Thursday was a busy day with 33 students attending four visits all over London.

First of all Tom took students to ‘Human After All‘. Human After All’s team of curious, creative minds have worked together for over 10 years. They’ve built strategic relationships with companies including Facebook, the World Economic Forum and BAFTA.

They collaborate with brands of any size that have passion and purpose and pride themselves on providing the best service and crafting communication materials that bring together rich ideas and intelligent design. Overall a really insightful visit for our students.

Early in the afternoon Rachel took students to see The Folio Society. Founded in London in 1947, The Folio Society publishes carefully crafted editions of the world’s finest literature. They believe that great books deserve to be presented in a form worthy of their contents. For nearly 70 years The Folio Society have celebrated the unique joy to be derived from owning, holding and reading a beautiful printed edition.

A number of recent Falmouth Graduates have produced covers for this prestigious publisher, including James Boswell. Many thanks as ever go to Sheri Gee and Raquel who provided a really informative talk about the company and in particular how they commission illustrators. A valuable visit and a privilege to look at such beautiful books.

Also early in the afternoon Nigel made the trek out to Stratford, East London with 5 students to see our good friend Tamyln Francis and Caroline Thomson at Arena Illustration Agency. Arena is home to four Falmouth alumni: Emily Fox, Euan Cook, Levi Pinfold and Joe Lillington. It is always amazing to see how they operate such a successful internationally recognised agency from two reception rooms of a Victorian terraced house (a beautiful one mind!). Tamlyn and Caroline took students through the whole process of a job from the perspective of an agent. The students were picking up metaphorical gold dust in terms of the detailed knowledge that Tamlyn and Caroline were passing on to them. Thanks to Arena once again…

Finally Tom took a small group to see Dorling Kindersley, one of the giants of non-fiction publishing. Martin Wilson met the group and gave a great presentation on this  increasingly popular area of illustration…

Tamlyn and Caroline talking to Falmouth students