This week we delighted to blog a post by Jonathan Gibbs, programme director of Illustration at ECA: Mark Hearld’s exhibition at York Gallery has been The Lumber Room: Unimagined Treasures. This is an extraordinary room full of miscellaneous stored objects and artefacts, all of which are complemented by examples of his own work. This magazine …
Bookmarks 2017
We have had another great Bookmarks event this year, thank you to everyone who helped make it a real success. A series of talks by educators John Brown, Astrid Jaekel, Alan Mason, Mike Inglis and Edwin Pickstone gave a good introduction to the subject and was followed by our annual Artists’ Books and Small Press …
UPCOMING GRADUATES – BORIS LEE
Featured on our blog today is Boris Lee, who is graduating soon from our MFA2 course. You can find more of his work at borischlee.tumblr.com Hello, I am Boris, I am a self-taught illustrator and a story maker. My works are symbolic, metaphorical and naïve, and I focus on picturebooks. I have a bachelor degree in …
UPCOMING GRADUATES – NARUDEE INGAVAT
This week on the blog we have Narudee Ingavat, aka Ordinary Nadee, a soon-to-be graduate of our MFA2 course. I do believe that there must be something special hidden in the simple things which surrounds us. “Ordinary Daydreams” is a GIFs & Loop animations project created in the final year of my MFA degree. Inspired …
ReimagiNation – Cumbernauld Stories illustrated
ReimagiNation: ECA students illustrate stories of life in Cumbernauld Throughout the year Edinburgh International Book Festival hits the road with an exciting program of events and activities called ‘Booked!’. Bringing the excitement and energy of the book festival to towns across Scotland, ‘Booked!’ brings together authors, artists and audiences to celebrate words, images and ideas. …
Drawing in the Meadows
Last week the first year illustration students set out on a location drawing trip in the Meadows with artist Catharine Davison. Most of the students are familiar with this area of the city and were encouraged to look at this setting in a new way, concentrating on working directly from source. Catharine encouraged the students …
3rd year student runner-up in Little White Lies competition
We’re delighted to hear that one of our 3rd year students, Felicity Hamilton, was selected as a runner-up in Little White Lies’ latest Design Competition and is featured on their website: lwlies.com/articles/kristen-stewart-personal-shopper-fashion-magazine-covers Mar 27, 2017
Picture Book in Progress
In February this year our second year students made a visit to Seven Stories – National Centre for Children’s Books. This fabulous resource had both staff and students melting with delight as they oozed over original artwork for illustrations, sketchbooks and dummy books from the archive collection held at the centre. The purpose of the …
upcoming graduates – Ann MacLeod
Having always been a bit preoccupied with magazines and food I thought that now would be a good time to do something with all those years of research I’ve amassed. And so, I’ve been developing a magazine about food called Frankly which is about talking honestly about our food and how it’s sourced. It’s based …
Postgraduate student Katie Chappell is going to Switzerland!
I have been selected to go and work with a group of journalism students on the St Gallen Symposium, a student-run global forum. In May I’ll head to Switzerland for a week to listen to speakers and create illustrations which will go into the official magazine which gets sent out to speakers and attendees after …
