Maisy Summer

Elsie Plant Hatting Hero

Maisy Summer is an Illustrator, Animator, Educator working closely with clients big and small to help them communicate their stories personally and thoughtfully often around themes of heritage, community and culture. Maisy has worked widely within branding, publishing, animation, and editorial, as well as designing large-scale murals and narrative wallpapers.

Within Maisy’s toolkit is a mix of techniques such as; handcrafted paper cutting and drawing with scissors, bold mark-making with pastels, paints and pencils, to carefully intertwining digital drawing programs. Clients include: Google Arts and Culture, Kew Gardens, V&A, Adobe, Hatworks Hat Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery. Maisy's projects have been shortlisted in the V&A Illustration Awards, AOI World Illustration Awards & STACK Magazine Awards. She also is the founder of international creative hub Small Fry, which hosts creative events, projects, talks & workshops.