The editor and founder of the magazine, which celebrates its 10th year, went through the idea behind the children's magazine and the whole art direction which they followed, having a strong ethos to be fun and colourful whilst also being informative and educational, having an individual theme for each issue. For example issues such as 'Tudors', 'Friendship' and 'Inventions', the magazine has, in more recent issues, chosen to publish more philosophical themes such as dreams, courage and happiness.
Each issue is bright and bold to catch the eye but also unhindered by gender focus, its main priority is to appeal to children, creating a new innovative, exciting cover for each issue. For each issue they bring in a new illustrator to design the cover and to illustrate within on the stories, some which were mentioned during the talk are:
Super Mundane-
SuperMundane - an illustrator from London. Often using bright colours and shapes, supermundane recently produced a piece for Leeds City Train Station which is on show above the platforms.
Lauren Humphrey - Recently graduated Illustrator based in London. Her style perfectly suits the aesthetic of ANORAK magazine, bright bold illustrations. For someone still young she boasts an impressive list of clients who she has worked for such as ANORAK, the new york times, the guardian and more.
The Editor of the magazine pointed out a number of different stories published within, specifically ones which she loved her self. One for example is the 'Jim and Jam' story, the illustrations within this spread is very neat and visually pleasing, one which I thoroughly enjoyed seeing.
The editor also discussed an upcoming event happening at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on the 1st and 2nd of April this year, called the Drawing Imaginarium, a family event which will run a number of workshops with illustrators from the ANORAK magazine running them. I want to visit this event and see how these creatives work and what I can learn from them.
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