Margaux Carpentier - Beatrix Potter Collection for Audible

  • Tess Redburn

Audible came to us with a dream brief. They were releasing a collection of Beatrix Potter stories and were looking for an illustrator who could design the look and feel of the collection... someone who could bring a new perspective to an illustration classic. No easy task. Margaux Carpentier totally nailed it, bringing her cheerful, graphic illustration style to the project, creating a totally distinctive approach to the original, without loosing any of the warmth and familiarity of the characters.

The cherry on the top was seeing Andrew Scott narrating the story with Margaux's characters hopping around him. This promotional video content featuring an interview with Margaux, brought the illustration front and centre, which is especially refreshing to see in the world of audiobooks that has often sidelined visual art to thumbnails.