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New Middle Grade, Fantasy illustrated Book
Graciela in the Abyss
Very excited to share the cover of our latest picture book Graciela in the Abyss (two covers, a map of the deep and 14 internal illustrations! This extraordinary fantasy story is set in the deepest recesses of the ocean! A sea ghost, a mortal boy, and a dangerous enchanted harpoon . . .Pub date July 1, 2025 Candlewick Press, USA
"A thrilling, action-packed journey filled with heart, bravery, and ghostly exploits."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Graciela in the Abyss Candlewick Press, USA 2025Middle Grade, Fantasy illustrated Book
Exhibition April-July 2025
The Art of Folio exhibit at The Society of Illustrators NY
Very proud to be part (with our artworks) of The Art of Folio! The Folio Society’s first-ever major exhibition, celebrating nearly 80 years of exceptional book art.
This landmark show features over 90 artists, and celebrates the wonders of book illustration in all its diversity of form & genre. We illustrated 10 books for The Folio Society! In this special show you can see our pieces from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!
The Art of Folio
At The Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY 10065
Start: April 16 End: July 12, 2025
Society of Illustrators NYC The Folio Society UK
100th Anniversary 2025
The Great Gatsby Beehive Books
Cover design, interior illustrations and decorations by ©2021 Balbusso Twins Graphic design by Maëlle Doliveux Beehive Books USA 2022. Part of Beehive Books Illuminated Editions, in which today’s greatest graphic artists bring new life to literary classics with original illustration and design.The F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY featuring eye-popping, full-color illustrations that combine jazz age decadence with a sleek modern sensibility.
The Great Gatsby Book Awards:
- 2023 Platinum Winner Graphis Design Awards 2024
- 2023 WIA World Illustration Awards 2023 Longlisted
- 2023 American Illustration 42 SELECTED Winner, Annual Book
- 2022 Merit Award 3x3 Show No.19
- 2022 American Illustration 41 SELECTED Winner, Annual Book
- 2022 CA's Award of Excellence Illustration Annual 63, Communication Arts Magazine, USA
- 2021 “Illustrators 64” selection Annual book and Exhibit, Society of Illustrators, New York, US
Artwork: Accident, the red shoes are our free artistic license and are the symbol of the fight for women's rights and against gender violence.
VISIT THE GREAT GATSBY BOOK GALLERY HERE
The Great Gatsby Accident©2021 Balbusso Twins Beehive Books 2022
New Cover Art
Thirsty Ground
Very excited about this new cover art created for Thirsty Ground by Kimber St. Lawrence , Union Square & co. USA 2025. A young astronaut must learn to survive on post-apocalyptic earth after he is paralyzed on a mission for water. Explore our Portfolio Cover artworks
Union Square & co. USA
LATEST NEWS
Special Event 2025
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Balbusso Twins at the Bologna Book Fair 2025 ‘The Art of Folio’
Award of Excellence Communication Arts 2025
SILA Illustration West 67, 10 Award Winning Images!
Very excited! We will unveil The Folio Society’s exhibition "The Art of Folio" on Monday 31 March at midday. This celebration of Folio’s work with book illustrators will be a tantalising taste of a major exhibition taking place at the Society of Illustrators in New York from 1 May to 12 July 2025. We share with you this article by Porter Anderson on publishingperspectives.com Thank you so much to Porter Anderson, The Folio Society, the Society of Illustrators NYC.
Epson Calendar Award of Excellence Communication Arts 2025
We are very happy and proud! Our five pieces for the Epson calendar 2024 Spectacular have been selected by the 2025 jury to appear in Illustration Annual 66 of Communication Arts @communicationarts institutional series. Of the 2,867 entries to the 66th Illustration Annual, only 110 were accepted, representing the work of 102 artists, making the Illustration Annual the most exclusive major illustration competition in the world.
We are very happy and proud! #10 Artworks have been selected into Illustration West 67 exhibit 2025! Big thank you to the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles jury and to all the art directors and clients who worked with us on these amazing projects. BRONZE AWARD: Menewood cover art. HONORABLE MENTION; Mary I Queen of Sorrows cover art, Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood cover art, Circus of Mirrors cover art, These Deathless Shores cover art, #4 artworks for Epson calendar Spectacuòar 2024
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
PLATINUM and GOLD Graphis 2025
3x3 Awards Annual 21
WIA 2024 Shortlisted Artists
Merit Award and Honorable Mention! Very proud, several images have been selected to be published in the 3x3 International Illustration Illustration Annual No.21 and the Online Gallery. Thank you so much to the Jury @chively47 @3x3mag Special thanks to the art directors for these amazing projects.
