INTRODUCTION

Jason Brooks is an award winning fashion and lifestyle illustrator with great experience of working  across a range of industry sectors, from major advertising campaigns to gallery exhibitions.

Please CONTACT Jason to discuss your project here: jason@jason-brooks.com

SERVICES

  • ADVERTISING

Jason Brooks has a wealth of experience working with advertising agencies and luxury brands worldwide on successful advertising campaigns across all platforms, from websites and social media, to print, live events and publishing. As well as beautiful artwork, he can provide concepts for a wide range of projects, from completely illustrated  advertising stories, to film concepts, installations, product design, storyboards, interiors and fine art exhibitions.  He is very happy to create custom artwork and designs in collaborative team structures, working closely and professionally with clients and art directors to achieve powerfully effective results.

Clients include: Chanel, Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc, Michael Kors, Super Yachts Monaco, Virgin Atlantic, Illy Coffee, Finlandia Vodka, Veuve Cliquot,  Daimaru Shinsaibashi, Varena, Rolzo, Revlon, Lancôme, Raffles, Ritz Hotels, Sothebys, Tiffany&Co.

  • ART

Jason Brooks has exhibited his work in Tokyo, St Petersburg and Singapore, as well as New York and London with esteemed Gray M.C.A Gallery. His artwork is held in private collections worldwide, and over 70 of his prints and drawings are housed in the permanent collection of London’s V&A Museum, as well as New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Signed limited edition prints are available from the online shop as well as unique original artworks.

  • BEAUTY 

Jason Brooks’ cast of beautiful people lend themselves to cosmetics and makeup related  imagery, from advertising and packaging to editorial ‘how-to’s’. He can work in a range of styles to compliment and express brand identity and messaging.

Clients include: Chanel, Lancôme, L’Oreal, Coty, Jo Malone, Revlon, Vogue.

  • CALLIGRAPHY

Jason Brooks has provided handwriting for numerous publishing and advertising projects. His calligraphy can also be found in the three award winning published books he has written and illustrated ;  New York, Paris and London Sketchbook.

Clients include: Laurence King Publishing, Revlon, 4th Estate, Conde Nast.

  • FASHION 

Jason Brooks’ signature fashion illustration style continues to evolve in media ranging from paint and pencil to Photoshop and Illustrator. His experience of drawing live at fashion weeks in New York, London and Paris Couture underpin his flair for creating bold and impactful fashion imagery and he was a pioneer of bringing digital technology to the field in the 1990’s in groundbreaking style.

Clients include: Chanel, Vogue, Elle, The Face, Gray M.C.A, Sunday Times Style, Visionaire as well as numerous fashion illustration publications including ‘100 Years of Fashion Illustration’ and ‘Fashion Illustration Now’.

  •  TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE

Travel is a recurrent theme and source of inspiration throughout his artwork and Brooks’ depictions of glamorous people and beautiful locations lend themselves to advertising campaigns, brand websites , posters, magazine covers, storyboards and editorials. These visuals are inspired by his own experiences and love of travel. He also enjoys designing vehicles of all kinds as well as architecture and interiors, all imbued with his unique style.

Clients include: Superyachts Monaco,  Virgin Atlantic, Globe-Trotter, Ritz Hotels, Veuve Clicquot, Sunstar, Finlandia, Nespresso, Hedkandi, Martini, Peninsula Hotels, Hotel Du-Cap Eden Roc, Conde Nast Traveller, Fly Society, Raffles, Michael Kors.

  • LICENSING

Brooks distinctive style makes his artwork  ideal for licensing ranges in product and print. He has a large archive of illustrations across a range of subjects, that can be viewed on request.

Clients include: Mark’s Stationery, Safta,Image Republic.

  • LIVE EVENTS

Jason  has hosted fashion drawing classes at the Society of illustrators, New York, as well as Somerset House and the Courtauld Institute  in London,and Messums Wiltshire. He has also hosted live drawing events with Chanel and drawn live at numerous fashion shows in London, New York and the Paris Couture. He has also hosted an ‘in conversation’evening at London’s V&A and Fashion Textiles Museums as well as at F.I.T and Rizzoli Books in New York. Each year he also meets students from Artcenter, Pasadena for a creative portfolio critique. Jason can be booked to host fashion drawing classes, create portraits for press events, or give talks and teaching sessions related to art and design worldwide.

Clients Include : Chanel, The Courtauld, V&A Museum, F.I.T New York, Society of Illustrators, New York, ArtCenter California, Messums Gallery, Gray MCA Gallery.

  •  PACKAGING AND COVER ARTWORK

Jason Brooks has a proven flair for designing eye catching covers having illustrated over a 100 album covers for Hedkandi music and achieving sales of over 6 million units.

