SHU-Illustration

Thursday, 28 July 2011

THE COLLECTABLES SUMMER SHOW

Recent graduates Sean Gee and Caitlin Totten invite you to their summer show.

‘Collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, and absurdity, a fate. Those who do it, must do it - No matter what the cost’

The Work on display shows two individuals perspectives of the lighter side of having a collectable obsession. They explore common items that people collect for years and the impact it can have if that person became obsessed with it.

The exhibition is running from the 22nd August - 7th September in the Furnival Gallery Balcony Space (upstairs).
The opening night will be on the 22nd August with drinks and prints thrown in for free :)

Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
Furnival Building
Sheffield Hallam University
153 Arundel Street
Sheffield
S1 2NU

If you want or need anymore information about this exhibition contact Me or Caitlin on -

contact@seangee.co.uk
caitlin_totten@hotmail.com

Saturday, 23 July 2011

UNLEASHED / BEST IN NORTH ILLUSTRATION AWARDS

Well done to eveyone involved with the Unleashed exhibition and awards.
The exhibition has work from Hallam students Rob Griffiths, Tom Ball,
James Smart, Sean Gee, Tom Buswell, Tom Poynter, Kirsty Wilkinson,
James Smart and Rebecca Roberts. The exhibition looks fantastic and
is well worth a visit if you are in Manchester.

Mr Thomas’s Chop House
52 Cross Street
Manchester
M2 7AR
0161 832 2245

Tom Poynter and Sean Gee

We also had 4 highly commended nominations which is excellent,
Rebecca, Tom Ball, Tom Buswell and Rob Griffiths were all invited
to an awards ceremony and watched as their work was auctioned
each image raised over £400.00.

The evening rasied over £12,000.00 for charity.

Rebecca Robberts far right.

Tom Buswell far left, Tom Ball and Rob Griffiths far right.

Well done to everyone involved

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Lost and Found art blog

Interesting blog provides an insight into how much drawing production went into
producing the animated version of Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found. Incredible
amount of detail and planning.

http://lostandfoundartblog.squarespace.com/http://lostandfoundartblog.squarespace.com/

This is link was provided via motion studio studio AKA.

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

E4 sting competition

E4 in association with Creative Review is running a competition to produce 10 second animated stings. This could be a great way for to get work noticed. Further information here:

http://www.e4.com/skins/doitandwin/100eba297679504b733671e9e8abd9a0/entry-terms.e4

Friday, 8 April 2011

SHU-Illustration Poster Archive

Many of you are spending time in the print room at the moment making lovely prints. We would like to start an archive of work produced on the course so can I please ask that you add 1 extra print to your run and drop them off with myself or Frazer. As the work starts to come in I would also like to preview on the SHU Illustration blog.

Thank you!

Image: Mar Benabarre

Image: Sean Gee

Image: Tom Poynter

This American Life.

For a few years I've been listening to an American radio station called 'This American Life'. It's a great resource for any Illustrator who needs a narrative to work with, themes are picked on a weekly basis and listeners contribute their stories many of which are true:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

St Judes Gallery

A great gallery with great British designers and makers: http://www.stjudesprints.co.uk/

Image: Johnny Hannah

Image: Christopher Brown

Friday, 1 April 2011

Penguin Book Competition - Deadline looming.

Anyone who has been or is doing the Penguin Book competition the deadline is quickly approaching.

1. DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
The closing date for entries is 5 p.m. on Friday 15 April 2011.
This site will accept entries from Monday 17 January 2011.

Entries must supplied in the following format:

PDF
300ppi
CMYK
5mm bleed
Ideally colour managed to ISO Coated 39 or ISO Uncoated 29 (optional)
Trim and crop marks to be included

Please also make sure you add all the cover copy before sending (available from the competition site and in brief) those with missing information will not be judged.