Ian Bilbey

Ian Bilbey graduated from the Royal College of Art and straight after he worked with John McConnell at pentagram before he became a freelance designer and illustrator.

Bilbey was well known for working with his longest client 'Paul Smith', for whom he had created products, window displays, posters, clothing designs and his well recognised Paul Smith minis.

He is now recently known as 'William Bee' and has written and illustrated numerous amounts of children's books for walker books, which have officially been published all around the world.

To me I find his work quirky and bright, mainly concentrating on colour and line.
Especially this piece of work Ian Bilbey had created, I discovered this illustration which stood out for me the most because of the use of colours, by overlapping the dark colour by the bright shades of pinks and purples you could recognise what the outline shape was supposed to be and even with this choice of colours and the type of shapes that have been used it almost makes the image look slightly feminine and child like.