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  Laura Carlin lives and works in London. She is a graduate from Buckinghamshire University and the Royal College of Art, where she received a Masters and won the Quentin Blake Award.   She was awarded the Uniqlo Fashion Illustration Award and a V&A Award and an honourable mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Award.   In November 2014 another Walker Books title illustrated by Laura ‘The Promise’ was selected by The New York Times as the best illustrated title of 2014.      An established illustrator, who's family thought that her career will mean painting photo realistic paintings of cats. During her university years, she was faced with the task of getting out of sketchbooks with her drawings, however she felt too close with them. One of the examples of her closeness to sketchbooks was a project with the Japanese Embassy. Carlin has approached several embassies with an idea, that she will document...

 The first week back at university provided us with a challenge exhibition at The Kosmonaut Bar in Northern Quarters, Manchester.  Faced with limited colour palette, we were tasked to create a quality piece of work, developed from the summer project and refined to the best standards.  We rushed into the pace of work and dealt with it quite well, if I may say so, although we were stalled for a day due to the printer failure. Thankfully, our Managing Team (J, Y, C, and S) were up for it and able to find a professional printing service.                                        The exhibition 'Chrome' run from 22nd Sept to 26th Sept.                                    I think that while the experience was needed and useful, it also made us think of different v...