Very proud and grateful! Our Illustration series Epson Calendar Spectacular just won the PLATINUM AWARD and our covers illustration series Margaret Atwood's masterpieces for Corriere Della Sera just won the GOLD AWARD in the Graphis Design 2025 competition, placing us among the world's elite designers as recognized by the esteemed jury. Thank you so much to the esteemed jury @graphis_inc.
Very proud! Our cover arts series for the Margaret Atwood's masterpieces collection published by Corriere Della Sera has been Shortlisted for The World Illustration Awards 2024 Book Covers category! The 200 shortlist have been selected from nearly 5,500 entries from 84 countries following a rigorous and competitive judging process.
Awards and Honors
The Great Gatsby luxury edition
Award and Honors
GOLD Medal SI 66 NYC
Graphis Blog
AI43 SELECTED WINNER
Our Margaret Atwood cover artworks (book series) have been SELECTED to appear in the American Illustration 43 Annual Award Book. We created twenty-one covers artworks for the Margaret Atwood's masterpieces published by Corriere Della Sera. From over 8,000 entries, the AI43 Jury selected only 356 images by a majority vote or better to appear in the book and online galleries representing the best pictures from 2023.
We are very happy and proud to announce you that we have won the GOLD medal by The Society of Illustrators New York, Illustrators 66 Annual Competition, institutional Category, for the "Sport" artworks series created for the 2024 Epson Calendar. Thank you so much to the SI66 jury and our special thanks to Epson and Gianluca Folì, Art Director, for this fantastic project.
Step into the Gatsby-esque splendor crafted by us whose illustrious images in Beehive Books' luxury edition of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald shimmer with glamour and avant-garde flair. Uncover our narrative behind each stroke on https://blog.graphis.com Thank you so much! we are very proud and grateful to Graphis and Beehive Books. They are all Platinum-winning image! Find the deluxe edition here
Balbusso Twins featured on the prestigious Graphis blog
Balbusso Twins Epson Calendar Spectacular 2024 featured on the prestigious Graphis blog. We are very proud to share this news! We talked about our artistic project of the Epson Calendar Spectacular 2024, the choice of the theme, our creative process, our graphic-painting technique, the color, the Epson fine art printing technology, the successful of the project and much more.....
Thank you so much @graphis_inc @epsonitalia
Graphis Inc.
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Article about us
Platinum Winner Graphis Design
3x3 Best of Show Annual 20
Featured Graphis Journal 377
We just got the news that The Great Gatsby Illustration Series are a Platinum Winner in the Graphis Design Award 2024! Thank you so much to the esteemed Jury @graphis_inc and B. Martin Pedersen. We created the design of the slipcase, the cover art and the interior illustrations for the luxury edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published by Beehive Books and part of the Illuminated Editions 2022.
A great emotion to be BEST of SHOW in the prestigious competition 3x3 International Illustration Annual No.20 for the cover images for Margaret Atwood’s masterpieces book collection published by Corriere Della Sera, the first Italian national newspaper. Thank you so much to all 3x3 jury, Charles Hively Margaret Atwood, Il Corriere Della Sera and XXY Studio. Find More here.
