A graduate in illustration from the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Julie Guillem is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. She now works regularly for the press and publishing houses. Using a range of techniques including linocut, ink and watercolour, she enjoys playing with colour, graphic simplicity and poetry. From hot-air balloon rides to majestic bird flights, her illustrations are an invitation to travel and contemplate.

A graduate of ECV Paris, Cosmo Danchin-Hamard is a young illustrator who lives and works in Le Havre. Her graphic universe, both pop and retro, oscillates between the ligne claire of comics, 50s drawing and Pre-Raphaelite influences. Featuring women in particular, his illustrations always tell a story, filled with a thousand funny and colourful details and often supplemented by a comic bubble with a sarcastic comment. Cosmo’s work shows an overflowing, quirky and unique imagination. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” (Oscar Wilde) is her favourite quote, and she embodies it to perfection.

Specialising in illustration for young people, Fanny Ducassé lives and works in Paris. After graduating with a degree in modern literature, she spent two years studying fashion at the Chambre syndicale de la couture, where she developed an interest in illustration and the world of children. In 2015, she published her first book: De la tarte au citron, du thé et des étoiles (Thierry Magnier). Since then, Fanny Ducassé has published several books, each one a testament to her long and painstaking work. Her fine black felt-tip illustrations, coloured with Promarker, are as precise and full of detail as the work of a seamstress. Each of her illustrations takes us into a dreamlike, poetic and tender world.

Originally from Belgium, Giselle Dekel now lives and works in Israel. After studying textile design, she fell in love with illustration. In her work, she depicts the daily lives of many women, from the morning coffee to the repeated washing and the irresistible urge to stay in bed, all with a good dose of humour and guilt relief. Her minimalist, hard-hitting illustrations are a real remedy for the weariness of everyday life.

Lili Scratchy (pseudonym Frédérique Bellier) is a writer and illustrator of children’s books from Orléans. A graduate of the École de communication visuelle (ECV), she has gone on to work in a wide variety of professional fields: textile graphics, illustration for publishing, the press, stationery, board games and ceramics. Lili Scratchy’s main sources of inspiration are art brut, Japanese design and manga. She evolves in a naïve, cartoonish world seen through the prism of adult reflections. Her pop universe, ultra-colourful, optimistic and teeming with detail, doesn’t stop at paper. She applies this touch of explosive fantasy to a wide range of everyday objects and fabrics, as well as to her ceramic work, which plays an important role in her work.

A graduate of the École Estienne in Paris and the Beaux-Arts in Angers, Noémie Malaize has been a freelance graphic designer since 2017. Her escapades and her relationship with gastronomy feed her artistic practice. In 2019, she founded Ilôts, a magazine highlighting edible territories. With one eye on the landscape and the other on the plate, she writes gourmet postcards, imagines culinary haikus and often lingers at the table. Her illustrations are made up of paper cut-outs and coloured pencils with a cheerful palette, from which this artist likes to draw to keep track of the paths she has taken or to sketch the next landscapes she dreams of surveying.

After several years as an art director, Sophia Babari embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in 2015 and now works for a variety of media (publishing, press, visual identity, artwork, packaging). She has also created several impressive frescoes in France (for the Siseng restaurants on the banks of the Canal Saint Martin in Paris, La Grande Marée in Dunkirk) and internationally (in Baja California, Mexico). Using only ink on paper, Sophia Babari’s practice combines the delicacy of pointillism with the sure gesture of line. Her illustrations, teeming with detail, plunge us straight into a fantastic world.

Séverine Assous is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. A graduate in engraving from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she worked for many years as an art director in advertising agencies. She now devotes her time to illustration and motion design, working for the press, children’s publishing and advertising. Her illustrations are characterised by a minimalist approach, with stylised figures and exaggerated proportions. Her style is joyful and daring, with pop colours applied in broad strokes.

A Parisian illustrator, Marine de Quénetain was introduced to creativity, colour and design by her parents at an early age. After graduating from ESAG Penninghen in 2009, she co-founded M2D2, a graphic design studio well-known in the publishing world. She worked regularly with a number of magazines (Elle, Grazia, Gala, etc.) and prestigious brands (Van Cleef, Hachette, LVMH), until she turned to painting in 2022. Today she defines herself as a committed illustrator, connected to ecological and societal issues.

Lucile Piketty is a printmaker and illustrator who lives and works in Paris, having graduated from the École Estienne and the Arts Décoratifs de Paris after a spell at Parsons (New York). Winner of the 2016 Lacourière engraving prize, she has illustrated several books (Éditions De La Martinière, Seuil, Thierry Magnier) and works regularly with the press and museums (Musée du Louvre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle). Her pastel illustrations for Editions Artazart take you on a dreamlike journey through gardens.

Parisian collage artist Morgane Hébert discovered the Dada movement and collage in 2016, and hasn’t looked back since! In 2019, she will produce her first commissions, and in 2020, her first collaborations and exhibitions. To make her collages, she hunts through and cuts out magazines and books of all kinds and from all eras, working on a variety of media: paper, wall, glass frame, etc. She attaches great importance to aesthetics and harmony in her creations, rather than to the message. She likes to make images that have nothing to do with each other collide to create stories and get the viewer’s imagination going.

Sheina Szlamka is a young illustrator and art director living and working in Paris. After training at the prestigious School of Visual Arts of New York and ESAG Penninghen in Paris, she devoted herself entirely to illustration and painting, using ink and acrylics as her preferred media. She works for fashion, the press, advertising and culture, and has illustrated the books Audacieuses ! and Guérisseuses d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, published by Éditions Eyrolles.

Téo Transinne is a young, self-taught illustrator from Lyon. Using coloured pencil, he draws everyday life and intimacy through contemplative scenes. Somewhere between American realism and pop art, his illustrations mainly depict urban landscapes, but transform reality with a certain poetry. The artist willingly shifts her gaze and lingers on details, changing the usual point of view and transforming colours. Each of her works becomes an invitation to a moment of calm,

Yukiko Noritake was born in Aichi, Japan. A 2018 graduate of the École de Condé, she began her career as an illustrator with the publication of her subject of study(Voyage au pays des odeurs) by Actes Sud Junior. Her acrylic work is delicate and poetic, illustrating views and landscapes in gentle evocations. She has been published many times in children’s illustration, notably by Actes Sud with the now unmissable Forêt des frères (2020).

Antoine Meurant is an illustrator who lives and works in Paris. As a child, he loved to spread out his coloured pencils on his bedroom table and spend whole afternoons in front of a quarter-sized grape. Later, he naturally chose a profession linked to images, graphic design, before turning to illustration. Since then, he has worked with communications agencies, publishers and institutions. Spending hours at a time on his windowsill, he observes the street scene and, very quickly, Paris becomes an important subject in his drawings. Passers-by in the streets, scenes from everyday life, drawings of architecture and landmarks: the City of Light comes alive under his pencil, in a style reminiscent of Belgian comics.