I’m a France-based digital illustrator open for new projects. I was longlisted for 2024 World Illustration Awards and a selected winner of the 2024 American Illustration Awards.

I’m proudly represented by Illo Agency.

But also…

My name is Driss Chaoui

I’m a colour and lettering enthusiast living in Toulouse, France with a lovely cat friend. I worked with editorial, book cover, children books and podcast clients, adding vibrancy and fun to their projects.
You might spot me haunting my local library, or cooking briwat for my loved ones.

Oh what does Kalakal means? Absolutely nothing, this is a sound I used to babble as a toddler and soon became a nickname in my family. It also became my artist name later in life.

Editorial: Vine Pair / Glug / Happy Newspaper / Popshot / Hyphen Online / Shado / Skinny / The Mortar

Commercial: Agence Influactive / Action Santé / Storything / Yurcom

Book Covers and Publishing: Reedsy / Podium Publishing / Lake Colouring

Packaging: Wine 52 / Queer Brewing

Non-profit: Believers Bailout (BBO) / Hidayah / Privacy International / Lung YCCM / Privacy International / Women on Web

World Illustration Awards (2024 longlisted)

American Illustration Awards (2024 selected winner)

Brightness Awards (2020 longlist)

Lake Colouring (artist spotlight)

shado – pick of the week (The individuals changing the world around them)

3×3 magazine (Issue 36)

Association of Illustrators (2023 AOI mentee)

shado mag (artist spotlight)

Counterpoint (artist spotlight)

Mipsterz’s ALHAMDU, Muslim Futurism (exposition)

Cagibi Zine (artist spotlight)