March 8, 2014
I am an Illustrator and Designer from the South West of England.
My work is influenced by my time spent as a Graphic Designer working on a broad range of projects, specialising in pre-school gift and activity led stationery.
You can view my previous design and illustration work in the sidebar pages, this included Zany Zoo for WHSmith, Little Bugs for Sainsburys and RetroMetric for Paperchase. I now work with a broad variety of major book publishers from all around the world. Visit my online shop to view my products including mugs, greeting cards, apparel and gifts.
Click here to contact me regarding any illustration or design project requirements you may have.
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October 17, 2015
I’ve created some clipart vector files which are available on shutterstock. I thought about the kinds of design elements I use and need and have made them available for sale here! They are all created as vectors which makes them easy to edit. Textures, patterns, icons, flowers, trees, Halloween images, borders and frames available from VectorHills portfolio on shutterstock, here is a preview of some of the artwork available to download:
Tags: clipart, design elements, grunge borders, ink spots, laila hills clipart, paint splats, painted borders, parchment banners, vectorhills, VectorHills clipart, vectors
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October 17, 2015
I received some lovely book samples from Rainstorm Publishing earlier in the week. The Doodle, Draw & Sticker books are a brand new product concept with 3 activities all in a large (A3 size) format, there are lots of activities all in a book you can carry around. Available in Costco Stores, U.S.A or shop on Rainstorm’s site by clicking here.
Fantastic concept and design work by LittleRedAnt on these books, so a big thank you to LittleRedAnt.
Lift the Flap Love to Learn Alphabet and Colors, board books:
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September 23, 2015
Here are a mix of #colour_collective illustrations which I worked on over the last few months. Colour Collective is a Twitter challenge to create artwork based around a given colour each week. These were for – Blue Grey, Burnt Umber, Orange Lake Light, Pale Pink and Indigo:
Tags: colour, colour collective, dragonfly, goldfish, owl, pig, sharks
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September 23, 2015
Here is a little taster of some work I have at Gallery 44AD in Bath at the moment.
Tags: bath exhibition, children's artwork, childrens illustration, Gallery 44AD, kidlitart, south west illustrators
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September 10, 2015
I will be exhibiting with South West Illustrators in Bath very soon. Illustration Wonderland Tuesday 22nd – Sunday 27th September 2015, Gallery 44AD, 4 Abbey Street, Bath, BA1 1NN. Lots of new artwork, a quiz for the kids, a lovely setting near Bath Abbey, what more could you ask for?! I’ll be at the exhibition all day Saturday, 10am – 6pm
Tags: alice in wonderland, children's artwork, childrens illustrators, exhibition, Gallery 44AD, kidlitart, south west illustrators, SWill
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April 19, 2015
I worked with Happy Owl Apps on an Ipad app, its now available in the iTunes app store
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April 19, 2015
My new jungle animal card design for Showcase Greetings
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January 23, 2015
Check out my new Facebook page by clicking on the links on the sidebar on the right of the screen.
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January 8, 2015
18 fun, bright card designs with Showcase Greetings Ltd. Here is a link to an article in Progressive Greetings all about the mix of publishers and designers: http://www.greetingstoday.co.uk/news/recent_news/set_to_show_off.aspx?dm_i=EHD,33KT7,HXHBAS,B477C,1
Tags: card designs, childrens cards, color in cards, colour in cards, fun childrens cards, Half-Bee, half-bee cards, juvenile cards, new baby cards, retirement card, showcase greetings, thank you card, tween cards
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December 11, 2014
If you’re tempted to print this out, colour it in and hang it up, go ahead! I’ve made a start for you, Happy Christmas!
Tags: Christmas, christmas color in, christmas colouring in, christmas costume, christmas decoration, christmas tree
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December 3, 2014
Half-Pea cards are on their way, these can be seen on Showcase Greetings Ltd. Website http://www.showcasegreetings.co.uk. I have designed a range which includes birthday, anniversary, retirement, thank you, new baby and children’s cards which have fun colour-in characters on the inside. These cards will be offered to retailers across the UK and beyond.
Tags: birthday cake, cake card, childrens cards, greeting cards, half pea, Half-Bee, humour cards, laila hills, showcase greetings
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November 10, 2014
New, fun, Christmas placemats now available from happyspaces.co.uk. Personalise them with everyone’s names and enjoy colouring in as you wait for your Christmas meal.
Also available from Not On the High Street.com
Tags: Christmas, christmas color in, christmas colouring in, christmas dinnerware, christmas meal, christmas party, christmas placemats, christmas puddings, colouring in christmas
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September 15, 2014
Half-Bee is my new brand, which will feature product launching in the New Year. For now there is a Website and Half-Bee is also on Twitter
So for now, I’m afraid you only get half the information about Half-Bee…
Tags: bee, design, Half-Bee
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August 18, 2014
Tags: big box entertainment books, childrens books, dinosaur shapes, dinosaurs, early learning rhymes, educational books, farmyard, jungle, jungle abc, laila hills books, monster colors, monsters, peekaboo animals, peekaboo books, peekaboo colors, peekaboo numbers, peekaboo words
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July 14, 2014
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July 13, 2014
You can now follow me on Twitter, I’ll be tweeting work and news from here, so just click the follow button above and when you get to a screen that looks like this, you’re in the right place!
Tags: illustration twitter, laila hills, laila twitter
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July 9, 2014
Details from new artwork with fun young characters, using watercolour textures and clean vectors.
Tags: Astronaut, childrens illustration, fun child characters, mermaid, space designs, under the sea designs
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July 9, 2014
A new, more graphic, reduced colour palette I’ve been playing around with.
Tags: elephant, elephant and mouse, graphic styled elephant, Mouse, patterned elephant
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July 9, 2014
Tags: activity books, ballet stickers, diving stickers, dress up, dress up fun book, fancy dress, fancy dress stickers, farmer, fun job book, girl superhero, job stickers, stick and play, wig stickers
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June 6, 2014
I’ve been working hard on a Jungle Alphabet app for Happy Owl Apps
It features 26 jungle animals or plants to represent each letter, I had an opportunity to work on the layout, branding as well as the illustrations. There are unusual jungle animals featured along with information about each one, plus colouring and letter tracing, more information to follow when it launches, for now, here is a taster of how it looks:
Tags: alphabet, alphabet app, childrens app, educational apps, happy owl apps, jungle, let's go
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June 4, 2014
This is the first of 4 new books for big box entertainment, this one teaches colors/colours and patterns using fun rhymes and monsters.
Tags: childrens books, colourful monster, cute monsters, monster book, monster colors, teaching colors
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December 2, 2013
This was another big project, to go alongside the Map of the World and Our Solar System I have designed a fun Map of the British Isles which is being sold as a printed canvas by Happy Spaces online Gallery:
Tags: childrens british isles map, childrens map, laila hills map, Map of the British Isles, uk map, uk map for children
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December 2, 2013
Tags: bee, child in a sty, child sleeping, childrens board books, does a pig sleep in a bowl, does a train fly through the sky, dog in train, goldfish, goldfish bowl, laila hills books, mix and match books, pig in bowl, pig sty, stable
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Laila Hills Illustration and Design 