Allan Drummond

Allan’s award winning children's books are published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin books, and Orchard Books. Allan created the mural and floor designs in Holborn underground station, and was one of the artists chosen to illustrate the Royal Mail’s Millennium year postage stamps.

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Background

Before joining the staff at Cambridge School of Art, Allan was Chair of Illustration at SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has been a visiting lecturer at a large number universities, art schools and libraries in the UK and the USA.

Allan trained as reporter and sub-editor on the East Anglian Daily Times before studying graphic design at the London College of Printing, where his final year tutor was the great poster designer Tom Eckersley. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art, where his tutors were Quentin Blake and the printmaker Sheila Robinson.

As an illustrator, writer and designer Allan’s client list includes The Royal Mail, London Underground, The New Yorker magazine, Time Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and many corporate and advertising clients.

Research interests

• The intersection and interaction of words and pictures in print and digital media.
• Exploring facts and historical events through the medium of children’s picture books. 

Teaching

Allan currently teaches on the following modules:

• Illustration Practice 1
• Understanding Images

Qualifications

• MA (Royal College of Art) Illustration
• BA (Hons) Graphic Design, London College of Printing
• Diploma, National Council for the Training of Journalists

Memberships, editorial boards

• Association of Illustrators
• New York Society of Illustrators
• Advisory Board (illustration) Saturday Evening Post (2005 – 2008)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Founding sponsor of Varoom magazine UK (the international research publication for illustration)
• Judge - Association of Illustrators Annual 2003
• Judge - USA 3x3 illustration awards 2011
• Judge – Venice Teatrio Children’s Book Illustration Competition 2012

Selected recent publications

Drummond A., (2021). Energy and Me. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond. The Commonwealth. ISBN 9781849292023

Drummond A., (2021). The Energy Around Us. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond. The Commonwealth. ISBN 9781849292030

Drummond A., (2021). Roads to Clean Energy. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond. The Commonwealth. ISBN 9781849292016

Drummond, A., Alexander, L., (2020). A Sporting Chance. How Ludwig Guttman Created the Paralympic Games. Illustrated by Allan Drummond, Houghton Mifflin, Boston USA. ISBN 9781328580795

Drummond, A., (2020). Solar Story. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond, Farrar Straus and Giroux New York ISBN 9780374308995

Drummond, A., (2017). Pedal Power. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond, Farrar Straus and Giroux New York ISBN 9780374305277

Drummond, A., (2016). Green City. Written and Illustrated by Allan Drummond, Farrar Straus and Giroux New York ISBN 0374379998

Ovenden, M., (2013). London Underground by Design. Featuring Holborn murals by Allan Drummond). Penguin Books. London. ISBN 10: 1846144175

Drummond, A., (2011). Energy Island. Written and illustrated by Allan Drummond, Farrar Straus and Giroux. New York. Translations in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish ISBN 978125005676

Recent presentations and conferences

COP 26 Climate Conference, Glasgow. 5 November 2021. Seminar with schoolchildren from across The Commonwealth.