Chris Haughton is a designer and children's book author/illustrator.

He has been a freelance illustrator for 12 years. Chris’s interest in fair trade drew him into working with a number of non-profit projects and in 2007 he was listed in Time Magazine's DESIGN 100 for the design work he’s been doing for People Tree.

Since then Chris has also begun writing children's books, his first book A BIT LOST has been translated into 27 languages and has won awards in 7 countries including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year. OH NO GEORGE! came out in 2012 and won the Junior Magazine Picturebook of the year award. His third book SHH! We have a plan came out in March 2014 and won the AOI award for children's books for 2014. Goodnight Everyone came out in 2016 and ‘Don't Worry, Little Crab' came out in 2019.

Chris's app, HAT MONKEY was released in September 2014.

While living in Nepal in 2010/2011 Chris co-founded Pecha Kucha Kathmandu with Sujan Chitrakar. He co-founded NODE a fair trade social business based in Nepal with Akshay Sthapit in 2012. They had an exhibition and collection for the DESIGN MUSEUM in London in 2012, selling 18 limited edition rugs through the Design Museum Shop.

To ease everyone into 2021, join us to hear Chris talk about his career and process and inspirations. Chris will talk about how he approaches creating characters and stories. There will be a Q&A afterwards.

The event will be held online via ZOOM - the link will be sent via email a few days before the event - please check you have received the link before the day, and check your spam folder if necessary.

All tickets are £12 INCLUSIVE of booking fee - and are non-refundable.

The event will be LIVE - and will not be recorded for viewing afterwards.

Online talk and Q&A with Children's Book author/illustrator Chris Haughton

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