Robert Shadbolt started illustrating for Vogue magazine while still a student at the Royal College of Art. Since then he has sustained a diverse and varied career working for clients in editorial, advertising, design, the web, publishing, textiles and ceramics. He now lives and works in Salford, combining his illustration practice alongside running the Illustration course at The University of Salford.

illustration clients:
Editorial
The Sunday Times, The Saturday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Management Today,
The Guardian, The New Yorker, Readers Digest, Vogue, BBC Gardener's World, You Magazine, Red, Glamour, Elle, Just Seventeen, The Radio Times, Tatler, Men’s Health, Madam Figaro, ES Magazine.

Design
Pentagram, Wolff Olin’s, Coley Porter Bell, CDT, RSA, Bloomingdales, Harrods, Boots, Whittards,
Tricket and Webb.

Advertising
McCann Erickson, South African Airlines, The COI, Abbott Mead Vickers, TBWA, BMP.

Publishing
Harper Collins, Faber & Faber, Penguin Books, Hodder & Stoughton. 

The Art Directors Club 68th Annual Exhibition 1989 Merit Award
"89 Shopping Bag" for Bloomingdale's

American Institute of Graphic Arts
Certificate of Excellence
The Best in Photography and Illustration 1984-89