This month we are giving away a 3 Illustrator’s Lounge t-shirts to 3 lucky followers. Do you fancy owning a mint white t-shirt baring our trademark inkwell logo? Here is how you can enter.
To win you must simply do two things.
1. Firstly you need to follow either our Facebook fan page or our Twitter (if you are not already following us).
2. Secondly you MUST post a message on either our Facebook page wall or on Twitter using our tag (@the_loungers) proclaiming the following:
“Give me a t-shirt!”
All messages must be in before the 31st of May 2012. 3 winners will be selected and announced on the 1st of June 2012. Then contacted via either Facebook or Twitter and a lovely t-shirt will be sent out to them.
Matt Kevan, who co-runs The Illustration Gallery (a web-based gallery dedicated to exhibiting and promoting illustration of all kinds), got in touch to tell us about their new website, www.illustrato.rs. In his own words:
“I’ve been a follower of your blog for a while now, and I thought that you’d like to know about a new website we’ve launched recently called illustrato.rs, a curated marketplace for illustrators to sell their original artwork and limited edition prints directly to the public.
We’ve launched with seventeen great artists, including Sam Weber, Catell Ronca, Jessie Ford, Lucie Sheridon, Martin Grover and Tom Gauld who I know you’ve featured before.
I think that illustrato.rs is a very useful service which has been missing from the web and will be a fantastic resource for all kinds of illustrators. Please take a look, I hope you like it.”
Well, here at The Lounge we are all about community. So we wish this project every success; with that amazing line up of illustrators it’s off to a great start!
To create a deck of 54 unique playing cards. Artists and illustrators pick a card each and design it in their own style. When all designs are submitted, the deck is printed in a strictly limited number of copies, which are distributed between the members of the project.
Project aims
Create something useful, collectable, pretty and unique. For artists and designers to collaborate on an interesting project and show off their unique style and techniques.
The 2012 Serco Prize for Illustration is underway! Here’s the excerpt from the AOI website:
London Transport Museum, in partnership with the Association of Illustrators (AOI), is delighted to announce that submissions are now welcome for the 2012 Serco Prize for Illustration. This year the theme is Secret London. Entrants are asked to create an illustration that explores a hidden side to the city. Entries can depict little known or unusual aspects of the Capital’s history, culture, characters and communities – past or present. This is an exciting challenge for artists to celebrate a vibrant, multi-layered London in a way it has never been seen before.
The competition is open to students and illustrators throughout the world. The top 50 entries selected by a panel of judges will be displayed in an exhibition at London Transport Museum that will open Tuesday 13 November and run until Monday 10 December 2012. The winners will be announced at a private award ceremony on the evening of Monday 12 November 2012.
The winning entry will appear on Transport for London services as a poster and prizes will be awarded in three levels:
First prize: £2000
Second prize: £1000
Third prize: £750
The deadline for entries is 5.00pm on Friday 6 April 2012.
The Serco Prize for Illustration continues Transport for London’s legacy of design that dates back over 100 years. The Museum’s collection of graphic art is one of the best in the world and includes over 5,000 posters and artworks by famous artists including Man Ray, Paul Nash and Edward McKnight Kauffer.
This is the third year that Serco, who operate the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Docklands Light Railway and the Woolwich Ferry, has supported the competition. All these transport modes provide an opportunity to discover some of the Capital’s ‘secrets’.
Keeping with our manga theme, Hyper Japan is back and promises to be another “Creative, Cool, Cute and Crazy” event. It spans three day, Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February at Brompton Hall, Earls Court. It features anime, manga, art, cosplay, food, fashion, games…and pretty much everything you love about Japan. So if you are looking for something different to do this weekend why not check it out!
Personally, I think this is absolutely shameful behaviour by Marvel and I’m not alone. Read more about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich and his legal battle with Marvel here.
Below is a message from Gary:
“A NOTE TO MY FANS AND SUPPORTERS:
Since the various news agencies and websites have reported the ruling against me on my claims against Marvel in the Ghost Rider lawsuit, and the assessment of a $17,000 judgment against me and my company instead, I have read an amazing amount of comments in my support on the internet, and have received many messages of support directly. Although the reports of my employment situation and financial difficulties as well as problems with my health are unfortunately true, I want to let everyone in the comic book world, especially my supporters and fans of the Ghost Rider character which I invented, created, and wrote, that I am going to appeal the Court’s ruling and continue to fight this as long as I am able and that your support of me means more than you will ever know. I have heard your voices. I thank you with all my heart, and I appreciate your thoughts and best wishes as I soldier on.
Feel free to keep in touch with me via e-mail: fgroovygary@aol.com.”
Fathoms Deep is a new exhibition curated by Zombie Collective. The show will open in May, in London, and they are currently looking for submissions. The theme is nautical, and they are interested in print, digital work, painting and 3D. Their aim is to promote and support new and emerging illustrators, so all entrants must be recent graduates, from 2009 onwards.
All submissions need to be entered by Friday 10th February 2012 (so hurry!) and you can find all the full brief and how to get in touch here.
