Well done us!!! Stu Madden and Andy Thomson selected for Mr Thomas' Art Fair

***UPDATE***
Both Andy and Stu's prints sold in the auction held on Thursday 1st July at Mr Thomas Chop House. A staggering £10000 + was raised on the night. So thanks to all the students who contributed artwork for the Fair and auction.

Andy Thomson and Stu Madden have been shortlisted for a new Illustration Prize called Mr Thomas' Art Fair. Held at Mr Thomas Chop House in Manchester, 160 Illustrations have been selected from illustration courses throughout the north of England.

It is hoped that the Prize and Show will become an annual event.

Preston illustration selected 20 of our best images for the selling show that finishes tonight in a gala auction. Stu and Andy's prints are to be sold in the auction and stand to win a prize as well so good luck for tonight!

Everything in the show is for sale and half the proceeds of all sales will be donated to North West Air Ambulance so follow the title link to the website and have a look at the catalogue and buy some work.

Well done us!!! Rosie Pearson YCN commendation

Well done to Rosie Pearson for her commendation for the McArthur Glen brief for the Young Creative Network Student Awards.

Rosie has really produced some beautifully observed and rich stencilled fashion work for the project.

There is a title link above to her site and you can see more of her work there.

Well done us!!! Kayleigh O Mara - Macmillan Prize commendation

I know its been a while since these prizes were announced but we have not had a lot of time to keep this blog up now! But did you know that Kayleigh O Mara was highly commended in the Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustration 2010 for the second year running. This was for her book " A Big Surprise".

We really should make more of our prize winners!!!
Kayleigh's work was exhibited at Foyles - lets hope it leads to work and recognition! Kayleigh has already had some interest from publishers so fingers crossed.

Well done Kayleigh!

Well done us!!! Chris Arrowsmith D&AD Student Awards

Massive congratulations to Chris Arrowsmith who has won a yellow pencil second prize at this year's D&AD Student Design Awards 2010 in the illustration category for his illustration for the Don't Panic brief entitled "Resist".

Shame we couldn't make it down to the awards! We owe you a pint!

Faber Poetry Hardback covers

Here are some of the beautiful hardback covers for Faber's Poetry books. The print quality is very nice indeed, and the endpapers are equally lovely.
Really retro colour and hand-made printmaking used throughout, I may have to buy them after all?
Illustrations are by Charles Shearer, Michael Kirkman, Jonathan Gibb, Sarah Young, Peter Clayton and Ed Kluz. There is a link here to the Faber blog where the designer Miriam Rosenbloom discusses the design process in more detail: http://www.thethoughtfox.co.uk/?p=2419

Creative Review Illustration Annual 2010

This month's Creative Review has a special illustration feature:
Illustration Annual 2010
With some really fascinating work from the likes of Nigel Peake, ilovedust, Sophia Augusta, Christine Berrie,
Kate Gibb, Noma Bar, Chrissie Macdonald, and many more...

Do grab a copy, buy or nick one whatever but get a look.

There are a series of beautiful faber and faber poetry covers pg 42 and43 which has saved me a fortune in having to buy them all...

And our Preston Illustration's very own Rachel Goslin graduated in ooh when was it again Rachel? Anyway Rachel is featured on pages 48 and 49 for her work for The Twisted Originals comic featured in the Levi's store in Carnaby Street. The comic strip is also animated and Rachel has retrained in animation at St Martins.

Find more of her work at: www.verystrangecreatures.com where you can also find links to some of her animated stuff.

Northern Source at CUBE Manchester

Twenty two illustrators from the recently graduated third year at UCLAN Preston can be seen in an exhibition at CUBE Gallery, Portland Street Manchester all this week! It closes on Saturday at 5pm so scoot!
I think the show looks absolutely fantastic so well done and a big thank you to all those who helped out.
An especially big thank you to Ali Graney who gave up her free time to come and help out, also the lovely people at Cube who were extra helpful ta!
Click on the title link to see the Northern Source blog with some photos of the build up to the show.
More to follow hopefully?