Harper Colins
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
Hammersmith
London
W6 8JB
www.hapercolins.co.uk
contact: Julian Humphries, art director
020 8741 7070
AA Publishing
Fanum House
Basingstoke
RG21 4EA
david.watchus@theaa.com
contact: David Watchus, editor
01256 491 505
Black Swan
61-63 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
London W5 5Sa
www.booksattransworld.co.uk
contact: Claire Ward, art and design director
020 8579 2652
Doubleday
61-63 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
London W5 5SA
www.booksattransworld.co.uk
contact: Claire Ward, art and design director
020 8579 2652
Hemming Group
32 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London SW1V 2SS
www.tecmagazine.co.uk
contact: Emilie Francis, art director
020 7973 6400/4684 (direct)
Little Brown Books
100 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y ODY
duncan.spilling@littlebrown.co.uk
contact: Duncan Spilling, creative Director
020 7911 8000
Manning Partnership
6 The Old Dairy
Melcome Road
Bath BA2 3LR
garry@manning-partnership.co.uk
contact: Garry Manning, managing director
01225 478 444
The Friday Project
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London W6 8JB
corinna.harrod@harpercolins.co.uk
contact: Corinna Harrod, editor
020 8741 7070
Weidenfield
Orion house
5 Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9EA
lucie.stericker@orionbooks.co.uk
contact: Lucie Stericker, creative director
0107240 3444
Crown House
Crown Buildings
Bancyfelin
Carmarthen SA33 5ND
tfitton@crownhouse.co.uk
contact: Thomas Fitton, designer
01267 211 345
My short and sweet visit to London
My visit to London was rather short and sweet sadly due to financial issues so couldn't stay for the whole 3 days but I still found it very rewarding and ended up coming back to Manchester with bags more confidence. I wasn't completely 100% satisfied with my portfolio at the time but I didn't want to let it stop me from going so I bit the bullet and got myself out there. I wish i'd gone with a more substantial set of work like I feel I have now because I think I would've found it much easier to talk about my work and come across as more confident. I arranged a visit with Harper Colins, who were extremely friendly and even though it was rather brief, I felt like i'd achieved something. I spoke to Julian Humphries, the Art Director and he took a liking to my Sinbad the Sailor work. He said it takes a lot of courage for students to come in and sit down and talk about their work, plus it's impressive when someone goes and makes that extra bit of effort to research the company first by finding out names which adds a more personal approach. We didn't discuss my work in too much detail, it was mainly about the Illustrating industry as a whole and I asked him about the sort of things like how do they prefer to view somebody's work. They said they preferred to view a clear, neat online PDF portfolio so they can cut straight to the person's work instead of receiving hoards of parcels of work in the post which I can understand. It comes across as being more professional if the person has their own website and is easy to find online. At the end of the day, they want to be able to quickly flick through the illustrators work, cut to the chase and see if they are capable of producing the work for a specific brief.
As mentioned before, it has only really been in the past month that I've felt tonnes more confident about my work so I have sent my online portfolio to a number of companies, most of them on my client list so i'm awaiting replies. I will post feedback on here once received.
As mentioned before, it has only really been in the past month that I've felt tonnes more confident about my work so I have sent my online portfolio to a number of companies, most of them on my client list so i'm awaiting replies. I will post feedback on here once received.
wolf and little red
I stumbled across Pablo Picasso's 'The Kiss', and i personally think the male figure is being rather forceful. I thought it could fit into the 'sexual awakening' heading that i'm creating 3 different images for so i made my own collagraph version of the wolf and little red riding hood. I wanted to show the sexual attraction between the 2 characters as they share a very different relationship with one another in the Grimms fairytale version.
The cloaks hung up
This is a collagraph image which i printed to represent 'Ritual'. I've though of it as being an ongoing cycle with Little Red constantly going back to Grandma's house....even though she knows it's the wolf that's actually in her grandma's bed. I know it is a bit weird this whole dark side of the story but this is why i find it interesting. The red coat symbolises that she is currently at the house and nothing has happend to her yet whereas the following black coats symbolise death and that she has already been swallowed up. I've repeated the coat just because it is simply a repeat of her going back there.
Jockum Nordstrum
Jo actually introduced me to Nordstrum's work when i was wondering how to combine my main story images with the story elements. They set a scene without looking like a scene at the theatre if that makes sense? I like how its pretty surreal with certain people's missing body parts which add a bit of humour to the image.
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