autopsy lake by john hendrix
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
American illustrator John Hendrix has a very interesting blog post about his recent cover illustration for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association which you can read here.
Archive for the 'Illustration' Category
WILDWOOD illustrations by Carson Ellis
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Nice animated video of illustrations by Carson Ellis for Colin Meloy‘s (lead singer of the Decemberists) book Wildwood.
The Illustrated Alphabet
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Y- Jonathan McHugh
The Small Print invited 26 of the very best illustrators from around the globe to produce 52 original pieces, 1 letter and 1 illustration [based on the letter]. A huge variety of wonderful talents from [A] Oliver Jeffers to [Z] Chris Haughton, make up this newly imagined alphabet which encompass a broad range of disciplines and concepts.
Artists featured are – Alan Clarke, Ben Newman, Bjorn Lie, BRENB, Craig & Karl, Chris Haughton, Richard Hogg, Eduardo Recife, Emily Forgot, Genevieve Gauckler, Jonathan McHugh, Joven Kerekes, Kevin Waldron, Martin Haake, Michael Gillette, Nate Williams, Olaf Hajek, Oliver Jeffers, Rilla Alexander, Serge Seidlitz, Steeve Doogan, Steve Simpson, Tara McPherson, Tomm Moore and Una Gildea
adrian tomine in the city
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Adrian Tomine‘s cover for the latest issue of In The City.
the muppabet
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Leading up to the release of the new Muppet film, illustrator/designer David Vordtriede is posting 26 portraits of Muppet characters that corresponds to each letter of the alphabet. You can view the project so far here.
PJ Lynch | Window Painting
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011I bumped into PJ Lynch outside Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin, looking a little nervous… He’ll be painting inside the shops main display window next week.
Definitely worth checking out!
Inklings
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Once again following on from the success of Adrienne Geoghegan’s last student’s exhibition ‘Picture This’ last April in Temple Bar, we now have a great new location, for ‘Inklings’ show - ‘Little Green Street Gallery’ off Capel St, Dublin 1.
Outstanding new work, plus Irish Distillers drinks promotion and Pichet nibbles on the night!!
Incidently:
The next courses begin in January (Tues and Weds evenings) 6.30 – 9pm, €780 for 24 weeks. For more information, syllabus, to view student work, and testimonialswww.adriennegeoghegan.com
Places are now very limited (3 left on Picture Book course and 6 on Illustration Boot Camp)
Irish picture books shortlisted for the Réics Carló Young Persons Book of the Year Award 2011
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Five books have been shortlisted for this years award and this is the first year that the illustrators are jointly recognised with the author. It’s an Oireachtas na Gaeilge award and the winner will be announced in the National Library on Tuesday the 15th of November 2011.
Five titles shortlisted are:
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culture file interviews helen oxenbury
Monday, October 17th, 2011
The superb Culture File (Mon-Fri at 6.40pm on Lyric fm) sent Regan Hutchins to talk with illustrator Helen Oxenbury about the books she made in collaboration with cult Scottish writer and musician, Ivor Cutler. Listen here. (Also, in an episode from a few weeks ago, they talked to IGI member Steve McCarthy which you can listen to here.)
