Drawers is a co-production between the IGI and the people at South Studios – a small visual arts business complex based in Dublin. The show features 14 IGI members and the rest are designers, photographers, architects and a fashion stylist next 26th March.
More info in www.illustratorsireland.com
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.
Here’s some recent work created by members of Illustrators Ireland (IGI). Each member has submitted one of their favourite illustrations from the previous month, either commissioned or personal. Follow the link below to see all this month’s entries.
Dublin based illustrator and IGI member Brian Coldrick is next up on The Comic Cast’s exhaustive (but never exhausting) trek through the world of Irish comics and illustration. Go download the podcast here.
For more on the Irish comics and illustration ’scene’ you can do worse than listening to previous interviews with Tomm Moore (director of Oscar nominated The Secret Of Kells), Nick Roche (artist on Transformers comic) and Gerry Hunt (creator of historical Graphic Novel – Blood Upon The Rose) and and many more besides.
I’m blatantly cheating again this week. The Guardian featured Chris Wormell’s work yesterday and I, by coincidence, read his book One Smart Fish last week. That is nearly the sum total of what I know about Chris’ work – I loved the premise (fish finding their feet) and the amazing colour, crowds and landscapes in One Smart Fish.
The Guardian, again this week, makes for an excellent introduction:
The pastel drawings are immensely pleasing, but the real charm lies in the way that the protagonists, like all small children, are oblivious to the chaos they cause. – Lyn Gardner talking about Off to the Fair.
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I’m no expert and open to any/all recommendations – I’d love to find books that I’ve never come across – so if you have a suggestion, send it on.
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.
I am not sure how to explain the idea behind this showcase of IGI (Illustrators Guild of Ireland) members talent. Let’s just say we love drawing all kinds of people… no matter what breed.
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Creative Review recently announced that they will be launching an Illustration Annual in July which follows on from their successful run of Photography Annuals. They are currently open to submissions and deadline is March 21st. Skip over to their website for more details.
This week was the easiest yet – I was going to talk Raymond Briggs. But the Guardian have done all the reading for me with an amazing retrospective of Michael Foreman’s work – from his first book, The General, through some of his better (and lesser) known titles – Foreman has managed to create 300 titles for both adults and children.
Outside of The General and a few (2) other picturebooks – I’m not too familiar with Foreman’s work.
The Guardian feature makes for an excellent introduction:
Pictures offer a way of looking at and interpreting the text from a different angle. What you do is provide an image that makes the book work better rather than necessarily illuminating the text. – Michael Foreman
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I’m no expert and open to any/all recommendations – I’d love to find books that I’ve never come across – so if you have a suggestion, send it on.
