Alex Foster – Designer

Alex is an illustrator and mapmaker based in a seaside home studio in Margate, UK. After a foundation year at UCA Canterbury, he earned a first-class degree in illustration from Middlesex University. He uses a layered, hand drawn approach across book illustration, map design, art prints, and commercial design.

Alex works extensively in publishing, creating artwork for maps, children’s books, and adult novels. His publishing work includes illustrating official maps for the Roald Dahl Literary Estate and working with hundreds of clients like Penguin Random House, Google, Arcturus Publishing, major newspapers, American Express, Airbnb, Expedia, Air Canada and Anorak Magazine.

In 2015, Alex won a World Illustration Award for his Totally Thames poster. His custom house portrait service has drawn over 450 homes and been featured on national TV and international press. In 2024, while making an artwork he misread "2002 VE" as "ZOOZVE", went viral and led, with NASA, to Radiolab’s Latif Nasser to help officially rename a quasi-moon of Venus to ZOOZVE.