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"I left New York, fully intending to come back, but as much as I
miss New York, London is where I want to live. One of the things I love
about London is that although I live quite close to the centre, I wake
to bird song and work next to a window that looks out to the neighbourhood
cat traffic with visiting foxes and squirrels."
In the 1980's
and 90's Dana worked closely with much loved Hunkydory Designs creating
dozens of pop-up greetings cards after studying the collections in the
Victoria & Albert and British Museums. Inspired by old tin toys, she
also created little shaped tin boxes; boxes that won awards and influenced
a whole market. Her love affair with little tins continues and she still
designs tin boxes for Elite Gift Boxes.
In
1989, Marcantonio Foods telephoned Dana with a surprising request. When
Mr. Marcantonio read Dana's book Midnight Teddies to his young
children, he saw the bear he had imagined for his new ice cream wafers.
A telephone call, a meeting to discuss baking and batter flow and quite
a lot of designing later, Dana and Marcantonio Foods created the first
Little Bear Wafers-teddy bear shaped ice cream wafers. With Marcantonio
Foods, Dana went on to design Little Bear wafer cups, and most recently
Little Bear Teddy Top Cones, teddy bear shaped ice cream cones!
Returning to her early pursuit of photography, Dana has expanded that interest to a third dimension with her work in stereography as well as photography for Omnibus Theatre and Arts Centre (2014-2018) photographing performances of artists such as Judi Dench (2017), Prunella Scales with Timothy West (2015), and Bill Nighy (2018) . . .
and photography for The Clapham Society (2015-present).
In a happy blend of her interests in architecture and photography, Dana photographed dozens of London buildings, including the cover image, for the book The I'Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors by Peter Jefferson Smith, published by Brown Dog Books, 2019.
Dana's childhood love of reading continues and writing and illustrating books remains a
great favourite---all sort of books---pop-up books for Campbell Books, baby board books and picture books for Walker Books, Piccadilly Press and Oxford University Press.
Her work has been widely exhibited, from the Victoria & Albert Museum and Somerset House to the London Design Centre, and more recently The
Illustration Cupboard, The Anna-Mei Chadwick Gallery, and Marwell Zoo. Dana's work was featured in the exhibition Tins! Tins! Tins!, Barnsley Museums, Yorkshire 2019.
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AWARDS AND MEDIA |
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Awards
Best in Metal 1988, MPMA Gold Award, Hunkydory Cottage tins
Best in Metal 1991, MPMA Gold Award, Hunkydory Sweet Dreams tins
Red House Childrens
Book Award 2003, short-list;
Books for Younger
Children, Federation
of Childrens
Book Groups, To Mum With Love
Platinum Award Winner 2003, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Books
Preschool, A Present for Mom
A Bank Street College Best Childrens Book of the Year 2004,
A Present for Mom
Photographic Competition 2010, International Fund for Animal Welfare, runner up, “Fox Cubs at Home”
British Stereoscopic Society Competitions
2012 - two competition photographs chosen as “Editor’s choice”, by editor Bill Hibbert for
The Stereoscopic Journal of 3D Imaging. “Girl in a Pavilion” and “Venice, Rialto Bridge”
(#12 & #20 in photo gallery)
2015 - “Venice as Gondolas Pass” chosen 1st in Buildings category of competition (#23 in photo gallery)
2018 - selected as competition Judge
2019 - “Children Play Inside the Hive, Kew Gardens,” Commended
2020 - selected as competition Judges’ Chairman
2022 - Winner of the Digital Award; Common Theme Awarded for "Sarah Everard Remembered"
Radio
Owl and the Pussy Cat Take Five, BBC WorldService, interview with producer Molly
Price-Owen, 9 December 1996.
T.V.
Fox
News, Documentary shown in USA about American expatriates living
in England, interviewed as an
illustrator working in London, taped in my studio with presenter
Catharine Harwich, producer Katrina
Balmforth, 23 October 1997.
BBC,
Childrens
BBC Tweenies episode
141: Story Time
featured Somethings
Coming, BBC1, August 2000.
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FOUR
LITTLE TEDDIES BOARD BOOKS: Picnic, Party, Seaside, Playground
UK, Walker Books (published
for Mothercare)
1987
USA, Warner Books |
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MIDNIGHT
TEDDIES
UK,
Walker Books 1989
France, Librairie Gründ
USA, Discovery Toys Inc.
