pink colour against a dark green background combined with some florals and a pinch of quirkiness, the chances are high you landed on her work. Bea’s illustration career started off drawing her daughter Soley and herself as a Bear (Bea), this is when the moniker and brand name Soley and the Bear was born.

ED PALMER edward@thebrightagency.com

Caitlin Keegan

Caitlin Keegan is a New York-based illustrator and surface designer, and the creator of The Illuminated Tarot and Illuminated Art Series, published by Clarkson Potter.

Her clients include Abrams, Chronicle Books, Galison, Penguin Random House, Refinery29, and The Washington Post. Caitlin graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been a guest illustration critic and lecturer at Maryland Institute College of Art, University of the Arts, the School of Visual Arts, and RISD.

Daniel Rieley

Daniel is a freelance illustrator based in London.

His work is influenced by his travels and ‘everyday adventures’; he finds hiking in remote landscapes, French cinema, the ocean, animals (the wild kind), interesting people and surfing particularly rich sources of inspiration.

Daniel works in a range of media, including pencils, watercolour, inks and digital.

Dragan Kordić

Dragan is a Croatian based illustrator. After he got his master’s degree in Applied Graphics he worked as a graphic designer, mostly in culture and educational domain, as a poster artist and illustrator. After several big illustration projects, he decided to completely switch to the illustration which now he does full time.

Besides being an art enthusiast, he finds inspiration in exploring nature, traveling and reading books – everything from classics to illustrated adventures for young adults and children.

DRAGAN KORDIĆ

El Primo Ramón

Born in a rainy city on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, El Primo Ramon spent several years studying at a College of Architecture and, later, completed a Phd in Graphical Expression; most importantly, though, he never stopped sketching doodles in the margins. After over five years working as an architect and graphic designer for a variety of magazines and companies, he began publishing cartoons, illustrations and articles. The next step, and perhaps the most rewarding, was to publish an illustrated book for children.

EL PRIMO RAMÓN

ED PALMER edward@thebrightagency.com

Eva Naroditskaya

Eva is an illustrator from Russia, she lives in Moscow.

She started her illustration career as a pattern designer and while working in a fashion filed Eva started developing her personal voice in illustration.

Throughout her career she has been making illustrations for magazines, working on animations for IT companies and schools, fashion, cosmetic brands and kids toy designs.

Jane Newland

Jane Newland is an illustrator from Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom.

Since graduating from Maidstone College of Art with a degree in illustration, her extensive freelance experience has covered a broad range of clients. Jane’s clients include Anthropologie, Times Square Hong Kong, Vogue, The Art Group and Templar Publishing. Jane employs both traditional and digital techniques in her work and admits to having a bit of an obsession with detail!

Jessica Smith

Jess is a recent graduate from Falmouth University and is currently living in a small town near Oxford.

Her work consists of simple shapes and bright colours, she makes these work by layering these shapes and playing with opacity and shadows. She enjoys working conceptually and so scale and perspective play a large role within the images that she makes. Her work comes across fairly decorative at first but she tries to include other hidden things within it. Jess’ clients include Simon & Schuster, Scholastic and Oxford University Press.

JESSICA SMITH

Jorge Garcia

Jorge is a designer and illustrator from Spain who is currently based in London. He started drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil, and hasn’t stopped since!

Inspired by a weird mix of elements, such as 90s cartoons, comics, midcentury design and street photography, he works both traditionally and digitally for both publishing and a wide range of commercial projects.

His work is character-based, colourful, whimsical, and always tells a story.

Kitty O’Rourke

Kitty O’Rourke is a British graphic designer and illustrator based in the North West of England.

Throughout her design career she has always been passionate about illustration, developing a style that is distinctly vibrant, colourful and playful - often with an element of humour. Kitty loves to illustrate diverse characters wearing eye catching outfits, quirky accessories, and a whole lot of personality!

