Illoagency x Artwort | Illustrated Interview to Toby Melville-Brown

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This is a series of illustrated interviews created in partnership with Illo Agency, an illustration agency based in the UK, working with a roster of talented illustrators, connecting them with major progressive brands to communicate their message and align their mutual values. The concept is always the same: five prompts that illustrators respond to with small drawings — not something complex or highly polished, but quick sketches on paper, like when we were kids and gave shape to our imagination. This is Toby Melville-Brown.

Illo Agency represents a roster of diverse artists from around the world, who are independent thinkers, driven by what they believe in and enjoy what they create.

Toby Melville-Brown is a visual artist who draws spaces, both real and imaginary, as a form of daydreaming.

His works depict intricate landscapes or curations of curious spaces, hand-rendered, then digitally manipulated. Subjects include: architecture, infrastructure, and memory. Presented through a lens of vivid colour.

After graduating from Transportation Design in 2012 and receiving an eccentric brief from BMW’s Head of Design to illustrate a world in 2050, Toby made an about turn into speculative illustration. Clients include Burberry, Wimbledon Tennis, and Nike. The thread that connects all Toby’s projects is an ambition to use illustration to transport us somewhere new.

Despite a fantastical lilt, Toby is determined to use his work to challenge real-world issues. Such as; raising funds to the women and girls charity, Refuge, with his lockdown artwork, creating collaborative artworks with Kent’s refugee community, and creating artworks that seek to convey life in a wheelchair, following work with Multiple Sclerosis charity, Shift.ms.