Johanna Basford graduated from Textile Design in 2005.
She is a designer who specialises in finely detailed monochrome pen and ink illustrations. Her clients have included: The Crafts Council at the Victoria and Albert Museum, DKNY, The BBC, Channel 4, H&M, The Scottish Parliament, Dazed and Confused, Creative Review, Heals, Hallmark, Queensberry Hunt, Hendricks Gin, Tate Modern, The Body Shop and Johnson & Johnson.
She was commissioned to design the cover of the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.