Do you know Balbusso Twins Artist Duo? If you want to get to know us, if you already know us but want to know the history of our career, if you want to know how we work, you can read our story inside the acclaimed Graphis Journal #377. A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope inspires your creativity! Here’s a snippet of our QA on Graphis
Theispot
Stock Illustrations Collection
Over 300 images available for immediate use on Theispot.com rights-managed licence. More info here
Latest Project
New Trust 49 Magazine Illos
Cover art, opening and interiors forTrust 49 September 2024
Why technical leaders have the advantage in the AI era. We very proud to have created our first cover art for Trust with our conceptual graphic style. We have been working for Trust magazine for many years! It is a very exciting collaboration! it gives us the opportunity to illustrate innovative and complex topics with maximum creative freedom, giving us the opportunity to create strong and distinctive custom images tailor-made on Baillie Gifford. We are very grateful! Thank you so much to Baillie Gifford . Explore the whole collection, click below:
You can see all our image galleries by categories in our PORTFOLIO
New picture book Book Graciela in the Abyss
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina. Pub date July 1, 2025 Candlewick Press, USA.Very excited to share the cover of our latest picture book Graciela in the Abyss (two covers, a map of the deep and 14 internal illustrations! This extraordinary fantasy story is set in the deepest recesses of the ocean! A sea ghost, a mortal boy, and a dangerous enchanted harpoon . . . "A thrilling, action-packed journey filled with heart, bravery, and ghostly exploits." Kirkus Reviews
Thank Candlewick Press, USA 2025
New Cover art Thirsty Ground
Thirsty Ground by Kimber St. Lawrence, Union Square & co. USA 2025. A young astronaut must learn to survive on post-apocalyptic earth after he is paralyzed on a mission for water. Explore our Portfolio Cover artworks
Union Square & co. USA 2025
New cover art At Last She Stood
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, Harper Collins Greenwillow Book USA Illustration: @balbusso_twins Design: Sylvie Le Floc’h.
"Anna and Elena Balbusso’s illustration and Sylvie Le Floc’h’s cover design for At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied's Survived, and Fought for Freedom absolutely blew me away. It encapsulates every element of Joey’s story, down to the slightest detail. I’m constantly in awe of artists and designers. They think of things that would never occur to me and are able to tell so much through a single design or piece of art. It’s a true talent." By John Schu @MrSchuReads Blog
Explore our Portfolio Cover artworks
Harper Collins Greenwillow Book
New cover art These Deathless Shores
- Award: 2025 SILA Illustration West 63 selected
Very excited about this new cover art created for the adult fantasy fiction These Deathless Shores by Phoebe Low Orbit Books (Hachette Group) USA. Paperback expected publication July 9, 2024. About the Story: Gorgeous and devastating, P. H. Low’s debut fantasy is a richly reimagined tale of Captain Hook’s origin, a story of cruelty, magic, lost innocence, and the indelible power of stories. Please visit our cover artworks gallery
Orbit Books USA
New cover art for Disney books!
Very proud, a great honor to have illustrated the Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood by Robert Beatty cover book published by Disney Hyperion Books, issue October 2024. A big thank you to Phil and Robert Beatty for this amazing project! About the Story: A hurricane changes the course of a river and the life of a lonely girl in this nature-based mystery-adventure by the New York Times best-selling author of the Serafina series and the Willa series. Children's Middle Grade Mystery Action & Adventure.
Awards:
- 2024 3x3 Merit Award Annual 21
- 2025 Illustrators 67 Selected, Society of Illustrators NYC
- 2025 SILA Illustration West 63 selected
Disney Books 2024
New cover art Circus of Mirrors
We created the cover art for Circus of Mirrors by Julie, Penguin Random House UK. BERLIN, 1926: After the death of their parents, sisters Leni and Annette only have each other. Dreaming of better days, but desperate, Leni finds work at a notorious cabaret: the Babylon Circus. Publication date: 12/09/2024 Please visit our cover artworks gallery
Penguin Random House UK
New Cover Art Mary I Queen portrait
New cover artwork for Historical Fiction Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir, HB Headline UK 2024. We combine traditional painting and tools (acrylic, pen, pencil) with digital media.The decorations are all designed by us. We chose not to use virtual paintbrushes, and instead do all our paintings by hand. Please visit our Portrait Gallery
HB Headline Publishing UK
AI Intelligence everywhere
New opening Illustration for Trust Magazine 48 Baillie Gifford & Co investment management firm. Why AI could be the printing press of intelligence. Gutenberg’s printing press unlocked immense value by making it easy to disseminate human knowledge, causing a cascade of beneficial second and third-order effects. AI could be the modern equivalent for intelligence, increasing our understanding and capabilities to a degree and scale that are hard to fathom. Please visit our PORTFOLIO GALLERY
Trust Magazine Baillie Gifford & Co
The AI Will See You Now
New Illustrations by @balbusso_twins for Northwestern magazine winter 2024. The AI Will See You Now
Artificial intelligence can help improve the lives of millions of patients. by Clare Milliken. Less Tress During Pregnancy. Prenatal stress can lead to perinatal depression, preterm birth and low birth weight, among other complications. Thank you so much for this beautiful project @northwesternu. Find out more: Latest Graphic Projects Gallery
Northwestern magazine winter 2024
Epson Calendar Spectacular!
