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To Artademics: A Manifesto

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Exhibition: Jonny Hannah

An exhibition of work by Jonny Hannah will be on display at the The Holden Galley, Manchester Metropolitan University Faculty of Art & Design, on the 3 and 4 November 2011 to coincide with our second international illustration symposium; Illustration & Writing: Visual Languages. All are welcome to join us at the launch from 5.00 [...]

CSAD Illustration Exhibition

The Cardiff School of Art & Design Illustration team will be showing new work at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre as part of the Cardiff Design Festival from the 2 to the 31 October 2011. The work will feature work by all three staff members: Amelia Johnstone: ‘Folk After Auschwitz’ Anna Bhushan: illustrations [...]

Call for Papers: Illustration & Writing

Illustration & Writing: Visual Languages 2nd International Illustration Research Symposium in conjunction with the Writing PAD network. North Wales School of Art & Design, Glyndwr University Thursday 3rd November 2011 “I must Create my own System or be Enslav’d by another Man’s” - WILLIAM BLAKE Following on from Shadow Play in Cardiff in November 2010, [...]

CSAD Illustration Degree Show

Cardiff School of Art & Design’s final year BA Illustration students invite you to their Graduate Show! 17th - 25th June 2011 Morgan Arcade Chambers 1st Floor, Morgan Arcade Cardiff CF10 1AE (just a short walk from Cardiff Central Station) http://cardiffillustration2011.co.uk/

Chris Glynn

Chris Glynn is Programme Director of the BA (Hons) Illustration course at CSAD. Born in Harrow, studied Music & Drama at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; PGCE at University of London Goldsmiths College 1987. From 1990 Chris took his passion for drawing and performance into animation, working as a storyboard and layout artist, character designer [...]

Amelia Johnstone

Born on 7th May 1977 at 12 O’ Clock midday in Chesterfield hospital in Derbyshire. The fourth of six children Amelia spent summers growing up in Dorset and Devon on rivers and in woods playing alone, or playing elaborate games with her siblings, or cousins or imaginary friends. Life was all about imagination then, and [...]

Desdemona McCannon

For as long as I can remember I have juggled ideas as pictures and ideas as words in my mind. Illustration seems to me to be a continual negotiation of these two ways of thinking. Is drawing a form of writing? I think about how children find it easy to describe concepts in line before [...]

Illustration Research Manifesto

“Illustration happens when words are not enough and memory fails.” - Chris Glynn Illustration informs, reminds, enlightens and educates through humour, story, pathos, metaphor and allegory. It is a discipline re-discovering its core and finding new form and purpose. Illustration Research has been established as a new catalyst and crucible of ideas at the forefront [...]

Le Gun #5 Launches

LE GUN #5 is coming out on 1 April 2011 and features work by our very own Amelia Johnstone. Issue #5 will be launched with wild and wonderful party and an exhibition of work by contributors. Images of Amelia’s contributions to Le Gun #5 are posted after the jump. The launch party will take place [...]