Astrid Castle is a freelance artist / illustrator / surface / product designer. She works from her home studio in Cape Town's deepest South, Glencarin. Designing alongside her fiance Sebastian, illustrating books, sketching commissions, doing freelance artwork and of course drinking coffee and making art for art sake.

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2012
July

Illustration

ATKV Book awards for best illustrated children's book (Afrikaans)

Die Spookskip by Antionette Diederiecks. Tafelburg Publishers.

2016
June

Illustration

MER Book prize for best illustrated children's book.

Die Dingesfabriek by Elizabeth Wassermann. Publishers. Media 24.

Publishers I have
worked for:

Oxford University Press
Penguin
Cambridge University Press
Pearson
Macmillan
Maskew Miller Longman
Shuter and Shooter
NB Publishers
Tafelburg
Struik
Hinemann

Other illustration
commissions

Crosbow Marketing
Crazy Cat Designs
Winterset
Castle Investments
Loyde Triana Designs
Many Loeb
Rustenburg Girls High
Designs for lasercutting.capetown

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