Anita Mangan is a much sought after and celebrated Graphic Designer and Illustrator. She has designed over 90 books since graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Camberwell Art College (UAL) in 2003. The first book she designed, Leon - Naturally Fast Food won a British Book Design and Production Award. 

 

Her quirky and colourful style has gained her a reputation both here and abroad. She has designed books for Leon Restaurants, Comptoir Libanais, Cabana, Gizzi Erskine, Ella Risbridger, Allegra McEvedy, Dawn O’Porter, Kelis, Hang Fire Smokehouse, to name but a few as well as illustrating the best selling ‘Be a Unicorn” and subsequent 8 books in the series. 

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In September 2017, her first book Bingo: The Illustrated Guide to Bingo Lingo (Quadrille) was published to critical acclaim.  In 2021, her next book The Chinese Zodiac: A Seriously Silly Guide (Pavilion) came out. In the same year, her collaboration with her brother, Stephen Mangan, began, illustrating best selling children’s books: Escape the Rooms (Scholastic, 2021), The Fart that Changed the World (Scholastic, 2022), The Unlikely Rise of Harry Sponge (Scholastic, 2023), The Great Reindeer Rescue (Scholastic, 2023) and The Day I Fell Down The Toilet (Scholastic, 2024). They are involved in World Book Day 2025, releasing The Fart That Broke World Book Day as a £1 book and are currently working on another book that will come out in Spring 2025.

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In April 2023, she took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, Celebrity Special and in the summer appeared twice on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside her brother, Stephen Mangan. They returned for 4 more episodes in 2024. She has been interviewed on TV on BBC The One Show, Lorraine, Steph’s Packed Lunch and Good Morning Britain and on radio on BBC Radio 2 (Steve Wright and Michael Ball), Radio Wales, Virgin Radio with Graham Norton and RTE.

 

She has appeared alongside Stephen at Hay Festival three times, Barnes, Brighton and Bath Children’s Literary Festivals, to packed out audiences and at Henley Literary Festival, Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival, Goodwoof and Victorious Festivals for solo shows. 

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