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101 Airplanes 101 Ballpoint Pens, a series of posters documenting airplanes in different pens
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Illustration for the Opéra National de Paris
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Book jacket design for Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man by Penguin Books
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Illustration for the World of Interiors
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Developmental work for ‘Sleeping Beauty’
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One of a series of 12 books covers for Picador Shots
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Illustration for Bill Bryson – Tales from a Small Island
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A series of limited edition postcards for Heart Artists’ Agent
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Venice sketchbook 2009
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A series of 12 Images inspired by the book Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Roderick Mills
Guest Posting 1 - 5 February 2010
Award winning illustrator and film maker Roderick Mills has worked across the breadth of the creative industry including editorial, publishing, corporate literature, and advertising for various international clients such as the BBC, The National Theatre, Bloomsbury, Opéra National de Paris, The Design Museum, Royal Mail, The New York Times. He has exhibited in both London and New York and is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton. A graduate of the RCA he has one of those styles that is often copied but rarely looks as good.
What have you got planned this week?
Two train journeys to Brighton, where I teach. Drawings for clients, drawings for myself, drawings of the enchanted forest. Photography, maybe some filming.
A private view, an exhibition or two…
What do your parents think you do?
They know that I am an illustrator without really knowing what it entails. They understand the teaching aspect of my career… it’s more tangible for them.
What’s your favourite sense?
Apart from the obvious one of sight, I suppose smell.
Who do you look like?
The last person mentioned to me was the actor William Hurt. I think that it was more in reference to the hair style… mine had not been cut for a while?
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
At the age of 17 I became a qualified ballroom dance teacher. It was something that my parents did, so I had to go along too. The only way to get out of it I thought was to take all of the exams until… there were none more & I didn’t have to go again!
Did your education count?
At the age of 8 I won a national painting competition, but at 18 I failed my art ‘A’ level? Going to the RCA made sense of everything for me.
What word can’t you spell?
I use a dictionary?
Tell us a good fact
London is apparently the fourth largest Swedish city… by population?
What’s Next?
An Italian wife & family!
What’’s your ‘Plan B’?
Become a fisherman in Sicily.
Guest Posts
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Joe King & Rosie Pedlow
- Guest posted by Roderick Mills 1 February 2010
Joint winners of the inaugural Jerwood Prize for Moving Image, Folk//Projects latest work deals with Britiain’s most famous UFO mystery. When in 1980 American servicemen stationed at an RAF base, witnessed some ‘unexplained lights’ in Rendlesham Forest. A beautifully shot film exploring strange lights. The film has it’s international premier at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France this month.
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James Pyman
- Guest posted by Roderick Mills 2 February 2010
An exhibition of James Pyman’s illustrated edition of Dracula published by Four Corners Familiars. Pencil drawings extending the original concept of the illustrations depicting objects & landscapes mentioned by the characters in Dracula.
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Ori Gersht
- Guest posted by Roderick Mills 3 February 2010
The latest exhibition by artist Ori Gersht comprise of photographs from two bodies of work, Evaders dealing with the escape route taken by those fleeing Nazi
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Neo Rauch
- Guest posted by Roderick Mills 4 February 2010
During a conversation with the illustrator Luke Best we both simultaneously mentioned the book ‘Works on Paper’ by Neo Rauch as one of the most inspiring things we had seen. It gives me that visceral desire to draw more!
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Michael Haneke / The White Ribbon
- Guest posted by Roderick Mills 5 February 2010
A beautifully shot film. A remote village in northern Germany 1913 beset by malice & spite…
