Work/Life 2

by Janine Vangool (Editor)

“BEING A PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR IS A FULL-TIME JOB THAT GOES BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM NINE-TO-FIVE: TOUGH DEADLINES MEAN WORKING THROUGH THE NIGHT. FLASHES OF INSPIRATION CAN HAPPEN ANYTIME, SO YOUR SKETCHBOOK IS AN INDISPENSABLE APPENDAGE. YOU MIGHT SPEND INNUMERABLE HOURS SECLUDED IN YOUR STUDIO, OR PERHAPS YOU’RE A REGULAR AT THE LOCAL COFFEESHOP. CHANCES ARE, YOUR WORK AND YOUR LIFE ARE ONE AND THE SAME AND YOU WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY.”

A follow-up to our successful first edition, Work/Life 2 features 100 professional illustrators from around the world.

224 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Janine Vangool is the publisher, editor and designer of UPPERCASE, a quarterly print magazine for the creative and curious. UPPERCASE publishes content inspired by design, typography, illustration and craft. Her magazine and books celebrate the process of making, the commitment to craft and the art of living creatively. Janine got her start working as a freelance graphic designer for arts and culture clients and has also taught typography and publication design at the college level. She has been a shop owner and bookseller, gallery curator, sold a line of greeting cards wholesale, made 10,000 books by hand (with lots of help!) and has sewn her own products for retail. She has a particular fondness for typewriters, a passion inspired a book about their graphic history. She has designed two fabric collections with Windham Fabrics. She is often asked, “Do you ever sleep?” To which she replies, “Yes! By the end of the day I’m exhausted!” She lives in Calgary, Canada with her boardgame-designing husband and curious son.

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