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Our First Year illustration students have been busily working away creating Pop-up books that illustrate Robbie Burns’ epic tale ‘Tam O’Shanter’. They turned into veritable paper engineers, making books of all shapes and sizes: one comes in four little coffins, and another one is contained in two halves of a bottle.
But where can you see all these wonders? The work is on display in the entrance hall at Edinburgh’s National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge until Thursday 20 February 2014. Entrance is free!
First and Second Year students have been teaming up over the last week to produce small editions of books about Edinburgh’s famous Grassmarket as part of a collaborative book project between the Illustration Students at Edinburgh College of Art and Analogue Books to celebrate Book week Scotland.
Julie from Analogue Books did a splendid job of starting off our students last Wednesday and Thursday by showing them around her shop, and it has been very exciting to see their projects develop from early sketches and location drawings into fully fledged books and zines.
Come along at 2.30pm tomorrow, Friday 29th November for the book launch and students’ presentations in room 2.13 of Evolution House – samples of the books will be on display at Analogue Books from Saturday 30th November until Saturday 7th December. Come and have a look!
InResidence is an exhibition produced by the Artists in Residence from the Design School at Edinburgh College of Art. The exhibition runs from 22-28 June 2013 in Evolution House. The exhibition draws together practitioners from Film&TV, Glass, Illustration, Jewellery and Product Design to present a selection of works undertaken during their Residency.
Congratulations to Holly Sterling for her success in the Macmillan Prize!
We are delighted that her work has been selected as Highly Commended after the Macmillan Prize Judging Day this week. Holly’s original artwork will now be exhibited in a week-long exhibition at the Foyles Bookshop Gallery, opening with a private view on Saturday 25 May – 31 May.
You can also see Holly’s work as part of the MFA Degree Show at Edinburgh College of Art which runs from 1-9 June 2013.
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 Hyslop:
‘In order to be able to function in the world humans have found it essential to map their surroundings in order to impart information to others and to understand the world for themselves. However, it has not always only for practical reasons that maps have been made. People, from childhood, have a natural urge to make them and maps are fascinating to look at. They draw the viewer in and anyone who makes a map demonstrates some of their thought process through the way it is laid out and designed.
In this project second year Illustration students were asked to produce a piece of work in book form – this could be taken in as broad a sense as they wished. The book had to contain maps and or diagrams that explained a place. This place could be somewhere they knew intimately well, somewhere they were keen to explore and learn about through mapping it, or an imaginary place.’
For those who missed the event, there will be further opportunity to see the books which will be on display at Edinburgh College of Art Library, Evolution House, University of Edinburgh until the middle of May.
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 famous Roberto Innocenti.
Good, eh?
A small selection from the fantastic sample of Picture book illustration original artworks.
A school party came over from Glasgow to hear the stories illustrated brought to life in Italian by a visiting storyteller.
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?
Astrid Jaekel