Matthew Taylor Wilson

Born and raised in the United States, Matthew is an illustrator and designer currently living in Kentucky with his brilliant wife, two kids and two neurotic dogs. With picture books, monster movies, and sci-fi novels as a foundation for his creative development, Matthew found himself on a journey from graphic design to a more playful, illustration-centered career. He has spent the better part of two decades drawing monsters and robots, doodling band names, illustrating and hand-lettering quirky book covers, ads, logos, & a myriad of other commercial products.

Mia Mottelson

Mia Mottelson breaks any law in the visual arts. Dynamics and rhythm drive the content, not the laws of perspective or ratios of the human body. The whole image is filled with biomorphic figures, shaped by their actions. She cuts through to clarity and leaves only those body parts in the image that are relevant. Nothing is given. Everything is energy. Simultaneously both raw and fluid in an infinite motion, as if the drawing emerges in front of us. Mottelson combines digital drawing with water color to add a tactile presence to her aesthetic and critical goal. It has to make a difference, because it’s needed. Now.

Minverva GM

Minerva Gonzalez is an illustrator based in the Mexican Caribe, where she has developed a strong connection to nature.

She experiments with rounded shapes, vibrant colours, textures, and cultural influences. Minerva has produced illustrations for books and magazines, as well as product packaging, textile designs, and murals for global clients including Adidas Originals, American greetings, Disney, Hallmark, Stella Artois, Natura and UN Women.

Nancy Butterworth

Nancy Butterworth is an Illustrator, Designer, Animator and all round creative nerd, living and working in London. She can see the bigger picture in any simple brief or concept and create designs that stand out from the crowd. She always aims to provide an elevated, imaginative and fresh way of thinking through pictures rather than words. Nancy loves the joy of storytelling and enjoys creating an impact with bold, witty, memorable and unique visuals that bring brands to life. Nancy was initially ‘drawn’ (sorry, excuse the pun) to illustration whilst she was working as a graphic designer in Australia and was given the opportunity to illustrate for a client.

Sam Prentice

Sam Prentice is an author-illustrator working in Brighton UK who graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 2019 with a BA Hons in Illustration, specialising in digital, graphic, character-based work. Sam likes to create work that celebrates diversity and queer culture and began his career by curating a queer illustration magazine titled POOF Magazine which ran 2019-2021. Since then Sam has gone on to create work for the worlds of book publishing, web design, advertising and product design as well as being featured in art fairs across the UK and being named one of the most influential queer illustrators working in the UK by We Built This City, London.

Sarah Long

Sarah graduated with her illustration degree from Cambridge School of Art in 2004 and headed off into the sunset. Not really. She needed to get a paid job.

She started off her career at Caroline Gardner before moving into giftware, where she designed bags, ceramics and textiles from initial concept to final product. This also involved working with licensors designing products for The Beatles and Moomin.

Simiao Wang

Simiao is an illustrator based in New York. She was raised and born in a Chinese seaside city. She earned her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and her MFA at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Simiao creates murals for organizations such as Spotify and LinkedIn; public space art for LinkNYC and the City of Vancouver; and illustrations for fashion companies such as SHEIN.

Sofia Salazar

Sofia is an illustrator and tropical creature.

Originally from Venezuela, she’s been living all over Latin America to get inspiration from latino culture. Her style is defined by a combination of her colorful and vibrant cultural heritage, and her background in Graphic Design. Clients include Spotify, Fast Company, Renault and KFC.

Steffi Walthall

Steffi Walthall is a US-based illustrator and character designer born and raised in Virginia. She was the artist of the family at a young age and could always be found with pencil and paper in hand. Steffi took this passion for art halfway down the east coast to Georgia, where she received her BFA in Game Development from the Savannah College of Art & Design. During her time in school, she developed a line-focused, graphic style. Working primarily in Photoshop, she focuses on crafting a diverse range of characters and unique stories.

Tania Garcia

Tania García is an illustrator and designer from Barcelona. She studied Arts and Design at Escola Massana, Barcelona University, a school with more than 80 years’ experience in the visual arts and design. After working for a few years in interior design, she realised that what she was most passionate about was drawing, so she became a self-taught illustrator.