Elliot Kreloff’s career as an award-winning designer and illustrator of children’s books began as an Art & Writing Award recipient in 1967. 

Elliot Kreloff, 1967

Since then, Kreloff has worked as an art director with Scholastic Inc., Disney Publishing Worldwide, and as an art educator at Parsons School of Design. Drawn to art ever since he can remember, Elliot grew up attending art classes at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday mornings and attending the High School of Music and Art. As a college student, he studied design and illustration at The Cooper Union in NYC, and fell in love with typography and design.

After graduating, Kreloff was hired to illustrate a magazine cover for a kids’ magazine called Science World. Dedicating his career to making art for kids, Kreloff’s work has spanned mediums such as websites, clothing, toys, and books. In the early ’90s, he designed the first edition of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary, which is still in print with the same interior design they created over 20 years ago. 

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