Darya Shnykina is a freelance illustrator. With restrained and soothed colour palette she’s capturing calm, introspective moments in her artwork.

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CLIENTS: The New Yorker, Google, Eurostar, Hollywood Reporter, Evening Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Deseret News, Harper's Magazine, Radio Times, Vox Media, Polygon, VICE, The Folio Society, Universal Pictures, Canadian Cycling Magazine, 5280, Coffee T&I Magazine, An Otherwise, Actes Sud, Gaïa Éditions, Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM), Dark City Gallery, Clever, Great Star Media

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Adobe Creative Cloud, Creative Boom, Communication Arts

AWARDS: In 2017 Darya won the Book Illustration Competition run by the Folio Society and the House of Illustration (London, UK), in 2018 was shortlisted in the Communication Arts Annual (USA) and won the Merit Award in 3X3 Illustration Annual in 2019. Her work was selected by Creative Boom in 25 of the best illustration projects in 2020. In 2024 she won Award of Excellence by the Communication Arts Annual (USA).

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