Fledgling Press invited the Second year Illustration students once again to design artwork for their upcoming publication ‘The Red Man Turns to Green’ by Dickson Telfer. This collection of contemporary short stories set the students a huge challenge as they battled with how to capture the essence of the book without being too specific …
Competition success for student Holly Sterling
MFA student Holly Sterling has found success in the Over the Hills and Far Away Illustration Competition set up by Seven Stories – the National Centre for Children’s Books. Her design for Hush-a-bye and Far Away was selected from over 30 entries from institutions across the UK for inclusion in a book of nursery rhymes, …
Student success at the Fruitmarket Gallery Artists’ Bookmarket
A huge well done to the second year Illustrators who put on a great show at the Fruitmarket Gallery on Saturday! The event was a great success and the books presented created lots of interested amongst visitors to the event. Students presented work made as part of their recent project ‘MapBook’ with book artist Jane …
ECA Illustration at Artists’ Bookmarket
Second year Illustration students are presenting their recent project ‘MapBook’ at the Fruitmarket Gallery tomorrow! Artists’ Bookmarket 20 April 2013 11am-6pm Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh. Apr 19, 2013
The Man Who changed the look of British Illustration
We were delighted to welcome Ben Cox and Brian Grimwood of The Central Illustration Agency to inspire students and staff last Friday at ECA. (Our signed and illustrated copy of Brian’s book) Ben began by introducing us to the agency and how it came to be, the vision that Brian had when he brought together …
Sara Ogilvie Comes to Visit
Illustration for ‘An intimate history of Humanity’ by Theodore Zeldin We were delighted that Illustrator Sara Oglivie came to visit last Friday. Sara is an old friend of the department and gave an entertaining an extremely useful talk on her practice as an illustrator, printmaker and book artist with plenty of hints for designers newly …
Roberto Innocenti and some Italian illustrations
If, like me, you missed the opening of the Italian show last month, this is what it looked like: These two fellows curated the comics exhibition, and also work part-time as heavily armed bodyguards for celebrity illustrators. They’re called Maurizio Scudiero and Davide Sandrini. Jonathan Gibbs glides effortlessly across the dancefloor.And of course the incredibly …
Jonathan Gibbs at the Royal Scottish Academy
Jonathan Gibbs, our master and commander (and head of department) is this years Invited Artist at the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy! And we’re overwhelmed with other news (and exciting other things) which will be put up here EVERY SINGLE DAY this week. Good, eh? Mar 13, 2013
Waiting For Godot
David Jones from Second Year has been working with Bedlam Theatre recently to create this poster for their current production. Mar 5, 2013
A wonderful evening at Blackwell’s Bookshop
Artist-in-residence Astrid Jaekel writes about her recent success: A few months ago I won a student competition to redesign the paperback book cover of Charlie Fletcher’s novel “Far Rockaway”. I created a papercut design inspired by various elements within the story, including the drama and the expanse of the landscape. For the final book, published by …
