Tag: 2014

Taiwanese Cooking with Liv Wan!

Do you like food? Illustration? Maybe even books? Yes? Excellent – sharpen your knives and get the pans out, because our 2nd year student Liv Wan is about to publish her first cook book, Home-style Taiwanese Cooking.

Home-Style Taiwanese Cooking by Tsung-Yun Wan
Home-Style Taiwanese Cooking by Tsung-Yun Wan

Liv was born and raised in Taipei where she trained as a chef before moving to Edinburgh, where she now lives with her husband and baby. Liv’s illustration work is just as beautiful and layered as her cooking, and her book is well worth checking out for fans of illustration and food alike!

Looks good enough to eat!
Looks good enough to eat!

Home-style Taiwanese Cooking is out June 16th  through Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, and available for pre-order from your favourite book shop.

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Last Friday Talk of this year: Simon and Angie Lewin!

Angie Lewin - via http://www.angielewin.co.uk/
Angie Lewin – via http://www.angielewin.co.uk/

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.

Join us and learn something!

Seamonsters of Portobello

Last Friday our department welcomed a group of pupils, teachers, parents and grandparents from Towerbank Primary School. The children from Portobello had been working with our Second Year students and the author Vivian French to create a picture book about a sea monster.

Our students incorporated the children’s drawings into a large book, as well as creating little sea monster books of their own, both of which they presented to the pupils on Friday.

Quite possibly Edinburgh's longest book!
Quite possibly Edinburgh’s longest book!
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Early masterpieces by aspiring young artists.
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Peony and her book, with sea monster cake in the background.

It was fun to have visitors in our department, a big thank you to everyone involved!

This Friday – Professional Practice Talk with Adrian Jeffrey from Mighty Small

image via http://www.mightysmall.co.uk/
image via http://www.mightysmall.co.uk/

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!

MapBook

Our Second Year Students have been flexing their bookmaking muscles recently for our three week long MapBook project. The task was to produce a map book, with the theme and format being completely up to the individual.

Students produced a stunning range of books, including star charts, maps of the underworld, maps of Edinburgh, Ireland, South Africa, or Taipei or even more faraway places. Their books took the shape of folios, concertinas, float books and some for which a name has yet to be invented.

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Map of the Greek Underworld – Peony Gent
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Map of Irish Myths – Mhairi Braden

 

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Map of a walk through Edinburgh – Victoria Ball

 

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Beasts of Burden – Felix Miall
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Taipei Travel Guide – Liv Wan
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Map of Lithuania – Gabriele Lisauskaite

And to finish off, all maps were combined into one big big map by the students – look at them go!

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photo by Gabriele Lisauskaite

Pop-Up Burns at the National Library of Scotland

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!

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Eleanor Crow to speak at Friday Lectures

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!

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Cafes by Eleanor Crow – image via http://www.eleanorcrow.com/