As part of Design Week in November Waterford will play it’s part with a call for entries for this excellent themed graphic novel collaboration.

Design Week comes to Waterford City for the 1st time! In the spirit of creativity, our aim is to showcase the incredible talent of contemporary Irish Illustrators. We are calling for entries to contribute to a limited edition printed graphic novel on a specific theme. Visit www.leegrace.com/designweek for further info.

Mail Me Art is back with the 2nd call for submission. Mail Me Art is run by Darren Di Lieto, the founder and co-editor of the illustration news portal the Little Chimp Society. Over the course of a year, the first Mail Me Art project brought together a vast collection of artistic work sent in the form of mail by both professional and amateur artists of all ages from across the world. A wide variety of media were used in an equally wide variety of styles and the work arrived on everything from postcards and envelopes to boxes and pieces of wood.

Contributions included work by internationally-renowned illustrators such as Dan May, Michael Slack, Jon Burgerman, Kristian Olson, Catalina Estrada and Jeff Miracola and in total there were in excess of 600 pieces of mail art submitted to the project.

Mail Me Art culminated in the publication of the book Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World’s Best Illustrators and Designers and the exhibition, held in London during April 2009.

This newly published book is packed with contemporary illustration work from all over the world with artists such as Nate Williams represented. It also features work from IGI  members Brian Gallagher, Chris Haughton, and Stephen Ledwidge. You can order it here.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome three new members to Illustrators Ireland… Mark Ryan, Alan Clarke and Dan Gaynor. Check out their portfolios of great work.

For ten months in 2005 illustrator Steve Doogan travelled around the world keeping sketchbooks of his trip and the people he met. Here’s one of the sketchbooks which he’s finally put together in the video above. See more on his blog.

Candy Collective, in association with Choice Cuts and D.E.A.F presents SweetTalk 37 on Thursday October 22nd 2009 at the Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2. This SweeTalk features the amazing designer Vaughan Oliver and the hottest animator going – David O’Reilly. More info after the jump… (more…)

For this month’s sketchbook, illustrator Brian Fitzgerald sends us his tasty illustrated recipe for making the perfect rice. Read on…

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