See the 82 selected projects, and watch videos of the international jury publishers talking about their favourite work and sharing valuable insights for illustrators.
The selected projects >Our guest curators have once again selected their favourite 100 picturebooks on dPICTUS. Members can view these titles in full; non-members can see two spreads from each title.
The 100 picturebooks >Ingrid Godon talks about her working process, and shares stunning illustrations from some of her books. She also shows us wonderful ceramic sculptures and textile art.
Read Ingrid’s blog post >Gianni Rodari & Beatrice Alemagna
Emme Edizioni, Italy
Marie Mirgaine
Les Fourmis Rouges, France
Manuel Marsol
Orecchio Acerbo | Orfeu Negro | Fulgencio Pimentel, Italy
Kristin Roskifte
Magikon Forlag, Norway
José Jorge Letria & André Letria
Pato Lógico, Portugal
Anete Melece
Liels un mazs, Latvia
Luca Caimmi
Éditions Notari, Switzerland
James Thurber & JooHee Yoon
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy
Anne Brouillard
Pastel, Belgium
Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal
Sara Lundberg
Mirando Bok, Sweden
Emma AdBåge
Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden
Espen Dekko & Mari Kanstad Johnsen
Magikon Forlag, Norway
Joan Negrescolor
Orfeu Negro, Portugal
Wolf Erlbruch
Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Germany
Peter Elliott & Kitty Crowther
Pastel, Belgium
Daniel Nesquens & Miren Asiain Lora
Eerdmans, United States
Eva Lindström
Alfabeta Bokförlag, Sweden
Alexandra Litvina & Anna Desnitskaya
Samokat, Russia
Vojtěch Mašek & Valoušek Chrudoš
Baobab, Czech Republic
“dPICTUS is a beautiful and comfortable meeting point where we can share our brand new projects with interesting publishers. We join with the principle: bring another friend with you.”
“I use dPICTUS to access online versions of picturebooks I’ve seen and discussed at book fairs. I also look at books in advance of the fairs by publishers I like. It’s a great product!”
“It’s great to find such high quality titles on dPICTUS, and the publishing houses here are very interesting. I know many of them well and we often meet at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.”
“We’re big fans of dPICTUS here at Orfeu Negro – especially the buying team. We simply love it and we’ve presented it to other publishers, who love it too. It’s a very useful platform.”
“dPICTUS is a lovely place, inhabited by nice people and full of wonderful selected books. It’s a very useful tool to stay up to date with new titles from interesting publishers.”
“On dPICTUS, I feel like I really belong to a community of like-minded publishers with a mutual understanding of what makes a beautiful, modern picturebook. A wonderful tool for business.”
“dPICTUS is a fantastic concept! My clients find it very useful to browse titles prior to our meeting at the book fairs and they are glad to get such a nicely presented overview of what’s new. The platform is easy to use and it looks fabulous.”
“I’m very excited about dPICTUS and I’m honoured to be a part of it. It helps us stay up to date with the most interesting new picturebooks from around the world; in fact, we’ve just published a stunning title which I discovered on the platform.”
Ingrid Godon is a Flemish artist and book illustrator. Since the 1980s, she’s illustrated many books for adults and children, some of which have been translated into dozens of languages. Ingrid has won a large number of awards over the years, and has been nominated four times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA).
See this post from Ingrid Godon >Axel Scheffler has illustrated some of the world’s most well-loved children’s books. ‘The Gruffalo’ is considered one of the most successful picturebooks of all time, having been translated into 86 languages/dialects and sold over 14 million copies. Axel was born in Hamburg, and has lived and worked in London since the 1980s.
See this post from Axel Scheffler >ATAK (Georg Barber) is an artist, graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Berlin. He’s had many solo exhibitions and worked on a variety of books, comics and illustrations for publications such as TIME and The New York Times. ATAK is also Professor of Illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle.
See this post from ATAK >Anete Melece studied Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia and Animation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her animated short ‘The Kiosk’ has been shown in film festivals around the world and received many awards. Anete lives and works in Zürich as an animator and illustrator of comics and children’s books.
See this post from Anete Melece >Sara Lundberg worked as a painter before focusing on picturebooks. She’s now illustrated over thirty books with Swedish authors, and has written several of her own. Her 2017 picturebook ‘The Bird Within Me Flies Wherever it Wants’ received the prestigious August Prize and Snöbollen for the best Swedish children’s book of the year.
See this post from Sara Lundberg >Daniel Fehr is a picturebook author and board game designer. He studied photography at Zurich University of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts in New York, and then he studied German literature and media at Princeton University. Daniel currently lives and works in Winterthur, Switzerland, the town where he grew up.
See this post from Daniel Fehr >(There are currently around 500 publishing professionals from 50 countries on the dPICTUS platform)