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This summer we’re taking inspiration from Enid Marx and celebrating popular art. We want to see your drawings and photographs of all the weird and wonderful collectable – and not so collectable – objects that enrich our lives as people and as illustrators. Enid Marx - popular art 6 (c) Enid Marx

Our guide to how you can get involved as a family in illustration this summer... Activity sheets, workshops and illustrating ice cream this summer

We have a new neighbour - for one weekend only! Finnish artist Katriina Haikala's four-year art project sees her aiming to draw some 1,000 live portraits across the globe. Each model is a person who identifies as a woman, and Katriina draws her subjects without looking at her sketches. She tells us about her project, which has brought her to King's Cross... katriina 10 Katriina Haikala

Jonny Hannah’s Darktown Taxi, a real-life illustrated car, is on display outside House of Illustration all summer. The artist tells the story of how it came to be here... car and banjo © Jonny Hannah

In the first in our series of videos featuring interviews with those with a unique perspective on the work of Enid Marx we hear from Graham Moss of Incline Press... Encounters with Enid Marx - Graham Moss

Help us illustrate the first ever ice cream recipe to be published in English, for the chance to win a pair of free tickets to House of Illustration and to SCOOP: A Wonderful Ice Cream World this summer. Mary Eales’ original 1718 recipe explaining how ‘to ice cream’

In the second in our series of videos featuring interviews with those with a unique perspective on the work of Enid Marx we hear from Enid's friend Ann Sutton... Ann Sutton on Enid Marx

Ahead of Sketchmeet next week we catch up with our guest host Joey Yu, who shares advice for recent graduates and explains how she developed her own multidisciplinary practice... Joey Yu (c) Joey Yu

The Warner Textile Archive holds a diverse range of textile designs, from handwoven nineteenth-century Spitalfields silks to sixties psychedelic screen prints. Here, archivist Hannah Auerbach George takes us up close to the Enid Marx textiles in this unique collection and explains how they came to be there... Textile, Spot and Bar. 1920s. Designed by Enid Marx, Hand printed cotton. © Textile Archive (Braintree, England)

Ahead of our Professional Development Day, our Visitor Services Manager shares her tips for illustrators looking to approach retailers with their work... HOI shop (c) Paul Grover

Ahead of Yellowzine Live next week, we catch up with the co-founder and editor of this independent visual art zine celebrating BAME talent. Yellowzine Issue 1 (c) Yellowzine

With House of Illustration’s Summer Fair back just around the corner, we take a peek at how some of our illustrators are preparing for the big day... Eflyer

Refugee Week takes place every year across the world in the week around World Refugee Day on the 20 June. We're getting involved by sharing videos by some of the artists included in Journeys Drawn: Illustration from the Refugee Crisis, our forthcoming exhibition telling refugee stories, both observed and experienced first-hand. page banner - refugees week

We recently launched two vibrantly illustrated leperollo booklets as a result of outreach projects with Hackney and Camden primary schools. Here, we go behind the scenes to find out how they were made... two combined

The largest ever sale of Quentin Blake’s work will take place at Christie’s from 3-12 July (c) Quentin Blake

Ahead of our Illustration Summer Fair, our Visitor Services Manager shares her tips for illustrators selling their work at fairs... Illustrators Summer Fair on Sunday 9 July at House of Illustration (4)

Last week was Volunteers' Week. We thought it would be a good time to catch up with some of the illustrators who volunteer in the gallery - and to have a peek at some of the work they will be selling at our Fair on Saturday 30 June... DSC_0446_Edit small (c) Aurore Swithenbank

Join us for a day of illustration at the Hay Festival this June Hay Festival Wales (c) Elisabeth Broekaert

Many of the dedicated volunteers here at House of Illustration, fit their commitment to us around their freelance work as illustrators. Some of their talent finds its way into the Volunteers' Sketchbook. For Volunteers' Week (1-7 June) we take a peek at a selection... 2

Our Illustrator in Residence spends her life in London’s galleries. Here, we bring together some of the paintings that have served as references for the large-scale pencil drawings Christy has made over her six months at House of Illustration. Christy and Giotto