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Top 25 Illustration companies based in the United Kingdom

Name: Illustration companies based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 1,089 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,089 illustration companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,506 professional contacts across them, including 696 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers illustration companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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4,506Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest illustration companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,089 illustration companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to illustration companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Hachette Children's Group	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	137 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hachette Children’s Group is one of the largest children’s publishers in the UK, with an excellent track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	The Bright Agency	Indirect evidence	Battersea, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	130 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bright is a global agency that nurtures passionate, gifted artists and authors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Advocate-Art	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	126 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Advocate Art was founded in 1992, with a group of illustrators who liked the idea of having an agent but not the other things that often came with that.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4	The Line Studio	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	89 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re a globally renowned animation studio based in East LDN, working across advertising, interactive media, music videos, and original content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5	Karrot	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	72 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a vibrant animation studio in London, specialising in character, design and storytelling using digital traditional animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6	GMJ	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	59 contacts →
	Strong evidence “GMJ was founded in 1990 with a vision to reinvent the grand tradition of architectural illustration and model-making for the 21st century by pushing the boundaries of digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7	Mooncolony	Indirect evidence	Cambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Adventures await.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	Book On A Tree LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Book on a Tree is a storytelling and creative smithery that creates and sells children’s and YA books, offers 360-degree writing and editorial services, and develops IPs and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	The Association Of Illustrators	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Association of Illustrators is the professional body for illustration in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	Quentin Blake Centre For Illustration	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, is the new name for house of Illustration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11	Making Pictures	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	25 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Making Pictures represents exceptional photographers, directors, illustrators and animators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	Blue Kangaroo Design	Indirect evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Blue Kangaroo is a Creative Agency with a team that produce work which delights, excites and inspires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	Beehive Illustration LTD	Strong evidence	Cirencester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Strong evidence “BEEHIVE ILLUSTRATION LIMITED is an Illustration agency based in the Cotswolds representing over 150 artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14	The Plum Agency	Indirect evidence	Reigate, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 2006, Plum is a global, industry-leading agency specialising in children’s publishing and media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15	The Charactershop	Indirect evidence	Worcester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CharacterShop are an award-winning animation studio and production company, based in Worcester, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	Dynamo Limited	Strong evidence	Exeter, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Dynamo is a specialist creative services company, providing bespoke digital, editorial, design, illustration and animation services to global B2B & B2C clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	Amber Books LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Amber Books Ltd is an illustrated non-fiction publisher and book packaging company based in north London, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	Trevillion Images	Indirect evidence	Brighton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in the UK, Trevillion is now one of the leading creative photo agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	3dtotal.com LTD	Indirect evidence	Worcester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in as a simple 3D resource website, 3dtotal.com has since evolved into one of the premier digital art websites in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Opus Artz LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Opus Artz is an outsourcing art & entertainment design agency based in London, UK with a strong creative team of highly experienced artists focused on production design We provide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	Myth Studio	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Myth is a multi award-winning animation & motion design studio in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Chromatic Studio	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Chromatic is a high-end concept art and visual development studio focused on film, games, and television.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Graphic Design London	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We design beautiful things.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Shotopop	Strong evidence	Hackney, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We're an award-winning design, illustration and animation studio based in East London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	Grand Matter	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Grand Matter is an artist representation agency, with a roster of distinctive illustrators and makers chosen for their grand ideas & creative curiosity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: illustration companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names illustration companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of illustration companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name illustration companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Illustration companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

15.4%Verified-email coverage

4.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

28.4%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,010

11-50

51-200

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,089 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among illustration companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “illustration companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names illustration companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among illustration companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 696 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Illustration companies by metro

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names illustration companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many illustration companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,089 illustration companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Hachette Children's Group, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most illustration companies?

London leads with 309 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (27) and Bristol (25).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 696 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,089 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.