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Anna + Elena = Balbusso Twins Artist Duo
Art + Illustration + Design
New Middle Grade, Fantasy illustrated Book
Graciela in The Abyss
Very excited to share the cover of our latest picture book Graciela in the Abyss (two covers, a map of the deep and 14 internal illustrations! This extraordinary fantasy story is set in the deepest recesses of the ocean! A sea ghost, a mortal boy, and a dangerous enchanted harpoon . . .
Pub date July 1, 2025 Candlewick Press, USA
Exhibition April-July 2025
The Art of Folio exhibit at The Society of Illustrators NY
Very proud to be part (with our artworks) of The Art of Folio! The Folio Society’s first-ever major exhibition, celebrating nearly 80 years of exceptional book art.
This landmark show features over 90 artists, and celebrates the wonders of book illustration in all its diversity of form & genre. We illustrated 10 books for The Folio Society! In this special show you can see our pieces from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!
The Art of Folio
At The Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY 10065
New Cover Art
Thirsty Ground
Very excited about this new cover art created for Thirsty Ground by Kimber St. Lawrence , Union Square & co. USA 2025. A young astronaut must learn to survive on post-apocalyptic earth after he is paralyzed on a mission for water. Explore our Portfolio Cover artworks
LATEST NEWS
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Award of Excellence Communication Arts 2025
SILA Illustration West 67
10 Award Winning Images
PLATINUM and GOLD Graphis 2025
Very proud and grateful! Our Illustration series Epson Calendar Spectacular just won the PLATINUM AWARD and our covers illustration series Margaret Atwood's masterpieces for Corriere Della Sera just won the GOLD AWARD in the Graphis Design 2025 competition, placing us among the world's elite designers as recognized by the esteemed jury.
We are very happy and proud! #10 Artworks have been selected into Illustration West 67 exhibit 2025! Big thank you to the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles jury and to all the art directors and clients who worked with us on these amazing projects. BRONZE AWARD: Menewood cover art. HONORABLE MENTION; Mary I Queen of Sorrows cover art.
Epson Calendar Award of Excellence Communication Arts 2025
We are very happy and proud! Our five pieces for the Epson calendar 2024 Spectacular have been selected by the 2025 jury to appear in Illustration Annual 66 of Communication Arts @communicationarts institutional series. Of the 2,867 entries to the 66th Illustration Annual, only 110 were accepted.
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Article about us
Platinum Winner
Graphis Design Award 2024
3x3 Best of Show Annual 20
Featured Graphis Journal 377
A great emotion to be BEST of SHOW in the prestigious competition 3x3 International Illustration Annual No.20 for the cover images for Margaret Atwood’s masterpieces book collection published by Corriere Della Sera, the first Italian national newspaper. Thank you so much to all 3x3 jury, Charles Hively Margaret Atwood, Il Corriere Della Sera and XXY Studio. Find More here.
Do you know Balbusso Twins Artist Duo? If you want to get to know us, if you already know us but want to know the history of our career, if you want to know how we work, you can read our story inside the acclaimed Graphis Journal #377. A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope inspires your creativity! Here’s a snippet of our QA on Graphis
We just got the news that The Great Gatsby Illustration Series are a Platinum Winner in the Graphis Design Award 2024! Thank you so much to the esteemed Jury @graphis_inc and B. Martin Pedersen. We created the design of the slipcase, the cover art and the interior illustrations for the luxury edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published by Beehive Books and part of the Illuminated Editions 2022.
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All ©Balbusso twins images and content are copyrighted. The artworks above cannot be used for commercial purposes by any third parties without explicit permission from the copyright holder ©2000-2025 Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins. No Machine Learning, AI. You may not use our ©images, our name (as authors), and content of this website (including any caption information, keywords or other metadata associated with content) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes. Violation of this right means an infringement of copyright law and is indictable.