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Learning is at the heart of what we do here at House of Illustration. Our new video takes you through our education mission to build confidence and art skills in school pupils and teachers, adults and families... education video

John Vernon Lord, whose original series inspired our September Drawing a Day Challenge, selects his winner and runners-up... Sojung Kim-McCarthy (1)

Ahead of our talk and book signing with Lauren Child, Jessie Burton and Angela Barrett, we hear from the women behind this new book published by Bloomsbury. Angela Barrett Sketch (c) Angela Barrett

We challenged you to draw an inch-sized drawing every day throughout September. Here are the results! Click on the images to enlarge them and see who they are by. A P Payal

We challenged you to draw an inch-sized drawing every day throughout September. Here are the results! Click on the images to enlarge them and see who they are by. Fiona Thomson

We challenged you to draw an inch-sized drawing every day throughout September. Here are the results! Click on the images to enlarge them and see who they are by. Kara Campbell

We challenged you to draw an inch-sized drawing every day throughout September. Here are the results! Click on the images to enlarge them and see who they are by. Padma Malini

And we're delighted to announce that John Vernon Lord, whose inch-sized drawings inspired our Drawing a Day Challenge, is to judge the competition! (c) Fawa Shah

It's day 20 of the challenge and to celebrate everyone's hard work we're featuring 50 of our favourites - a very small selection of some of the many beautiful, miniature works that you've been sharing with us. Remember, we will be featuring all 30 images of everyone who completes the Drawing a Day Challenge at the end of the month, so keep up the excellent work! (c) Amy Bogard

Selected highlights from the first few days of the challenge. Blake Gore

This September we’re challenging you to do a drawing every day. The twist? They have to be just one inch big. A drawing a day

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

We asked you to illustrate the first ever ice cream recipe 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. Winning entry by Zara Wilkins © (c) Zara Wilkins

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)