Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Environmental Issues

A series of postcard sized images highlighting environmental issues by second year undergrad
Jack Thomas for a recent campaigning brief - can you change the world using only pictures?


Monday, 16 November 2009

Design Festival 09

Many thanks to those visitors from Pendleton and Salford Colleges
who took part in the super-fast Illustration caricature project last week.
As promised I have posted your 30 minute portraits/caricatures -
All the best with your applications!!
Emma B, Emma R, Emma W, Jack, Jenny, Laura, Nicole, Paige,
Phil, Rachel, and Robert not necessarily in that order!
I have also added Alex and Rik's from the first year who joined in!







Thursday, 5 November 2009

Mr Mark Penman has a chance of being published by the mighty DC comics


Comic artist Mark Penman and 2008 UCLAN graduate has been selected to partake in the November competition at Zuda.com.
You can read and vote for Mark’s comic at www.zudacomics.com


Zuda is DC comic's webcomic branch and each month they select 10 comics to go head to head in a vote based competition, the winner earns a place on the site to produce their comic monthly.


The Manchester based freelance illustrator's entry is entitled ‘Peabody and D’Gorath’
Set in the late 1800’s, it follows the adventures of England’s foremost paranormal antiquarians, a reanimated skeleton named Remington Peabody and a demon subservient to the English Monarchy Clancy D’Gorath. Apparently.
Vote for his comic!

Well Done Rob Gill - Images 34




Well done to Year 3 Illustration student Rob Gill for having his work accepted into the New Talent section of the Association of Illustrators Annual - Images 34.


Images is the UK's leading illustration competition, annual, awards show, and touring exhibition organised by the Association of Illustrators it is dedicated to showcasing the very best contemporary illustration published in the UK.

Images is unique in that it is Britain's only jury-selected illustration competition, judged by a highly regarded panel of industry experts, spanning multiple categories.

The annual celebrates illustration excellence and is distributed to a specially targeted list of international commissioners and sold worldwide. 

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Naniiebim aka Louise Ho



Former Preston illustration graduate and current masters student Louise will be signing copies of her latest publication in Manchester later this month!

Thursday, 22 October 2009

we heart Amelia's Magazine


















Amelia's Magazine recently ran an open submission competition to design a two of hearts card for the Shelter Charity exhibition House of cards held at the Haunch of Venison in London

Tania Sneesby 2009 graduate was among those chosen as a part of a patchwork of cards that made up the Amelia's magazine two of hearts.
You can see all the exhibited cards on the shelter site:

http://www.shelterhouseofcards.org.uk/

also look out for the Amelia's Magazine anthology of Illustration issue out now!

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Comica 09




Between 5 and 26 November London is bubbling over with international comics during the Comica Festival's annual three-week season of exhibitions, events, talks, performances, workshops, films, a conference and publishers' fair at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in The Mall and other venues.