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In The Spotlight: Sarah Coleman

Posted Monday, 03 August, 2009 by Pete Underhill

Sarah Coleman is an illustrator and lettering artist living and working in Hinckley has several pieces of news to share...

First up, I did the July 4th Fireworks poster campaign for Macy's in New York. The legendary celebrations sponsored by the 'world's biggest department store' were extra-special this year - the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Mannahattan.

In June I put my new website online. It's a beauty! Weeks and weeks of researching, designing and planning went into it. You can now do the blog, buy stuff and plunder my sketchbooks all in one place - www.inkymole.com

My latest set of tattoos are ready, and waiting to get to their new homes! A reminder of the tattoo project: they're free on condition you send us hi-res photos of you (or someone you know) wearing them.

I've joined the gang at Central Illustration Agency, London. I'm totally delighted to be among some of my illustration heroes at an industrial-strength agency.

Finally there's a new prize named after me at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. This week the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, from whence I carved my degree in illustration, rang to tell me they were naming their new annual illustration prize after me. My first thought was, 'Oh, my God, how wonderful', followed immediately by 'Don't you have to be dead to have a prize named after you?' Well not so, it seems. I was not only a student there but have taught there on and off for over sixteen years, delivering seminars, workshops, Q&A sessions and just good old-fashioned illustration tutoring. So perhaps it isn't so surprising, and I am, of course, completely floored to be asked.

Damn - I wish I'd had the Sarah Coleman Prize when I graduated! 'Must try harder'...