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Varoom 21 Rules
VAROOM 21 – Rules Illustration, Culture, Society Spring 2013 Cover illustration created for Varoom by Geneviève Gauckler Purchase here There are Rules to be made and those to be broken. Illustrator Katherina Koall, on creating an image for children’s magazine The Loop, had one important rule – “remember that this was a piece of work for children – [...]
First Hand at Varoom Rules event
Live reportage drawing from the First Hand collective brought a special dimension to the Varoom issue 21 event, Rules, at Foyle’s Bookshop in London. At the sold out panel event on 11 April 2013, Graham Rawle, Viviane Schwarz and Phoebe Halstead discussed their illustration work and how it is exploring new areas and challenging rules. [...]
Podcast – Varoom issue 21 event – Rules!
Varoom held a launch panel event, Rules!, for issue 21 on 11 April 2013 at The Foyles Gallery, London. Illustration Rules?! As illustration becomes ever more varied and diverse in its output and working methods, does it follow any given ‘rules’ or launch itself off down the yellow brick road? To launch Varoom issue 21: Rules, at [...]
Brian Grimwood – People want joy!
Brian Grimwood, esteemed illustrator, Association of Illustrators Patron and illustration agency owner had his monograph, The Man who changed the Look of British Illustration, published in 2012, and a retrospective of his work backed it up at WORK Gallery in London. Here, Brian is interviewed by Varoom editor, John O’Reilly, on his past, his work and what [...]
V21 Noted: Reflections & Process
Reportage It was called “an adrenaline rush like no other!” and “the ultimate theatrical challenge” for the actors, writers, singers, composers and directors in the “The 24 Hour Musicals” event staged at the Old Vic, London in December 2012. The project, directed by actor Kevin Spacey, hosted by Matt Lucas and with special appearances by [...]
LabNotes: Suspended Sea Creatures
Kustaa Saksi describes his work on the amazing 700,000 sheet installation ‘Hello’ for the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2013. The Hello! Show was a talkshow held in the space where guests discussed the Fair’s annual topic from different perspectives and roles. What was the brief? There was no brief, really. I had met [...]
VaroomLab Journal Issue One
Download: VaroomLab_Journal_IssueOne Papers for Boundaries: Making and breaking illustration’s frontiers Issue One contains papers submitted and peer reviewed from the above call for papers for the Plymouth University/VaroomLab Boundaries Illustration symposium held at Plymouth University on 14/15 September 2012. ISSN 2052-1820 Contents: Taste – Dr. John O’Reilly, editor of Varoom magazine, writer and philosopher Rear [...]
Spatialising Illustration Symposium
SPATIALISING ILLUSTRATION a two day symposium Swansea Metropolitan University/VaroomLab 24-25th January 2013 at Swansea Metropolitan University How do we encounter space through illustration? Spatialising Illustration roams beyond illustration as a discipline and explores it as a medium inherent in many artistic activities; a medium that evokes ideas and narrative, and one that offers subtle messages about the spaces and [...]
Labnotes: Illustrating “Home”
Jonathan Ward reveals the thinking behind his Home project to Varoom. Fifty images from different illustrators on separate cards, creating an artist book on this ‘universal theme’. Home as Muse? What made you choose ‘Home’ as the theme for this project? I am fascinated by childhood memories and their resonances in my own work, which [...]