Letters from the Witch: Cackle Crackle

Annie Atkins is a graphic designer and prop maker for film and television. Her first job after graduating was on the third season of The Tudors, creating the calligraphy for Henry the Eight’s death warrants (among other things). She is known for her work with Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel, which won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 87th Academy Awards. Since then, she has worked again with Wes Anderson on Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. Atkins’s first book, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps was published in 2020 by Phaidon. Atkins lives in Dublin, Ireland, where she teaches workshops out of her studio. Taryn Knight is an illustrator working in children’s literature from her home in the windswept fields of Colorado, with over 360,000 followers on Instagram. She began her professional career as a digital designer, dabbling in digital illustration until finally returning to paint and paper. Since then, she’s made her children’s book illustration debut in 2020 with Embassy of the Dead (Walker US) and manages an online shop. Knight is inspired by nature and life’s simple joys, aiming to create a sense of wildness and childish freedom. She works from her small studio at home, where her desk is littered with paint tubes, mismatched mugs, treasures collected on walks, and half-drunk cups of tea.