The Epson Calendar 2024 is entitled Spectacular and bears the Balbusso Twins signature! Spectacular month by month: a journey to the rhythm of dance and sport, between colors and geometries.
Award: 2025 Award of Excellence Communication Arts 66
Award: 2025 American Illustration 44 chosen
Award: 2025 SILA Illustration West 63 Winner
Award: 2024 Platinum Award Graphis Design 2025
Award: 2024 3x3 Merit Award Annual
Award: 2023 GOLD MEDAL ILL 66 Society of Illustrators NYC
See more Special Projects/Epson Calendar
Epson Calendar 2024 Spectacular
The New Yorker Magazine Priscilla
On the occasion of the release of the “Priscilla” film we created our Priscilla Presley art for The New Yorker magazine. Article "It’s no knock to call Sofia Coppola’s bio-pic, starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, superficial, because surfaces are Coppola’s subject" By Anthony Lane November 3, 2023 www.newyorker.com
The New Yorker 2023
Margaret Atwood’s masterpieces
We created the cover images of Margaret Atwood’s masterpieces for the exclusive series of 21 novels, essays, short stories and poems that the Corriere della Sera publisher in collaboration with the publisher Ponte alle Grazie has published in 2023. The volumes were on sale with the Corriere Della Sera, the first Italian newspaper, with weekly releases.
Award: 2023 3x3 Best of Show Professional Annual 20
Award: 2024 WIA Shortilisted Artist
Award: 2024 Gold Award Graphis Design 2025
Award: 2024 American Illustration 43 SELECTED Winner
Award: 2024 3x3 Honorable Mention Annual 21
Corriere Della Sera
U Magazine
Cover, opening and interior page illustrations for the University of Utah, U Magazine Summer 2023. Taking on Student Mental Health. As young adults grapple with emotional well-being, resources at the U and beyond are providing a crucial lifeline. BY BENJAMIN GLEISSER
University of Utah
Public Health magazine
Cover and opening illustrations for the Public Health magazine Spring/Summer 2023 of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School. Revolutionary War. A Constellation of Storms. The Threat of Infectious Diseases by Arturo Casadevall Infectious microbes constantly emerge and constantly mutate. To survive, we need extraordinary science and scientists.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School.
1843 The Economist
Illos series for the online magazine of 1843 The Economist. Article: The loneliness of the long-distance abortion-seeker. Driving hundreds of miles for a termination exacts an emotional toll By Charlie McCann. Please visit our PORTFOLIO Gallery
Award: 2023 3x3 Merit Winner Professional Annual 20
1843 The Economist magazine
Children Picture Book
New 2024 korean edition of "Sisters In Science" picture book!
Thank you so much to Kidari Publishing Co. Republic of Korea. 마리 퀴리, 대단한 과학자도 도움이 필요해
안나 발부소 (Anna Balbusso) 엘레나 발부소 (Elena Balbusso)
Children picture book "Sisters in Science. Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska and the atomic power of Sisterhood", written by Linda Elovitz Marshall, It is a compelling biography of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and health care as we know it. Awards:
- 2025 Illustrators 67 Selected, Society of Illustrators NYC
- 2023 Merit Award 3x3 Annual Show No. 20
- 2023 CA's Award of Excellence Illustration Annual 64
- 2023 accepted into the Original Art show 43rd Society of Illustrators
First edition Penguin Random House 2023 USA. French edition Editions Circonflexe: Marie Curie et Bronia Dluska - Le pacte des deux soeurs. Italian edition EDT Giralangolo Edizioni : Sorelle scienziate. Republic of Korea Kidari Publishing Co. 2024.
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All ©Balbusso twins images and content are copyrighted. The artworks above cannot be used for commercial purposes by any third parties without explicit permission from the copyright holder ©2000-2025 Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins. No Machine Learning, AI. You may not use our ©images, our name (as authors), and content of this website (including any caption information, keywords or other metadata associated with content) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes. Violation of this right means an infringement of copyright law and is indictable.