Sheffield Hallam / Working Drawings in Design Week

Working Drawings conference and exhibition catches the interest of Design Week feature journalist Laura Snoad . Click image to enlarge.

Working Drawings conference and exhibition

This is a fantastic opportunity both myself and Frazer expect all Illustration students to attend.

Fantastic competition

Getting inside The Outsider: House of Illustration and The Folio Society’s inaugural book illustration competition

We are delighted to be working with The Folio Society on this inaugural competition and have chosen The Outsider by Albert Camus as the book to be illustrated. We hope this will provide a fascinating challenge to all illustrators.

The competition is open to anyone over 18 who is not a Folio Society published illustrator. The deadline is 10 January 2011.

More info here

http://competitions.houseofillustration.org.uk/folio2010/how-to-enter/

The Visual Telling of Stories

A fantastic resource set up by Dr Chris Mullen whilst teaching on the Sequential Design
MA at Brighton.

Well worth a look....enjoy

http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm

OP ED at 40

A great little film, interviews with New York Times art directors past and
present discussing commissioning illustrators.

Great Printers and Picture-Makers

I've mentioned in tutorials this week on a couple of occasions the works of Edward
Bawden and Robert Tavener both make excellent images. Information about both artists
is available in the university library.

 Edward Bawden

Robert Tavener

Milton Glaser discusses the importance of drawing

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.

Brad Holland

Great interview with Illustration great Brad Holland available here:

http://www.varoom-mag.com/webonly/index.html

David Shrigley says Save the Arts!

'An important message about the arts' - an animated video by artist David Shrigley from Save The Arts on Vimeo.

Great example of character design and motion working together:

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

James Jarvis is a contemporary illustrator.
Richard Kenworthy is a motion designer / http://www.shynola.com/

"I had become interested in the idea of characters that were less referential and more iconic and abstract. I particularly wanted to do something with a potato-headed stick-man that I had been drawing at that time.

The film was inspired by certain personal experiences in running a favourite run over Blanchland moor in Northumberland, being attacked by a crow in Singapore and also by the transcendent, almost psychedelic experience of the simple act of running.
Rather than a marketing project inititated by Nike, the film was something proposed and produced by myself, and as such I hope represents a much more equal collaboration with a brand."

James Jarvis

How to Create a Portfolio and Get Hired / Fig Taylor

Those who attended the Leeds Illustration conference last year and managed to stay for the afternoon will recall the very memorable talk given by AOI folio advisor Fig Taylor.

Fig now has a book available 'How to Create a Portfolio and Get Hired.'  This is a useful resource for final year students and provides insightful information based on sound experience from professionals within the design industries.

Chapters cover a variety of relevant markets such as publishing, TV and games design - many of which should be considered by young designers when starting out on a freelance career -and is written in a no-nonsense style that allows the reader to gain a good insight into what is required before approaching potential clients within a specified sector.

A good range of pictorial examples that are carefully selected help further illustrate fundamental aspects of organising and presenting work examples without placing emphasis on the transient subject of style; as the author explains “the world is full of coffee-table tomes that wax lyrical about the stylishness of contemporary design and illustration; this is first and foremost, a book that’s concerned with content”.


I have a copy in the office should anyone want a look.

            

AOI awards for recent Hallam graduates!

Frazer and myself attended the opening of the AOI Images 2010 exhibition at LCC, this was a particularly good year as two recent Hallam graduates James Power and Shunning Qian picked up
silver and bronze awards in the new talent section!

Image courtesy of AOI Images 2010

Offset 2009.

Oliver Jeffers - OFFSET 2009 from OFFSET on Vimeo.

Interesting insights and opinions from Artists / Illustrators Oliver
Jeffers,David Shrigley, Dave Mckean and Chris Houghton (AOI 2010 winner).

Picasso Sketchbook

Produced in 1945 this example of Picasso's sketchbook still retains its playfulness today and is a particular favorite of mine.