Raquel Costa is a Portuguese award-winning artist, author and illustrator. She has a degree in Fine Arts – Sculpture and a Master’s in Art Education and she has illustrated more than twenty children’s books. In 2024, she debuted into full authorship with the picture book “25 Mulheres”. This book´s illustrations won a Merit Award at the 11th Hiii Illustration International Competition and were juried into the Society of Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibit and Book. This work was also shortlisted as Finalist for the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2025. In 2021, the book “Noa”, written Susana Cardoso Ferreira, was selected for the prestigious White Ravens catalog, by the Munich International Youth Library, shortlisted for the Bologna International Children's Book Fair Illustration Competition and the 7th Hiii Illustration International Competition, and winner of the Bissaya Barreto Children’s Books Award in 2022. Raquel is also co-founder of Little Black Spot Creative Studio, with multidisciplinary work ranging from editorial illustration, concept art and design, to branding and advertising. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and abroad, and runs illustration workshops for both children and adults. She’s currently an invited assistant professor at IPCA College School of Design (Portugal) and is an educator at Adobe in the field of Digital Illustration.

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