 Images is the UK's leading illustration competition, annual, awards show, and touring exhibition dedicated to showcasing the very best contemporary illustration published in the UK.
Images is unique in that it is Britain's only jury-selected illustration competition, judged by a highly regarded panel of industry experts, spanning multiple categories.
The annual celebrates illustration excellence and is distributed to a specially targeted list of international commissioners and sold worldwide.
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Varoom 12 sees the Future
Varoom 12 is now available. This new issue offers an intriguing glimpse into The Future, with a 21st Century Zodiac written by cultural commentator Paul Morley and illustrated with twelve beautiful, mysterious and illuminating pictures.
This is an extract from ‘The Sign of Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes’, “The conquering of the planet by all that is fake, plastic and profoundly trivial, the need to be known, to be cared for, to be paid attention to, to dress up, to pass through, to attend parties, to be seen, to be talked about, to know nothing.” Other 21st Century Zodiacs include ‘The Sign of the Banking Crisis’ and ‘The Sign of the War on Terror’, and some of the Zodiac illustrators include Otto, Cristina Couciero, Quickhoney, Francis Frances, Antti Uotila and Si Scott.
Also inside, the Future is Junk looks at collage makers and their collecting habits, illustrators imagine life 40 years from now in Life in 2050, Oliver Jeffers tells us ‘I wish I’d Done This’ and comic book artist, illustrator and film-maker, Dave Mckean, reveals Something Old, Something New...
Notebook is packed with reviews and shorter articles, and it’s all wrapped up with a fantastic exclusive cover from collage illustrator James Dawe.
It’s enough to make you want to jump into the Tardis!
AOI Portfolios
AOI Portfolios have been developed by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) to promote illustration to the creative industries. Launched in 2003, we currently feature the portfolios of over 600 artists covering a broad spectrum of styles, techniques and specialisms. The Portfolios are managed by the individual artists themselves so the content is regularly changing as new images are added to the site. read more - view now!
Varoom Lab - Illustration, Culture, Society
 Varoom Lab is a website that has been created for our Varoom Lab partners to discuss illustration issues, conduct college projects, submit illustration research papers for peer group review and subsequently, as a resource for publication in the magazine and website.
The website has three parts:
- Private, where a college may conduct a project under the tutelage of a Professor prior to a piece being considered for peer group review.
- Private, where pieces can be reviewed by participating peers in the group.
- Public, where articles will be published and viewed by anyone interested in the art of illustration.
In the first instance, the public part of the website features downloadable articles from past issues of Varoom until such time as the partners submissions can be prepared for publication on the site.
For non-partners, there is a wealth of Varoom archives to download as PDFs.
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Pro-Action Petition!
 Your creativity is an asset. And there are many ways to make the most of it – to exploit it, some might say.
Making a living from illustration isn’t getting any easier. Negotiating the pitfalls of bad contracts and exploitative small print can sometimes make it seem like a fool’s game.
Luckily, awareness of the problem is growing, and you are not alone. Far from it, in fact – we’re here to help.
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