Last week, our first year students had the opportunity to attend a workshop by artist and educator Brigid Collins where they learnt how to translate literary text into physical artist books, creating poem-houses with wire, found material, paper and type. Below are some photos that Brigid took during the workshop of our students’ creations and …
Alive
Thursday 30th January saw the opening of our Postgraduate students’ exhibition ‘Alive!’ at the Institut Fancais Ecosse as part of the Institut’s ‘Night of Ideas’, a yearly event launched in 2016 with exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, debates and screenings held simultaneously in Paris, London and Edinburgh. The exhibition will be running until Saturday 8th February …
Wigtown Book Festival 2019
Now that the Christmas break is over and the new Semester is in full swing for us in the Illustration department, we have been reflecting on 2019 and all of the exciting opportunities that came with it. In September, we had the opportunity to take our House Style project to Wigtown Book Festival, where illustrations …
Bookmarks 2020
Applications for BOOKMARKS 2020 are now open! Now in it’s sixth year, BOOKMARKS artists’ book and zine fair will once again provide an exciting platform for visitors to explore artists’ books and zines made by practitioners from across Scotland and further afield. Exploring the artists’ book in its broadest sense, BOOKMARKS is a first stop for …
House Style 2019
The Edinburgh International Book festival is in full swing and the Illustration department is on board too, proudly presenting ‘House Style 2019’. This project saw every student, from Stage 1 to MFA2, and all members of staff choose a book published in the UK in the past 20 years and creating one illustration in response. …
Macmillan Prize 2019: student success
Two of our recent graduates have every reason to celebrate: Seobhan Hope’s book ‘Summer’s Sleep’ has been highly commended and Amy Steele has won 3rd prize for her book ‘The Lunchbox’. In this blog post Seobhan and Amy speak about their books and how it feels to be shortlisted for / awarded this prestigious picture book …
Non-fiction picture book
Non-fiction picture books Picture books are how we learn to read, following the images and letting the character lead you through the narrative. For an illustrator there is loads to get your head around including rhythm and pacing, story curves, character development, how to add drama and tone, balancing text and image on a big …
Illustration staff Astrid Jaekel wins AOI award
A Teaching Fellow in Illustration has been awarded a prestigious Association of Illustrators (AOI) World Award for her recent street art project, “If These Walls Could Talk”. For the twentieth anniversary of Wigtown’s book festival, Astrid Jaekel decorated 11 buildings on the small town’s square with her illustrations. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, many …
New Course – Creative Book Works
‘Successful artists’ books utilize the whole design and production process to reinforce the message of the subject matter. Shapes, folds, text patterns and materials can be used to nudge the viewer in the direction of the artist’s message, producing a unified coherent statement from the outset’ Bodman, Sarah (2005), Creating Artists’ Books. A&C Black, London. …
A-Z
A-Z is a first year Illustration project celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was first conceived, compiled, printed and published in Edinburgh on 10 December 1768. The project began with a visit to the archives of the National Library of Scotland, where library staff introduced the student group to the original Encyclopaedia Britannica. …