  • PUBLISHING 

Jason illustrated and authored the ‘City Sketchbook’ trilogy including London, Paris and New York Sketchbooks with Laurence King Publishing, London. His work has also appeared in books including 100 Years Of Fashion Illustration, New Icons of Fashion Illustration and Fashion Illustration Now.

Clients Include : Laurence King Publishing.

  • SPORTS 

Jason Brooks fluid style, and sense of movement and perspective, along with his love of sports including windsurfing, skiing, scuba diving and tennis make his work ideal for sport related design and illustration projects.

Clients Include : Brugnoli Cycling, Ellesse.

  • CHARACTER DESIGN

Brooks’ imagination, figure drawing and sense of fashion and narrative apply naturally to character design.

Clients include:  Lucasfilm, specifically the black and white casino scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

  • STORE WINDOW DESIGN

Jason Brooks eye catching artwork is ideal for window displays and retail installations.  He enjoys generating design concepts as well as executing finished artwork at any scale.

Clients include:  Tiffany & Co, Illy Coffee (complete design and illustration for over 20 completed store windows)

AWARDS

  • Vogue/Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration
  • V&A Museum Book Illustration Award, London Sketchbook.
  • Author and illustrator of ‘Paris Sketchbook’ ‘London Sketchbook’ and ‘New York Sketchbook’.
  • BA Hons in Graphic Design and Illustration / St Martin’s School of Art
  • Master of Arts in Illustration / Royal College of Art

BIOGRAPHY

Jason Brooks was born on 23 February 1969 in London,  and grew up in Brighton, England where he now lives with his wife Nila, and two children. He began drawing and painting avidly as a small boy and was particularly inspired by a formative trip to The Uffizi Gallery at age 6, where he became enthralled by Renaissance painting and sculpture.  As a boy he was an avid collector of  DC comics and Tintin Books, immersing himself in their cover art and visual language, and was also fascinated by the drawings of Saul Steinberg, David Hockney and Pablo Picasso. In his early teens he received his first freelance commissions, drawing maps and making illustrations for windsurfing companies, another early passion. His parents are both artists ,who consistently encouraged his inate obsession with drawing and making pictures.

After A levels in Art, History of Art, Geography and English, Jason went on to graduate with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from St Martins College in London in the 1990’s, another highly formative experience, where he began working regularly for British Vogue after winning the Vogue Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration. With British Vogue he gained valuable experience of answering briefs and seeing his work in print each month in a range of media. Vogue went on to publish over 50 of his illustrations while he was still in his early 20’s and he was the first to publish digital illustrations in its pages.

While at St Martin’s School of Art, Jason began travelling widely,  filling colourful travel sketchbooks with drawings, painting, notes, and collages. He won a bursary from Thames Television and further award as the best of the bursaries that year, for a project exploring Mayan archaeological sites across Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. This was followed by trips with his sketchbooks to Morocco, Kenya  Italy, Portugal, the South of France, New York and across Europe and travel has continued to be a recurrent theme and passion. Living in the Portobello and Notting Hill area of London in the 1990’s was also a formative time for his aesthetic style to develop.

After completing a Masters Degree in Illustration at the Royal Collage of Art in London,  Jason was commissioned to illustrate several seasons of the Paris Couture Shows for the Independent Newspaper and illustrated reports from London and New York fashion weeks for Elle and Visionaire. He also created his first advertising campaign for Faberge perhaps the first to feature digital fashion illustration,  and  continued working with magazines including The Face, Vogue, Elle and World of Interiors.  At this time he also illustrated a pioneering series of glossy flyers for cult London club, Pushca,  and subsequently began designing and illustrating album covers for record label Hedkandi, selling in excess of 6 million albums.  These experiences provided an education and foundation for his later career, and alongside being a professional artist he sees himself as a lifelong student of art.

Jason is particularly noted as being among the first fashion illustrators to embrace and pioneer  computer technology in his field. The glamorous and aspirational world he presents in his work  is a combination of life experience and imagination, and has provided a means of communication for a wide range of luxury and lifestyle brands.

Jason’s first book, Paris Sketchbook was published in 2013 and began a series of colourful travel journals depicting different cities around the world. Its follow up,  London Sketchbook , was published in Spring 2015, and went on to win the V&A Museum Book Illustration award in 2016, the following year ‘New York Sketchbook’ completed the ‘City Sketchbook’ trilogy. All were conceived, written, researched and illustrated by Jason, an rewarding project that has enriched his repertoire of styles, and archive of images.

Each year Jason works closely with clients and luxury brands around the world, delivering professional, diverse and successful projects.

Jason Brooks artwork continues to evolve in style, range and technique.

For commission enquiries please find CONTACT information at the top of this page. Thank you.