Falmouth BA (Hons) Illustration

2016 Falmouth Illustration Degree Show Private View!

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This year’s Falmouth Illustration Degree Show kicked of with a fantastic Private View last Friday. The evening began with Ginny Button, the director of the Falmouth School of Art, addressing all FSA students before myself and other Heads of Subject handed out this year’s course awards. The winners of the illustration course awards were: Sara Hougham Slade (‘Outstanding Student Achievement’), Julia de Graaf (‘Outstanding Studentship’), Lucy Tomlinson (‘Outstanding Dissertation’), Seekan Hui and Ellen Bennett won the ‘Paper Rose Award’. The crowds then dispersed to the various exhibitions throughout the campus and the PV started for real.

This was one of the busiest (and warmest!) private views in recent memory. It was great to see students and parents enjoying what is undoubtedly a very strong show this year. It was also great to be able to see 1st and 2nd year work also on the floor below (see the next post for details of this show). Today is the last day of the show, so if you want to see it then come down before 4pm. If you can’t make then here is a sample of work that is on show….

More work can be seen on individual student websites by clicking Agency Website

Lizzie Houldsworth
Alex Moore
Lewis Carolan
Janie Anderson
Robert Newbury
Katie Hickey
Kamilla Steer
Lizzie Scott
Freddy Fuller
Rebecca Appleby
Eilidh Baker
Hannah Jay Hollowed
Gabriella Huck
Katie Hickey
Sophie Rawe
Robert Newbury
Rachel Pinnick
Calum Palmer
Charlotte O’Hare
Ryan Morrison
Freddy Fuller
Melissa Featherstone
Ben Flanagan
Tom Walker
Rebekah Truscott
Frederique Van
Henry Potter
Ashleigh Smitham
Charlotte Roberts
Eleanor Hardiman
Jasmin Juridch
Jia-Yi Liu
Olivia Watters
Sienna Rose Wood
Shannon Lund
Lisa Luo Fang
Emily May
Beth Wheatley
Jessica Grimsdale
Billie Goucher
Georgina Godson
Akrhan Girmay
Akrhan Girmay
Oscar Mitchell
Emma Bramman
Oliver Averill
Solene Chaudois
Solene Chaudois
Jessica Meyrick
Kimberley Meech
Alex Moore
Seekan Hui
Liam Godfrey
Sara Hougham Slade
Julia de Graaf
Julia de Graaf
Tom Fussell
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Level 2 Berlin Study Visit, Report and Photos 

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Earlier in the year 2nd year Falmouth Illustration students travelled to Berlin. Here is an outline of how the week went from Natalie Hayes, our Level 2 Course Co-ordinator…

‘On the Monday of the trip Linda and myself took 20 students to visit the illustrator Sophia Martinek , who spoke at length about her work. She was able to show the students a range of projects, from publishing to editorial and music promotion. It was interesting to hear from her that she doesn’t get much work from Germany, but that she regularly works for British and American publications such as the New York Times. She also spoke about a nine month project where she produced over 100 illustrations for the book ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Rockport Publishers.

In the evening we went to an Exhibition of the work of Professor Henning Wagenbreth from the University of the Arts Berlin. The exhibition was at Re:Surgo Gallery, which is an independent gallery run by printmakers. Henning spoke to a group of 20+ students about his work, his methods and the large scale production of his screen prints. The gallery also sells beautiful printed books .

On Tuesday afternoon we took a group of 15 students to the independent publisher Reprodukt. They are primarily responsible for publishing graphic novels and comics ranging from serious titles including ‘Irmina’ by Barbara Yelin to translations of books such as the Hilda series, originally published by Flying Eye Books. We met with Klara Gross who spoke to the students at length about the titles, and took many questions from the students about getting work published.

On the Wednesday morning we took 20 students to visit the Illustrator Jacob Hinrichs in his studio. He showed several of his recent projects to the students, including the substantial graphic novel ‘Hans Fallada’. He also spoke of his experiences of working on Editorial projects for a range of clients, including The Guardian and The Times and spoke of the importance of Illustrators valuing themselves by charging fees reflective of the quality of the work and time spent producing the work.

