Varoom Magazine: the Journal of Illustration and Made Images

Varoom Magazine the Journal of Illustration and Made Images
Varoom - the journal of illustration and made images is the AOI's new magazine launching this May celebrating and commenting on the illustrated image in today's vibrant visual culture.

Varoom features interviews with leading illustrators and image-makers and explores the attitude behind their designs.

The magazine will look at influential movements in illustration and why they have succeeded in making a statement.

An archive section will concentrate on different figures and schools of illustration, while the new voices section will showcase emerging talent.

Regular features from acclaimed design critics and practitioners such as Steven Heller will discuss contemporary illustration in its wider context and from different, even contentious, perspectives. Varoom will also review noteworthy exhibitions, events and publications.

A stimulating line-up of interviews, profiles, and polemic launch the first issue, which includes Emily King reviewing The Guardian's adventurous use of illustration; a survey of the contemporary illustration and image-making scene by John O'Reilly; an in depth interview with designer/illustrator Dan Fern; Steven Heller's intriguing insight into the commissioning process and why it's a joy working with Christoph Niemann, and Alice Twemlow's investigation into Ed Fella's highly illustrative