AOI at Pick Me Up AOI were welcomed new members at the annual Pick Me Up fair at Somerset House. We had a stand on the lower floor, where staff could inform attendees about benefits..
Empathy – the new Varoom The new issue of Varoom is now published. Free for AOI members, but available through the AOI Shop and selected bookstores, Varoom is the only magazine to track how illustration..
Marian Bantjes in Varoom 25 Marian Bantjes creates a complex, fascinating and often humourous centrespread image for each issue of Varoom, often forming three dimensional works which she photographs prior to publication. For issue 25..
Varoom 25: Phoebe Gloeckner and J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition Varoom 25 on the theme of empathy includes an extensive feature article by Adrian Holme on the extraordinary work of illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner for the Re/search edition of J.G. Ballard’s..
AOI AGM tonight The 2014 Annual General Meeting is to be held this evening, and AOI warmly invites all members to attened. The meeting will be held at 6.30 pm at The Coningsby..
Authoriality, Copies, and Image-Makers in the Age of 3D Reproduction Continuing the Obsession theme of Varoom 25, Pablo Soler-Jones examines our changing relationship with the image in the digital age, in a review of the paperback release of Double: Storefront..
Varoom 24: Five Things We Learned About Obsession With the release of the new issue of Varoom on the theme of Obsession, Varoom Editor John O’Reilly, reveals five things he learned about images, image-makers and Obsession
Gold Prize Winner of The Serco Prize for Illustration: Gill Bradley Artist and title: Gill Bradley for Monkey Band at large in Notting Hill 1927 Medium: Digital Story: In 1927 an escaped Monkey Jazz band embarked on days of high jinks..
Silver Prize Winner of The Serco Prize for Illustration: Nicholas Stevenson Artist and title: Nicholas Stevenson for Frost Fair Medium: Digital, Paint, Collage Story: The River Thames froze solid 24 times between 1408 and 1814. Sometimes it lasted long enough to..
Bronze Prize Winner of the Serco Prize for Illustration: Eric Chow Artist and title: Eric Chow for The Lady Bridge Medium: Digital Story: Waterloo Bridge was reconstructed mostly by women during the war in 1945 while men were doing national service…