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As our first semester draws to an end the illustration students are joining with EUSA for a festive celebration. Today Teviot Garden hosts the annual Winter Feast, where students from across all areas of the university come together to enjoy a hog roast, mulled wine & cider, carols music and craft stalls.
Many of of illustrators will be hosting stalls, showcasing their own beautifully designed christmas cards, wrapping papers, prints, artists books and other illustrated gifts. Check out the pictures below for a sneak preview of what our students have on offer today.
Kitty Concertina by Vapuri KarinenReversible New Town/ Old Town Zine by Victoria Ball
Make sure you check out Winter Feast today between 11am – 6pm, all our welcome to join the festivities!
Today in the Illustration Department we’re very excited to receive the 32nd edition of ‘Le immagini della fantasia’, the catalogue of an Italian exhibition that is currently showcasing the work of many of our talented staff and alumni. Every year Casa Della Fantsia invites illustrators, authors and publishers to represent the international illustration scene in all its amazing variety, and to confirm the value of the illustrated book.
Additionally, this year the exhibition celebrates Tales from Scotland. Triggered by the success of the 29th edition of ‘Le immagini della fantasia’ held in the Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Court in 2012, Casa Della Fantsia has dedicated an entire section to Scotland, with its traditional fairy tales and contemporary writers. The catalogue includes atmospheric glimpses of Scottish landscapes illustrated by Anine Bösenberg, Anna Forlati, Jonathan Gibbs, Philip Giordano, Kate Leiper, John Manna, Marina Marcolin, Kate McLelland, Domenica More Gordon, Lucie Müllerová, Paschetta Marco, Marco Soma, Emily Sutton, Francesca Zoboli.
Not to mention a wonderful poem written by tutor, Vivian French, following Scotland and its traditions in a thrilling journey throughout the year, each month illustrated by Edinburgh based artists in collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art, including Anine Bösenberg, Laura Clark, Laura Darling, Hannah Foley, Jonathan Gibbs, Alexander Jackson, Cate James, Amy Johnston, Philip Longson, Kasia Matyjaszek, Kate McLelland, Eilidh Muldoon. (images found below)
Congratulations to all involved. The exhibition is being held at Sàrmede, Casa della fantasia, until January 18th 2015.
Yesterday evening our 3rd year students had a fantastic finale to their largest project of the semester ‘The Man Who Lived in the Zoo’. We are happy to announce that this year Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Zoo will been collaborating on several creative projects.
Our students were asked to create a children’s storybook based on Darren McGarry, Head of Living Collections at Edinburgh Zoo (otherwise known as the man who lives at the zoo). Over the past two months Darren invited our students to hear his hilarious stories, meet the animals and learn about the important conservation projects at the heart of Edinburgh Zoo. This was a mammoth task for our 3rd years to take on, designing 12 double page spreads, end papers and a book cover on top of their already busy schedules.
But our students rose to the challenge and each created wonderful narratives, characters and illustrations. Yesterday evening the work was presented to the team at Edinburgh Zoo in the Budungo Lecture Theatre, to a unique backdrop of the chimpanzee enclosure. Everyone had a great evening of reading stories and enjoying one anothers’ illustrations. The ECA staff would like to thank the students for all their hard work and of course fantastic team at Edinburgh Zoo for making this collaboration possible.
Watch this space for exciting further developments on this project including an exhibition of ‘The Man Who Lived in the Zoo’ coming in 2015.
Today ECA is quiet and peaceful as students steadily work away towards their Christmas deadlines feeling encouraged by the success of a last nights Book Marks event. For those who don’t know, this semester the Illustration Department organised Book Marks @ ECA, an Artists Book and Zine fair in celebration of Book Week Scotland.
Students, staff and alumni showcased a variety of creative book form, ranging from beautifully hand bound sketchbooks, children’s storybooks, student led zines and collaborative publications. It was fantastic to meet new Edinburgh based artists and to reunite with our alumni, celebrating their success.
A huge thank you to everyone who came along, to all of our stall holders and to Book Week Scotland for all their support. Let’s do it all again! More pictures to come.
Join us in the beautiful ECA Sculpture Court today for BookMarks, an artist book and Zine fair. Browse the work of students, staff and alumni and speak with the artists themselves. A perfect opportunity to buy unique Christmas gifts or to inspire your own creativity. We hope to see you there!
We are pleased to welcome Simon and Angie Lewin as part of our Professional Practice Lecture Series, this Friday at 2.30pm.
Angie and Simon run St. Jude’s Gallery as well as producing limited print runs of beautiful wallpapers and furnishing fabrics. Angie herself is a talented printmaker, painter and designer.
For this week’s Friday Talk we are welcoming Adrian Jeffrey from Mighty Small, an Edinburgh based agency specialising in strategy and advertising. The talk will take place at 2.30pm in the Hunter Lecture Theatre, come and listen to those wise words!
clockwise from top left: Peony Gent, Hanna Frelek, Ellie Walker, George Douglas, Drew Walker & Laura Griffin, Stella Phipps, Laura Darling (photo by Drew Walker)
Last week some of our students had the opportunity to display work at an evening event at Morton Fraser Solicitors. Morton Fraser’s offices are located in Edinburgh’s Quartermile, with stunning views across the city. Our students had a great time talking about their work to the guests of the event and we look forward to the possibility of more collaborations of this kind.
This week’s Professional Practice Talk will be held by Professor Kim Reynolds of Newcastle University. She specialises in Children’s Literature Studies and is a founding member of the Children’s Laureate. Find out more about her here.
The talk will be in room 2.13, this Friday at 2.30pm. Come and learn something!
This week’s visiting speaker will be Eleanor Crow, as part of our ongoing Professional Practice Lecture Series. Eleanor is a book cover designer and illustrator, and has recently produced a series of portraits of East London cafes. This Friday, 24th January, at 2.30pm in room 2.13. Come and be enlightened!
Cafes by Eleanor Crow – image via http://www.eleanorcrow.com/
