info@mikellis.ca
Mike Ellis is an illustrator, art director, and game designer
based in Toronto. For over a decade, he has been creating illustration and design work for publications and brands around the world.If you have a project or collaboration in mind, feel free to get in touch!
clients
New York Times, The New Yorker, Buck, Airbnb, Google, Barron’s, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Penguin Random House, GQ, Wired, NBC News, Fast Company, The Walrus, Washington Post, Worth, Geico, Facebook, Dropbox, Herman Miller, PayPal, Zipcar, Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Reader's Digestawards
ADC ONE SHOW Merit Winner 2025ADC ONE SHOW Merit Winner 2023
CODAawards 2017 Merit Winner
National Magazine Awards Honourable Mentions 2014, 2016
Creative Quarterly 32, 37
American Illustration 30 (Selected)
American Illustration 31, 33, 34 (Chosen)
Communication Arts Illustration Annual 52
CMYK Top 100 New Creatives
misc
︎ I sometimes Art Direct/Design at Buck and Humanaut︎ I’ve taught illustration at OCAD University
︎ I design fun games over at Best Frenemies
︎ On my time off you’ll find me cheering on the Blue Jays, cycling around the city or probably off-grid somewhere in the woods; camping, fishing, and pretending emails don’t exist.
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What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is yours.
Please don’t use my work without permission.