Jason Brooks (born February 23, 1969) is an artist, illustrator and author. He grew up in

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

on the south coast of

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. Brooks is known for his design of the

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compilations. Brooks studied

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

Central Saint Martins Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

college,

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, and went on to take a master's degree in illustration at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

. While at college he won the Vogue Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration. In the 2010s, Brooks authored and illustrated ''Paris Sketchbook'' (2012), ''London Sketchbook'' (2014), and ''New York Sketchbook'' (2017), a series of urban sketch books published by Laurence King, London. ''London Sketchbook'' received the V&A Museum Book Illustration Award in 2016.

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External links

Official siteJason Brooks images at the Folio illustration agency
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Jason English illustrators Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of Central Saint Martins Living people 1969 births Place of birth missing (living people)