Zoe Waring

Zoe Waring grew up in the small market town of Darlington, surrounded by children's books, colouring pencils and penny sweets. At University she studied Graphic Design, specialising in Illustration, and was highly commended in the Macmillan prize 2001. She then moved to London and won the Graduate Tigerprint Future of Design Award, and worked as a Designer and Illustrator at Hallmark Cards for three years. Her love for picture books blossomed and she went on to work as a picture book designer...See more

Zoe Waring grew up in the small market town of Darlington, surrounded by children's books, colouring pencils and penny sweets. At University she studied Graphic Design, specialising in Illustration, and was highly commended in the Macmillan prize 2001. She then moved to London and won the Graduate Tigerprint Future of Design Award, and worked as a Designer and Illustrator at Hallmark Cards for three years. Her love for picture books blossomed and she went on to work as a picture book designer for Usborne Publishing, Random House Children's Books, Scholastic and Bloomsbury Publishing, while spending her evenings filling sketchbooks with her own cute characters, doodles and daydreams. In 2014, she took the leap from Publishing to focus on her true passion, Illustration. Loving the warmth and humour often found in children's picture books, Zoe loves creating engaging characters that help to tell wonderful stories. Now working in her sunny studio in Muswell Hill, London, she can still be found surrounded by children's books, colouring pencils and penny sweets. See less