House of Illustration Submission

These are the pieces I am submitting for the House of Illustration/Folio Competition. I spent a long time struggling with the illustrations. I found making an illustration from a story really difficult as well as trying to develop a style that suits all three images. But finally it is the day for submission and these are my illustrations. I am not confident that they can win or even will be close to winning but I am glad that I continued with the brief and didn't give up on it.

Green Checklist

Now that I have this it should be easy...

Charles Bergquist

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Charles Bergquist's portfolio is mainly photography based but his photography is so different that is verges on illustration. The colours are particularly attractive and change the image from a photograph to something imaginative.

The 3rd image here reminded me of one of my own pieces which I made a while ago but submitted for the Titbits exhibition put on by our class.

Starbucks - Minimal Design

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For some reason I was quite shocked to hear that Starbucks had redesigned their logo. I think probably because it has probably always been the same solid motif since I have known of them. Also, I thought they would hold on to the traditional looks of original logos but instead have taken all extras off to create a minimal, white out, single colour logo.

I found this image quite funny as a post I made quite recently showed how logos can be made minimal. The examples they gave looked just like the image above. 

Folio Books - Mandarin

  

The book The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir comes as a special edition with illustrations by Christopher Corr for the Folio Books.

I really like the drawing style of Christopher Corr, it is untidy and self explanatory whilst still being fun and colourful. I would like my illustrations to have similar qualities. 

Internships

Guggenheim Internships

This sounds like an amazing opportunity that I will definitely be applying for. Fingers crossed the report that I recently handed in will be up to scratch and I can use it as part of my application.

A year, or 6 months in New York would be a great leap in the right direction for a career as well as a chance to explore a bit more, we definitely didnt have enough time to hit all the New York wonders when we were there in March.

Ski vs Board

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A very interesting article about the science behind the constant argument of snow boarding versus skiing. Which is harder?