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The 2012 Serco Prize for Illustration |
Blackfriars Bridge by Mike Stones
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'.
ENTER COMPETITION HERE
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Varoom 17 takes on the world |
 The new Varoom 17 investigates illustration in the emerging economies of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – with interesting insights and a wealth of imagery.
With cover artwork by Cuban American, Edel Rodriquez, combining elements from these countries, Varoom 17 looks out across the world, commenting on Culture Vs Commerce in China, where Alan Male discovers the faultlines in Chinese commercial image-making as the economy booms. Will a new illustration community emerge? Brazil’s Eduardo Recife is interviewed on his collaged illustrations that give the bright, upbeat and vintage, a twist of the modern, downbeat and alienated.
The Bollywood hand-painted film poster is revealed to be far from dead, with a whole new global audience in the digital age, as recognition of the craft value of painted posters and the whole tradition surrounding it drives this apparent renaissance.
Contemporary Russian illustration is a rich mix of Soviet era modernism and pre-Soviet republic folk styles. Varoom talks to Russian illustrator Victor Melamed about irony, dialectics and Winnie the Pooh
Marian Bantjes’ new centre spread for Varoom beautifully describes a possible small scale future for humans, and Paul Davis takes on Globalisation whilst imagining Vlad The Impaler on Linked-In showing his portfolio of recent projects.
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Ronald Searle 1920 - 2011 |
Portrait of Ronald Searle by Andrea Liggins
Ronald Searle, who died on 30 December 2011, was an illustrator extraordinaire. Born in Cambridge, 1920, he saw many changes and witnessed human behaviour at it’s worst. This gave him a unique way of visually interpreting our world. Superlative drawing skill was coupled with strong ideas, and powerful and often humourous assessments of the human character.
Searle drew from when he was a young child, and by 15 was doing a weekly cartoon for the Cambridge Evening News. Called up for duty in 1939, he was captured by the Japanese in 1942, enduring three years of imprisonment and hard labour. Determined to record what the prisoners were suffering – although forbidden - he would hide his drawings under the bodies of cholera victims as the guards were too afraid of the disease to search there.
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 The AOI is pleased to announce the selected entries for the Images 36 Publication.
Full details click here.
Congratulations to all those who have been selected this year! |
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AOI welcomes new Managing Director, Heng Khoo |
 Heng Khoo took over as the Managing Director of the AOI on 1st December 2011.
His previous role was Director of Development for Commissions East, the public art development agency for the East of England. Other recent senior posts include Director (Maternity Leave cover) at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre and Operations Director at
Asia House. |
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AOI Portfolios - New Facebook Page |
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 We've just launched our Facebook page at AOI Portfolios. We'll be keeping visitors updated with general site news and the latest image uploads from our illustrator subscribers. Do look in if you have a moment and if you have a Facebook account yourself please 'like' us!
Thanks to Jonathan Burton for allowing us to use his image as our profile pic.
Visit AOI Portfolios on Facebook
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 D&AD celebrates and nurtures outstanding work in design and advertising. This year’s Awards mark their 50th anniversary.
D&AD is about brilliant commercial creativity, wherever and however it's produced. Whether you work in Design, Advertising or Digital there’s an awards category for you.
25 specialist juries mean that the top people in each specific field judge and award the work according to D&AD's set criteria.
The entry fees provide the funds for our international Education programmes, supporting and developing the future generations of creative talent.
The Yellow Pencil is recognised the world over as a symbol of the very highest creative achievement. Last year D&AD added the ‘Slice’ to honour those who are awarded at Nomination and In Book level. This year, as every year, the D&AD Annual will showcase the best work, providing an invaluable and unrivalled source of creative inspiration.
A Journey through Time, Design, Space and Advertising
To mark the 50th anniversary D&AD invite you to join them on a Journey Through Time, Design, Space and Advertising. Starting in 1962 you will voyage through our extensive Annual archive to showcase 49 of some of the very best shortlisted works from our first 50 years.
One new piece of work is revealed every weekday for the entire duration of the 2012 Award submission window.
Deadline for entries: 1 February 2012
Enter D&AD Awards 2012 |
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