Diane G., Illustrator

Illustration

Diane G.

A line that knows where it's going.

Diane G. is an illustrator for identities, packaging, and campaigns. A confident, graphic hand that gives a brand something a photograph never could: evidence that a person made it.

Diane draws in ink, from life where possible, and redraws rather than corrects. Trained as a printmaker, which is why the drawings survive being engraved, stitched and painted on a wall.

Selected Work
The Botanist — the aubergine box with its botanical line illustration, beside the violet bottle

The Botanist — Packaging & Illustration, 2024

The Sprig

A fine botanical line illustration for a skincare box, drawn from the flowering source plant and foiled onto deep aubergine — the one hand-made mark on an otherwise photographic launch.

The Gannet — ink drawings of a gannet, crab, shell, knot and lighthouse across the illustrator's desk

The Gannet — Illustration, 2024

Fourteen Drawings

A family of fourteen creatures and objects from a working harbour — one for each room of a hotel, in place of a number — all in a single navy ink line so they could be printed, engraved, painted and stitched without redrawing.

The Heron Who Waited — an open picture book on linen: a heron in blue ink standing against a block of ochre, reeds on the facing page

Independent Work — Picture Book, 2024

The Heron Who Waited

Illustrations for a children's picture book, drawn in ink and two colours. Published in four languages.

The Weekend Cook — a linocut-style illustration in green, yellow and black of a whole fish with lemons, herbs and a knife

Independent Work — Newspaper Commission, Ongoing

The Weekend Cook

A weekly illustration for a national newspaper's food pages — four years, two hundred drawings, all linocut.

Within the Collective

Diane typically leads illustration for identities, packaging and campaigns, and is brought in early when a brand wants to feel made rather than manufactured. Diane works with V. on what should be drawn at all, and with the collective's brand and graphic designers, who build the systems the drawings live in.

All project enquiries are handled by Creative Director V. through Influence Design Studio.

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