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June 25, 2009
June 14, 2009
Nice page in the new 'Visual Dictionary of Illustration'
Its published by AVA, i love that i am illustrating 'Interpretation' this is great for me as i am trying more and more to work in this way and respond to text, especially the Chekhov short story i want to illustrate, but haven't as yet. Though i am building up some great Russian angst about not having got around to it yet, so that OK so long as i do eventually take it on.
Here's the image as it appeared in my own book 'Ratio' it was done as a series of illustrations that where an interpretation of the work of the visionary Sci Fi author John Brunner, of whom i am a massive fan, specifically a book called 'The jagged Orbit'.
June 05, 2009
Image published in 'Retro Design'
Achta Design = have published one of my images for a book that makes connections between new digital approaches to image making and the way that this work is informed by the illustration/design of the past.
Its pretty vast and i am in there with some really great illustrators and designers from the past, so i was really pleased to have this work published.
This is the image, the book is in German so i'm not sure what they had to say about it, but i was looking at a lot of VOGUE covers from the 1920's at the time, basically these guys HERE .
Sunday Telegraph (UK) Beauty Page spot illustration
Because the book is in German i was curious to know how my work had been written about, Sara Hausmann wrote back to me to say that...
"We see a connection to the style japonism, especially to Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations with the importance of the contrast between black and white and between line and plane area"
This is pretty accurate, its the languid qualities of both Beardsley and Japonisme that i wanted to capture, and of course the pale skin is a direct influence, but as i said i was also looking at a lot of slightly later work by the illustrators that worked for Vogue.
