Allen Crawford

Allen Crawford is an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer. He and his wife Susan founded the design and illustration studio Plankton Art Co. in 1996. Their studio's most notable project to date is the collection of 400 species identification illustrations that are on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York.

Allen wrote, illustrated, and designed The Affected Provincial's Companion (Bloomsbury 2006), which was optioned for film four times by Johnny Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil.

His second book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself (Tin House 2014), is an illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's epic poem. The entire 256-page book was written by hand. It won numerous awards, including a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.

Allen's most recent book, A Wild Promise (Tin House 2023) is an illustrated celebration of the Endangered Species Act. The book contains about 100 full-color illustrations.