Illustration Portfolio Sam Osborne

I worked with Adobe as part of their CoCreate team for Adobe Max 2020 to create a series of illustrated session notes that accompanied Aaron Draplin’s talk at the conference. The illustrations were used across a range of digital and social media platforms.

Custom illustration for a marketing agency’s Christmas card

Hand-lettered trick or treat headline for poster and greetings cards with Halloween illustrations

Series of 26 illustrated animals A-Z used for book and accompanying posters.

Book cover illustration for a book about education and the workplace published by OUP  

I created a series of ten illustrations for Wentworth Woodhouse Gardens of the standout features of the garden – from beehives to terraced walks.

Logo featuring custom lettering and illustration

26 individual letter designs

Tastebud Magazine Cover Art for their baking issue.

Lettering based logo for a not for profit art crawl in my home town. The project also included the design of a leaflets and assets for social media.

Series of illustrations for a presentation. Commissioned by Penguin Random House.

I created a series of 27 illustrations for Lollipop Library to theme each of their book categories – one for each letter of the alphabet plus a story sack.

Working with Save The Children’s in house design team I created a series of 13 illustrations for a poster and leaflet to educate children about what they can expect from those looking after them and who to turn to for help.

A series of over 40 illustrations for overseas development charity CAFOD’S World Gifts. Working closely with the CAFOD team, I took their descriptions of each gift and bought them to life with uplifting colour and empowering storytelling.

Illustration created for COG design as part of their regular cultural newsletter.

A series of illustrations created for Emma May Stitching’s online Roman Blind instructional course.

Series of hand-lettered phrases designed to counter the hyper motivational culture found on social media.

Illustration and design of marketing material for a property based social enterprise in Oxford.

Series of three illustrations about aspects of the Covid-19 lockdown for a charity colouring in book created by First Art. I created both black and white line drawings and full colour versions.

21 composer portrait illustrations for Classic FM’s Hall of Fame

As part of the branding project for Styled by Jessica Rogers I created a series of illustrations to showcase her services.

The team at Aptus Audio approached me as they wanted an illustration for their new website. I created this montage illustration where the areas they work in overlay and meld into each other at different scales.

Series of 12 black and white line drawing illustrations and diagrams to accompany the self-help book A Little Peace of Mind.

Series of illustrated chapter heading pages for How To Grow…

Series of 120 illustrated objects and concepts for Great Ormond Street Hospital branding.

EarthKind make shampoo and conditioning bars and have an environmental ethos that they wanted to promote as part of a campaign. I worked with the team to create five brand illustrations that were used across various digital platforms.

Series of illustrations for Bulletin Magazine including the cover illustration, inside double page spread and spots

Two campaign illustrations for electoral reform.

Design and illustration of a kids activity leaflet to accompany the Design Museum’s Cycle Revolution exhibition.

Fully illustrated 12-page book that can be used as a time capsule to record events, thoughts, and feelings during the Covid-19 lockdown. Created for First Art.

Design of three characters, booklet and poster commissioned as part of a campaign to help parents keep children safe online

Poster and social media assets created for #TurnUp to encourage young people to vote.

Illustrations and page layout for a book aimed at older siblings to help them understand pregnancy and the birth of their new brother or sister.

Having created a suite of composer illustrations for Classic FM’s Hall of Fame I then worked with their charity Make Some Noise to create a jigsaw puzzle from the illustrations.

Logo and brand design plus character illustrations for their annual awards promotional campaign.

Oxfordshire places and communities illustration for OCVA’s new website.

Series of illustrations and maps for Oxford University’s Oxford for Oxford Secondary Schools programme

Typographic environmental illustration for apparel and accessories.

Oxford map illustration for Forward magazine from Think Publishing

Cover illustration for a newspaper supplement magazine cover about garden DIY

Spot illustration to accompany an article about getting outdoors.

Illustration commission for WI Life Magazine consisting of a full spread and two supporting spot illustrations.

Brand design and illustrations for website and app of a technology company