Oliver Jeffers

From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Jeffers work takes many forms. His distinctive oil paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Illustration clients include, TED, NY Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, United Airlines, Lavazza Coffee, Newsweek International, Her Royal Majesty the Queen of England, and the Irish Times for which he received the Gold Icad Award for Illustration.

HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his picture books, including Stuck, The Hueys, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Great Paper Caper, and most recently This Moose Belongs to Me. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, Oliver’s second book Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film, which has received over sixty awards including , The New York Times Best Illustrated Books 2012, a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film. Picture Book awards include the Smarties Award, Irish Book of the Year, The Blue Peter Book of the Year, as well as shortlists for the British Book of the Year, The Roald Dahl Prize and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Oliver won a New York Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with Mac Premo.

Oliver was brought up in Northern Ireland and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

This image or object really caught my eye when looking at Oliver Jeffers work, reaching out from the normal lovely sketchy handwriting fonts and producing something very different but still with his own design twist on it. It really creates an interesting product and could be seen as a main piece captivating his work.

I chose this image because the media in which it was made upon is a flat wooden board, giving it a very rustic feel and creating a different sort of image from that on a canvas or white paper. It also included nice visuals that related to my project with the link between time and clocks/watches. 

This image was a really interesting find, not only does it use stunning background visuals and hand rendered stars but the type really caught my attention as not only a lovely choice of font but also good use of the tags for background and sketchy wisps for the dividers. Creating a very clever visual that makes sense not only as a poster but for branding and the book cover it was designed for.