Remember, remember…the British Cartoon Archive?
Posted by Ken in Illustration on 04. Nov, 2008 | No Comments
According to the BCA’s website…
The British Cartoon Archive is getting a major facelift!
Visit us at www.cartoons.ac.uk after 5 November 2008 to use our new, updated website.
A grant by the Joint Information Systems Committee is not only enabling the BCA to digitise the Carl Giles archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and [...]
Google Chrome – the graphic novel!
Posted by Ken in Illustration, Tech on 11. Sep, 2008 | No Comments
Scott McCloud has illustrated an online comic to help promote Google’s new browser technology, called Google Chrome.
I’m not going to suddenly change tack, and become a tech blog, extolling the merits of new software. Instead I’ll briefly explain why I think the online comic is an important move.
Firstly, it helps put illustration-as-a-marketing-tool back on the [...]
Back in the day 2
Posted by Ken in Comment, Illustration on 31. Jul, 2008 | 3 Comments
…and here’s another, albeit from the early 90s. Vauxhall’s agency were promoting the Vauxhall Cavalier Mk3 by pointing out it’s futuristic range of features. They produced an A4 gatefold brochure with lovely illustrations to the outside, with photos and diagrams to the inside.
To highlight just how mind-boggling the car was they used retro illustrations in [...]
Back in the day 1
Posted by Ken in Comment, Illustration on 23. Jul, 2008 | No Comments
Does anyone remember when marketing budgets allowed for decent photography and illustration? Go back far enough and we’ll find that restrictive or low-quality print processes demanded that illustrations be used, rather than photography. In this halcyon era the general illustrator was king; often deemed to be of equal professional standing to the architect.
In a change [...]
