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Join us for a day of illustration at the Hay Festival this June Hay on Wye small

We hosted the Design Museum's weekly celebration of typography on a theme, telling the design stories behind some of the food tin labels on display in Made In North Korea: Everyday Graphic Design from the DPRK. Our thanks to all who shared their own food tin favourites from around the world... House of Illustration 2

Ahead of our talk this month with comics expert Paul Gravett, we get up close to a North Korean comic. collection of Nicholas Bonner, courtesy of Phaidon

A year-long, international illustration exchange between the UK, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Two leporellos from Latvia

We get up close to some of the posters on display in our current exhibition. More variety and quality for consumer goods... Let's fulfill the People's needs! Hand-painted (2008) (c) Collection of Nicholas Bonner, image: Justin Piperger

Before her drawings left the studio to be framed, we visited our Illustrator in Residence to take a peak at some of the work on show in Christy Burdock: The People in the Gallery. Here, she explains some of the thinking behind it… Christy - studio

Highlights from a night of conversation with artist Lucinda Rogers Stallholder © Lucinda Rogers

Inspired by our current exhibition on gentrification, pupils used illustration to document their local market in Dalston. Our Schools and Families Producer, Grace Attlee, tells us about the project. Princess May Primary School pupils with Lucinda Rogers at House of Illustration

We have a winner! Plus an excellent shortlist and this year's People's Choice Award winning entry... Max - three (c) Max Löffler

We've been delighted to welcome work experience student Tasnia (aged 14) to the team. In her final week, she reflects on our current exhibition Lucinda Rogers: On Gentrification and on how it relates to her own experience of growing up in East London. Red yellow and green landscape 50x70cm © Lucinda Rogers

We're thrilled to bring you news of our exhibitions for the coming year Arrows of Love © Quentin Blake

Last year, we received the generous donation from Quentin Blake of two preparatory sketches for Edward Bawden’s illustrated edition of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, published by the Folio Society in 1965. Our former PhD placement student Fiona Dakin gives us an introduction to the two beautiful works... Edward Bawden, Gulliver’s Travels rough sketch

With our popular Illustrating Places back for January 2018, we take a look at some of the glorious work produced by past course participants. (c) Glynis Yexley

Introducing this year's Book Illustration Competition guest judge, Sherlock Holmes expert Helen Dorey. A selection of winning entries from previous years

With just under a month to go until the deadline for our 2018 competition, we take a look at last year's winning entry by Darya Shnykina, which has just been published by The Folio Society. Mansfield Park published 1 (c) The Folio Society

Tweet us your Christmas illustrations for the chance to win a pair of tickets to House of Illustration... Christy Christmas card 1 © (c) Christy Burdock

Ahead of our fundraising auction at Sotheby's, Shaun Tan tells us the story behind his choice of classic novel. The work will be on display at Sotheby's as one of 33 original book-jacket creations by leading contemporary artists. (c) Shaun Tan

Our volunteers have been busy hand-making festive wrapping paper here at Illustration HQ - and it's now on sale in our shop! 3

Sheri Gee, Art Director at the Folio Society and one of the judges of the Book Illustration Competition, explains how to make your entry tip-top... BIC2018-727 (1)

Artists include Peter Blake, Raymond Pettibon, Maggie Hambling, Paula Rego, Rob Ryan, Gerald Scarfe, Richard Wentworth and Quentin Blake. Image: Shaun Tan's cover for Animal Farm by George Orwell