Varoom 32 is now published

Regular Readers of Varoom will recognise our on-going fascination with the ideas, technologies and issues that illustrators face in the rapidly-changing creative businesses. We thought we’d gather and focus some of that through the theme of this issue – The New – seeking out the new practices and tools that illustrators are working with.

So this issue features stories on: illustrators using social media; on turning a book project into an app; and an incredibly compelling Virtual Reality project. We also fold into this issue the broader question of how to think in new ways about illustration practice? Keen-eyed readers might remember the comment by Michael Salu, in the Varoom 19 Taste issue asking whether, as a medium, illustration, “might need to do more than vocationalise aesthetics.” Illustration can put imagery to work in the service of clients, but illustrators can do more.

Varoom 32 is available through the AOI Shop