On Wednesday evening all students (37) were the guest of the Illustrator and artist Patrick Thomas who gave an extensive illustrated visual presentation, documenting his journey from the RCA, through to his current practise creating prints, exhibiting and teaching. Highlights included examples of his work for the maverick designer / artist Mariscal and designing logos for the clothing company Desigual.’

Thanks to Natalie, Linda and everyone involved in organising this fantastic trip. Apologies that it has taken longer than intended to get this up on the blog.

Sophia
Reprodukt
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Jacob
Jacob Spreads
Jacob book 2
Henning
Henning
2nd year students on the Berlin trip

Wunderkammer Hot off the Press!

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Many of you will know that for the last ten years, Falmouth Illustration has become known for its popular ‘The Illustrated Book of Quotes & Sayings’ publication

What is essentially an illustration source book, ‘The Illustrated Book of Quotes & Sayings’ has proved to be incredibly successful and well recognized in the world of illustration. The book can be found on the desks of all the top illustration agencies, publishers and design companies in New York and London such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Walker Books, Penguin Books, Design Bridge, to name just a few.

This year we felt it was time for a change and have produced more of a magazine style publication re-named as ‘Wunderkammer, our illustrated book of curiosities’.

The concept behind ‘Wunderkammer’ was to create a more magazine style book, rather than the former catalogue, which features not only this years graduates but also celebrates our amazing Alumni. The magazine includes ‘hot picks’ from Alumni published books, industry comments, tips for students, national and international awards and of course this years graduates. The magazine is aimed at students, graduates and industry providing inspiration, advice and tips from experts in the illustration industry.

The magazine is a wonderful celebration of our students and Alumni and such an invaluable promotional tool not only for them, but us as a course during very difficult times for Universities. In July our students take part in D&AD and New Designers, and we will use this opportunity to feature the new magazine, hopefully encouraging the next generation of budding illustrators to come and join us on the course whilst providing support and advice for those who have recently graduated.

Both the staff and students are incredibly proud of the magazine. Many thanks go to Keryn Bibby who did an amazing job on the design and production of the book.

Details on how you can purchase a copy will posted on this blog shortly.

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Hot Picks from 2015-16
David Bain
Katie Ponder
Briony Smith
Aaron Lewis
Freya Hartas
Katie Ponder
Freya Hartas
Katie Ponder
David Bain’s top tips
BA Illustration team
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1st year students complete ‘Project X’

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Earlier this spring 1st year students took part in the annual ‘Project X’ challenge. This project has taken different forms over the last 15-20 years at Falmouth but essentially involves an editorial text being treated as a real life brief. Students have about 3 days to develop a concept, produce full colour artwork and then present it in context. It’s really a slice of reality.
We usually find that the pressure of this exercise often brings the best out of the students and this year was no different with the conceptual strategies that had been delivered earlier in the year being used on a regular basis. ‘Project X’ is presented as an informal competition. The winners are shown here.

1st place: Theo Morgan
2nd Place: Evan Hollingdale
Joint 3rd place: Matthew Prosser
Joint 3rd place: Arad Golan Coll

New York Study Trip: Day 4

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Great feedback is coming in from yesterday’s visits with real interest being shown in the students work with good opportunities to follow up in the near future including the children’s fiction group meeting with Marc Drumwright from Enchanted Lion. He was kind enough to spend 4 hours with students and gave everyone great feedback. 

The Enchanted Lion visit
The Enchanted Lion visit
Oliver Jeffers and Falmouth Students
Oliver Jeffers
The Scholastic visit
This one’s for Mat
Interesting AdShell
The building used on the cover of Lead Zeppelin’s ‘Physical Grafitti’
Mural in the East Village

An added bonus was a meeting at The Invisble Dog Art Center with Oliver Jeffers for Catherine, Jo, Leah, Hannah and Millie. Below are some photos from the day’s visits and also one of the building in the East Village that was photographed for the cover of Led Zeppelin’s iconic ‘Physical Graffiti’ album. Sue and I just stumbled on it when wandering past.

