Jon Berkeley

Closeup of a $100 and Ben Franklin looks worried as 3 catepillars are eating the bill.

Portrait of several British actors including Judi Densch and Hugh Laurie.

Magazine cover of penguins conducting business in a tropical jungle

Painting of 18th-century artistocrats listening to a man play an electric guitar.

About Jon

Jon Berkeley is a Dublin-born illustrator and author. He lived and worked in London, Sydney and Hong Kong before settling in Barcelona.
Jon has illustrated over 180 covers for The Economist. His award-winning work has appeared in Newsweek, The New Statesman, Time, FT, Washington Post, and has featured in ad campaigns for Smirnoff, Ted Baker, Vodafone, and many more.

He has illustrated several children's books, and is the author and illustrator of Chopsticks, the story of a mouse who befriends a dragon. He wrote the Wednesday Tales trilogy, which has been published in over a dozen languages, and The Hidden Boy, both from Harper Collins. He was an invited illustrator at Portfolio Night 9 in Dublin, a speaker at the XXVIII Jornades Professionals de il.lustració in Barcelona and a guest author at the Hong Kong Young Readers' festival 2015.

List of Clients

Saatchi and Saatchi, McCann Erickson, Ogilvy, Campbell Grey, TBWA, DDB Needham, BBDO,
Time, The Economist, Newsweek, The Irish Times, Backbone, The South China Morning Post, Wirtschaftswoche, El Tiempo, Asiaweek,
CLSA, American Express, Vodafone, Coca Cola, Digital, Heinz, Carlsberg, Aer Lingus, Guinness, OUP, Scholastic, Volkswagen and many more.