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An illustration of a city street with tall, stylised buildings in shades of yellow, cream and grey. Small figures of people and cars are scattered across the scene, including a bright orange van.

Illustration: More illustration from Laura Carlin to remind you that you're human

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Date
3 September 2013

How’s this for some brilliant and yet innately human illustration? Since studying at the Royal College of Art Laura has drawn for a whole host of publications including Vogue, The Guardian and The Independent, and is a dab hand with a chunk of clay too, as her ceramics go to show (we featured a couple back in 2011). It’s her illustration that gets us going though. Honing in on a single melancholy gaze or the panic-stricken faces of a whole airplane full of passengers, Laura’s ability to convey a plethora of emotion through the smallest of marks is not to be sniffed at, combining childlike naivety with a sentimental awareness which had led her to this treasure chest full of lovely work. More please Laura!

An illustration of the interior of a plane, where passengers sit in green seats with white sheets of paper covering their faces. A flight attendant in a blue uniform walks down the aisle while a digital sign above reads “LANDING”.
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A painting of figures on horseback galloping through a white stone archway. The scene is set against a textured orange background with a few dark, stylised trees.
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An illustration of two people sitting at a desk. One person, seen from behind, wears a white top and glasses, while the other sits opposite them, covering their ears with their hands.
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An illustration of a person standing in a room before a wall covered in portraits of different hairstyles. A black salon chair and a dark cabinet sit in the foreground on a tiled floor.
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An illustration of a person standing in a room, seen from behind as they look into a mirror. They wear a light blue top and a blue skirt that is pulled back to reveal red and white polka-dot underwear. A black cat sits on a grey rug in the foreground.
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An illustration of three people sitting at a white table, each drinking from a glass with a straw. They are rendered in a soft, textured style against a pale yellow background.
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Maisie Skidmore

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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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