Todays visits include; Henry Holt Books (a young audience imprint of MacMillan Books), Nautilus, Little Brown Books, Pearlfisher Design, Sterling Books, Farrar Straus Giroux and Bullet Proof.

More updates to follow….

New York 2016: Day 2

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We woke up to rain this morning but it didn’t dampen our spirits. students discussed yesterday’s visits over breakfast before heading out to nine new appointments with New York art directors.. Visits today include; Enchanted Lion Books, Studio NYC, The. New York Times, WW Norlton,  Ray Ray Books, Bust Magazine, Harper. Collins, and the wall StreetJournal.

At the Wall Street Journal David Bamundo and four other art directors were very impressed with the portfolios that 10. Falmouth Illustrators showed them. The Wall Street Journal is now a great contact for. Falmouth, having seen our students and commissioned them over the last three years. David and Peter namechecked a number of Falmouth Alumni, including Josh McKenna, Beth Walrond,

Outside the visit

and David Doran

Day One NY 2016

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Driving into Manhattan is still as exciting as ever though with huge skyscrapers eventually blocking out the night sky as we approached our destination. After arriving  at the YMCA pretty late (10pm local time, 3am UK time!) most of chose to get some sleep straight away.

Day one involves upto 5 visits. 11am sees students visiting Hard Hat Design. Hardhat is a boutique, award winning, multi-disciplinary creative agency based in Brooklyn. At 3pm students visit Patrick Crotty from PEOW. PEOW is a studio that specialise in comic book publishing and Risograph printing.At 3pm a group of students will visit Chase Design Group. Chase Design Group is a creative agency with offices in California and New York. Then at 5.30pm students visit Vault 49, an award winning New York agency who create branding, advertising, design and art. Its also hoped that some students will be able to visit Nobrow’s NY office subject to confirmation. Good luck to everyone. We hopefully will be able to share images of the visits as and when they come in…

Falmouth Students Visit Penguin Books & Egmont

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Student from Falmouth BA Illustration visited both Penguin Books and Egmont Childrens Book Publisher today.

Senior designers Chris and Jill were able to stand in at the last minute for ex Falmouth student Richard bravery who was ill today (get well soon Richard). Chris and Jill did a great job of outlining the processes that underpin the design of book covers and how illustrators can get their work in front of the designers at Penguin.

The visit to Egmont was great. Tiffany Leeson, art director and the team gave a wonderfully informative presentation on Childrens books from pre school to young adult, both fiction and nonfiction, focussing on the commissioning of illustrators. Many thanks….

Outside Penguin Books
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The Egmont presentation
Egmont foyer
The Egmont presentation

 

Falmouth Illustration Students Visit ‘Human After All’ and the Telegraph

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Sue Clarke took two groups of students to see innovative design group, ‘Human After All’ and then the ‘Telegraph’ yesterday.

Human After All is an innovative creative Agency who specialise in Brand Identities. Their awards include:

  • World Illustration Awards 2015
  • Magpile Best New Magazine 2014
  • Computer Arts Top 30 Studios 2014
  • The One Show 2014
  • FPO Awards 2014
  • Type Directors Club 2014
  • D&AD Professional Awards 2013
  • Society of Publication Designers 2013
  • Art Directors Club 2013
  • Type Directors Club 2013
  • Creative Review Annual 2013
  • Creative Circle Awards 2013

The Telegraph is of course one of the UK’s most iconic Newspapers with a long history of commissioning some of the best illustrators in the world.

Bothe visits were incredibly useful for our students. Thankyou to all involved…

The Human aAfter All Offices
In discussion with Human After All
In the Foyer of the Telegraph with Art Director Gary Cochrane
Looking out onto the main news room at the Telegraph

Falmouth illustration students visit The Guardian

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Nine Falmouth illustration students were given an insight into how editorial illustration is commissioned by Maggie Murphy and Pauline Doyle at the Guardian Newspaper this afternoon. It was a fascinating visit and great to know that our Falmouth Illustration alumni from last year, Thomas Pullin, is still producing great work for the Guardian.

Outside the guardian
The Guardian foyer
Students at the guardian
Pauline Doyle and Maggie Murphy talking to Falmouth Illustration students at the Guardian