About

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Neil Swaab is a book designer/art director and illustrator who specializes in children’s publishing. His work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine, Communication Arts, American Illustration, The Type Directors Club, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He previously taught at Parsons the New School for Design in the Illustration Department for 20 years and has guest lectured and instructed at art schools and colleges like SVA, MICA, CCA, and Syracuse University. Neil lives in the Metro Detroit area.

Selected Clients
  • AbelsonTaylor
  • Abrams
  • Adult Swim
  • Algonquin Books
  • Anyways
  • Audible
  • Augenblick Studios
  • Baboon Animation
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • Bloomsbury
  • Boyds Mills Press
  • Cartoon Network
  • The Collective
  • Comedy Central
  • DDB San Francisco
  • Disney•Hyperion
  • Family Circle
  • Fleishman-Hillard
  • Google
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Hay House
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Inkyard Press
  • Internazionale
  • Irony Point
  • Juniper Park
  • Little, Brown and Company
  • Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
  • Mattel
  • NY Times
  • Penguin
  • Plan Sponsor
  • Random House
  • Rodale Books
  • Scholastic
  • Serino/Coyne
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Six Point Harness
  • SpotCo
  • Two Lions
  • Tu Books
  • Utne Reader
  • Village Voice
  • W.W. Norton & Company