Germany, Lentz Verlag 1990
Paperback edition 1992
Miniature
edition 1993 as part
of
Bear
Hugs, 2000
for Marcantonio promotion
Included
in
The
Walker Book
of Bear Stores
(UK)
1995
The
Candlewick
Book of Bear Stories (USA)
The
Walker Picture
Book Library (UK)
1999
My
Little Bear
Library (Walker
Books for The
Book People)
1999
Also
published as
Little
Book Card,
Walker Books 1996
Japan, Holp
Shuppan Publishers 1994 illustrations
published as calendars
and playing cards.
Miniature
ed. 2004,
Little
Favourites-Classic
Picture Books
in Miniature Walker
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BALLERINA
BEAR |
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UK,
Campbell Books 1993
USA, Scholastic Inc.
Germany, Coppenrath Verlag
Australia,
Lothian Publishing Co.
France, Librairie Gründ 1995
Japan, Tuttle-Mori Agency 1995
Chosen for the Good
Book Guide To Children's
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CINDERELLA
CAT |
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UK, Campbell Books 1994
USA, Scholastic Inc.
Germany, Coppenrath Verlag
Australia, Lothian Publishing Co.
France, Librairie Gründ 1995
Japan, Tuttle-Mori Agency |
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SOMETHING'S
COMING Richard
Edwards, author |
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UK, Walker Books 1995 (for Sainsbury's)
USA, Candlewick Press
Included in Time
For A Story
Walker Books 2000
Walker
Bedtime Book Walker
Books 2001
Featured on CHILDREN'S BBC TV; Tweenies, Episode 141, August
2000 |
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BALLERINA
BEAR PRESS-OUT BOOK
CINDERELLA CAT PRESS-OUT BOOK |
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UK, Campbell Books 1995 |
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THE
OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT Edward
Lear, author |
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UK, Walker Books (for Sainsbury's)
1996
USA, Shaw's
Walker Books export edition |
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KITTY
KIT Richard
Edwards, author |
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UK, Oxford University Press 1998
Oxford University Press Teachers' Edition (large format 330mm x 430mm) |
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RAGGYBEAR'S
RESCUE Richard
Edwards, author |
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UK, Walker Books (for
Early Learning Centre) 1999 |
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CATS,
CATS, AND MORE CATS |
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UK, Piccadilly Press 2000
Australia, Koala Books
USA, Barron's Books |
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TO
MUM WITH LOVE Viv
French, author |
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UK & Australia, Walker Books
2002
France, Editions Gründ
Germany, Ars Edition
Holland, Van Buuren Kinderboeken
Finland, Oy SatusiivetSagovingar AB
Denmark, Bogklubben Rasmus
Sweden, Sjostrands Forlag AB
Irish-Gaelic, An Gum
USA & Canada, Candlewick Press
Oppenheim
Toy Portfolio Platinum
Award winner 2003,
Preschool category
The Federation
of Children's Book Groups; short-listed
for The Red House Children's
Book Award,
Books
for Younger Children category
TABBY
THE WILD CAT
UK,Piccadilly
Press 2003
Australia, Koala
Books
South
Korea, Areah Publishers 2005
Indonesia, "Tabby si Kucing Liar", Penerbit Erlangga 2010
I
LOVE YOU, GRANDPA Viv
French, author
UK & Australia,Walker
Books 2004
USA, Candlewick
Press
France, "Un
Week-end avec Grand-Père", Gründ
Holland, "Je
bent de liefste opa", Van
Buuren Kinderboeken
A PRESENT
FOR FATHER CHRISTMAS
UK, Walker
Books 2008
USA, "A
Present for Santa Claus",
Candlewick Press
France, "Le
Cadeau du Père
Noël", Éditions
Grűnd
Spain, Castilian: "Un regalo
para Papá Noel", timunmas
Catalan:"Un
regal per al pare Noel", timunmas
Portugal, "Um Presente para
o Pai Natal", Publicações
Dom Quixote
Italy, "Un regalo per Babbo
Natale", Istituto Geografico
De Agostinti
Poland, "Prezent dla Świętego
Mikołaja" Firma
Księgarska
Japan, Shufunotomo
Co. Ltd.
Greece, Livanis
PublishingOrganization
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