Project & interview requests: Email me
Literary Agent: Writers House

I am an Australian-born, Los Angeles based graphic designer, illustrator and picture book maker whose work has appeared on everything from toys and tea cups to busses and buildings.

My characters dance across Museo del Prado's ceramics and stationery, populate Swiss Credit Cards and sleep on the walls of a Copenhagen hotel (where I replaced the bed with a tent).

I have exhibited, spoken at design conferences, and led workshops all over the world including the Pictoplasma Academy in Berlin, where I teach character design.

I have illustrated books I have written (Her Idea, The Best Book in the World) and ones I have not (Jane Yolen’s A Bear Sat on my Porch Today, Lemony Snicket’s Swarm of Bees). One I both wrote and illustrated, The New Rooster, won a New York Times/New York Public Library 2022 Best Illustrated Children’s Book.

I have made board book series (Touchwords, Motor Mix) and a set of pocket sized books for preschoolers (Hippo Park Pals). Herbert on the Slide was named a 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Book.

My latest picture book You Rule! is about measuring immeasurable things in life like bravery, kindness and love and is out now.

Design and Illustration Projects:
Character, branding, packaging,
stationery, signage, installation,
event, exhibition, book, cover,
poster, product & pattern design

Picture Books:
Illustrator & Author/Illustrator

Clients: Start ups & small companies,
established brands (Puma, Nokia, Absolut, MTV, Billabong, Volkswagen),
publishers & magazines (Chronicle, Little Brown, Pearson, Gestalten, Victionary), institutions & festivals (Pictoplasma, La Casa Encendida, Museo del Prado) and agencies (Winkreative, Weiden & Kennedy, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA Chiat Day, McCann-Erickson)

Rilla Alexander