Varoom – Illustration, Culture, Society
What unites haute couture and political posters?
Uptown luxury department store window-dressing and downtown graffiti art?
Retail packaging and computer games?
The 21st Century has chosen illustration to be its defining art form, and Varoom is the perfect platform. The award-winning contemporary illustration magazine, relaunchs this summer with a fantastic new design and expanded editorial content.
Varoom will continue to report and comment on the contemporary ‘illustrated’ image in modern society, featuring interviews with illustrators, image-makers and designers and revealing critical articles on different aspects of contemporary illustration by
leading commentators.
Varoom tracks the very latest in the world of illustration, discovering the new styles, exploring the world of illustrators and the people who commission them, digging deep into the big social, political and cultural ideas expressed in current illustration. Showing the most exciting, provocative, moment-defining work, and revealling the creative and human stories
behind it.
Varoom is edited by journalist, copywriter and writer John O’Reilly and art directed and designed by highly-regarded design team Studio Fernando Gutiérrez.
Varoom awards/annuals
2009
AIGA Annual Design Awards
Issues 06, 07 & 08 of Varoom have been selected for 2009’s AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Annual Design Awards. Not only will these issues be on display at the AIGA National Design Center in New York but they will also travel to AIGA chapters, student groups and galleries throughout the United States in 2010. They will also become part of the AIGA's Design Archives which are housed at the Denver Art Museum
Type Directors Club
Varoom 6, 7 & 8 (entered as a series) won an 'Award of Typographic Excellence' at the New York TDC (Type Directors Club) and will therefore also be part of a travelling design exhibition as well as the annual book.
STEP Design 100 Annual
Varoom 05, 06 and 07 have also been chosen for the STEP Design 100 Annual. STEP is also a US-based design magazine. Each year just 100 pieces of outstanding design work are chosen from thousands of entries. The annual was in March 2009.
2008
Communication Arts Design Annual
Communication Arts is a US-based magazine. They hold annual design, illustration, advertising, photography and interactive competitions throughout the year. Varoom 05 was chosen for the 49th Design Annual. More details can be found at www.commarts.com http://www.commarts.com
www.stepinsidedesign.com/100
Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Awards 2008
Dubbed the design world's answer to the Turner prize by the Guardian, the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards and Exhibition celebrates the most innovative and progressive international designs of the last twelve months.
Nominated by a team of internationally respected design experts including Nick Knight, Philipp Rode and Wayne Hemmingway, the comprehensive short list recognises the best designs in seven categories: Architecture, Furniture, Graphics, Product, Transport, Fashion and Interactive Design. Varoom has been selected for the best in Graphics category, a testament to the award-winning talents of the magazine’s designer’s Non-Format.
The inaugural Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum ran from 13 February until 27 April 2008.
2007
Selected for The Creative Review Annual
Selected for D&AD Annual
Short-listed for the Design Week Awards
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