Basford was commissioned by Edinburgh Festival Fringe to illustrate the cover of their 2010 program. In 2010, she created graphics for the iPhone app The New Goodbye. Queensberry-Hunt, a ceramics manufacturer, commissioned her to create hand drawn designs for their tableware collection in 2008. Works īasford's commercial clients include Sony, Nike, Tate Modern and Starbucks. In February 2021 it was announced that she would be hosting the University of Dundee's Annual Public Lecture in Entrepreneurship and that she had been awarded the University's Entrepreneurial Recognition Award. In 2019 she broke the Guinness World Record for the Largest Drawing by an Individual, creating a huge floral drawing over 501 sq m (5,395 sq ft) in 12 hours at her former school, Ellon Academy in Aberdeenshire. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to art and entrepreneurship. In February 2021, she announced on social media that she had separated from her husband the previous year. She was previously married to James Watt, the co-founder of Brewdog, the 'punk' craft beer company and together they had 2 daughters.

Since publishing her first adult colouring book Secret Garden in 2013, she has sold more than 21 million books worldwide, making her a leader of the adult colouring book boom. She believes computer generated graphics can feel 'cold and soulless,' which is why she uses traditional media. Basford lives and works in Aberdeenshire, Scotland where she owns a small studio in a converted farmhouse with large windows that overlook the surrounding fields.

She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) in Dundee in 2005 with a degree in textile Design and a specialization in screen printing. Johanna Basford was born in 1983 in Scotland and grew up on her parents' fish farm in Auchnagatt in Aberdeenshire.

She is known to be a pioneer of the adult colouring book trend. Basford's works can be found in products such as colouring books, wallpaper, beer labels and even tattoos. Her illustrations are hand-drawn, predominantly in black and white, with pencils and pens. Johanna Basford OBE (born 1983) is a Scottish illustrator. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

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