Illustrating and cartooning legend Ronald Searle celebrated his 90th recently. Above is a recent interview with Channel 4 news.

An Exhibition on book illustration by 3rd students of the Waterford Institute of Technology runs from 3rd – 20th March at Waterford Central Library, Lady Lane, Waterford City.

Steven Heller takes an animated look through the evolution of Olympics pictogram systems, although he’s a bit harsh on poor Quatchi the sasquatch. CR Blog previously has a detailed look at the 2012 London system. Here’s a more detailed archive of previous pictogram sytems.

As a contributor to the Picture Book Report project Sam Bosma is busy illustrating The Hobbit. Check out his progress on his blog, including his working process.

For his final year project Philadelphia illustration student Jim Tierney created new covers for the Jules Verne series; featured on Faceout Books.

Above is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 3D illustrated book Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Red Nose Studio. You can find more process images on their blog.

An Post have released their 2010 greetings booklet featuring 2 stamps designed and illustrated by IGI member Roger O’Reilly. (For you philatelists out there, first day covers are now available from An Post’s website.) Roger has put together a Step-by step of the process involved in producing the stamps, first day cover envelope and accompanying cards and stickers…

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Illustrator Oliver Jeffers explains some of the process behind his new book The Heart And The Bottle, due for publication in March.

John Berry, who illustrated Ladybird books for 20 years passed away recently. The Guardian has a nice write up of his life. You can find prints of Ladybird book art here.

More crayons. That’s what the world needs. Solve all our problems. Although it seems it’s happening anyway, as according to ‘Crayola’s Law’, the number of colours brought out doubles every 28 years. So by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons. That’s a lot of colour choices for a 5 year old to wrap their head around.