The SAA are very pleased to be supporting the World Illustration Awards by sponsoring The SAA Agents Award for New Talent.
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Daniela Terrazzini was asked to create these beautiful repeat patterns for the packaging of Marks and Spencer’s new range of conserves. Here are some of the lovely range out now! Daniela Terrazzini is represented by The Artworks
We are thrilled to be representing Raid 71 (aka Chris Thornley), an artist with a wealth of design experience behind him, whom after a typography degree has chosen to take the illustrative path. Both experimental and playful, exhibiting worldwide and with a number of awards under his belt, Raid 71 has worked for Levi, Mercury Records, Lego and many more high profile clients.
His more recent fame came with the death of Steve Jobs, and an image Chris created back in May this year. He says "an editorial I did sometime ago has been involved in an International news story relating to the death of Steve Jobs; (I'm) getting a ton of requests for newspapers to talk about it." It turns out a student in Hong Kong created an almost identical 'tribute logo', which has been 'creating a buzz in cyberspace'. The student admits his is not the original but neither a rip off. Read more here from Reuters and also from Macworld.
Raid 71 is represented by Illustration Ltd
Frances Castle has set up her own record label, Clay Pipe Music. She makes music as well as collaborating with other musicians and has combined this interest with her passion for design. Each release comes with a beautifully crafted cover and book, designed and hand printed by Frances herself, making every limited edition CD unique and collectable.
We've put together a selection of Frances' illustrations from her forthcoming CD inspired by Tyneham, the deserted 'ghost' village in Dorset that was taken over by the army in World War 2.
Frances Castle is represented by Arena
Multi talented artist and designer Nod Young recently completed a series for an Italian Design magazine, where he worked on a special project celebrating Beijing Design Week 2011.
The illustrations are type based which is Nod’s great passion. Nod Young is represented by Phosphor Art
Madamesange aka Helen Lang has launched a gift collection with John Lewis which features her decorative illustrations. The exclusive collection in stores across the UK has been developed in collaboration with Wild & Wolf, a British design led gift company who have also developed product collections with designers such as Rob Ryan and Celia Birtwell. Helen's collection consists of Tote Shopper Bag, Compact Mirror, Coin Purse, Passport Cover, Wash Bag and an A6 Note Book, perfect gifts for females. Take a look.
Madamesange is represented by Illustration
Chris Ede has completed a challenging project creating 40, yes 40 album covers for production music library Synctracks. Commissioned by Liz Williams, this was a huge project for Chris and has shown his amazing versatility in having to create a different style for each album.
Chris Ede is represented by Illustration Ltd
Anthony Pike illustrates a Royal Mail Stamp to commemorate The Olympic and Paralympic Games (Athletics : Field) to be held in London in July 2012.
Anthony Pike is represented by The Art Market.
This month's eye catching Creative Review cover has been designed by Peter Grundy. The issue contains the Illustration Annual hence the letter 'I' constructed from all the tools of an Illustrator's trade. Peter Grundy is represented by Debut Art
Varoom - illustration, culture, society
Knowledge
For Varoom 15 we have travelled from the Land of Blind Faith, through Imagination County and ended up at Resolution Mountains. Lost? Don’t worry, follow the map on Marian Bantjes' beautiful illustration for our Knowledge issue. Also, Airside agency show us How To Do How To Do films with illustrative wit; we learn five lessons from the comics festival in Angoulême, and Des McCannon shows us the educational, intellectual and practical value of using illustration across all disciplines in school.
All this and more. Welcome to the Knowledge issue.
Illustrators featured in Varoom 15 include: William Goldsmith, Jon McNaught, Edward Gorey, Paul Davis, Marian Bantjes, Art Spiegelman, Baru, Dominique Goblet, Norman Rockwell, Luke Best, Alan Baker, David Foldvari, Marion Deuchars, Agnes Decourchelle, Slawa Harasymowicz, Michael Gillette, Masumi Briozzo, Laura Carlin, Luis Scafati, Stuart Murray, Neal Fox, Richard Dinnis and Lorenzo Chiavini.
Exclusive cover by Christoph Niemann.
Varoom available in selective stores from late April, or issues and subscriptions at varoomlab.com now.
For more info on the content of Varoom 15, click here
