Raoul Deleo
Graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Raoul Deleo began his career as a freelance illustrator in 1993. Besides illustrating he also worked as a graphic designer, animator and art director. Deleo gained fame after winning the Annual Illustration Award of the NIC (the Dutch Association of Illustrators) in 1995. From that moment on his work has been awarded several times by a.o. the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), the Dutch Design Awards and the Dutch art directors Club (ADCN).