Counting the levels on which we love illustrator Michelle Thompson's work

Date
22 May 2012

The best thing about sitting round discussing illustrator Michelle Thompson’s work was that everyone found something different in it they loved – the sparing but effective use of colour, the typographic touches and the relevant but not heavy-handed responses to briefs were among the qualities we flagged up.

Of course the RCA graduate doesn’t need us to tell her how wonderful she is, having worked with the BBC, Penguin Books, The Guardian, Creative Review, and Angus Hyland of Pentagram, plus she illustrates a weekly column for The Globe & Mail in Toronto.

But why not add our voice to the multitude as her combination of traditional collage making and digital techniques produces work that is interesting, exciting and great to look at. She recently beat off stiff competition to scoop the Double Identity customised shoe design contest proving that she can turn her talents to pretty much anything.

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Michelle Thompson: Cloud Management for Cio magazine

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Michelle Thompson: Electricity for Alberta Venture

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Michelle Thompson: Teen Adult for The Globe & Mail

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Michelle Thompson: Parisian Pools for Metropolitan Magazine

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Michelle Thompson: Brussels for Metropolitan Magazine

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Michelle Thompson: Brussels for Metropolitan Magazine

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Michelle Thompson: Raining

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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