Please read this overview for any questions that you may have. Please feel free to check out post a comment on our blog or email me for any further updates.
Feel free to check out each other on the ISB Flickr page or Facebook group page. We also have YouTube channel. The purpose will be for artists to have a place to send in short videos of the place that they will be representing or at least a description of it. You can also show your artistic process. The You Tube video will be posted within 24 hours of receiving it.
A sketchbook will be sent from Northern VA to 50 illustrators/designers around the world. Each artist in a new country must put their design in the sketchbook and send it on to the next person in the next country. The book will start its rotation in April 3rd 2009 and be returned back to Northern VA after the last entry has been made. Each artist will have 7 days to complete their assigned 4 pages. You will be notified once the book is in route to you and provided the information of the next artist.
Each artist has 7 days to complete the 4 pages assigned to you. Feel free to decorate the outside of the book, and case as you see fit also. Feel free to check out each other on the ISB Flickr page.
To sign up for the project simply e-mail me your full name, the country you will be representing, actual address, and a phone number to thebsidedesign@gmail.com . I will not share any of this information with anybody. This information is to be used to create a shipping list. I would also like a link to your portfolio, blog or sharing account like Flickr.
The first 50 illustrators/designers to sign up. When signing up, I will need your name, actual address, and a phone number. I will not share any of this information with anybody. This information is to be used to create a shipping list. I would also like a link to your portfolio, blog or sharing account like Flickr.
You will be responsible to pay the total shipping cost to the next artist in the next country.
Due to the process involved in getting this book from illustrator to illustrator, we ask for dedicated participants only. If the book arrives during an emergency situation and you are unable to participate, you may forward the book to the next participant. This will be strictly handled on a case-by-case basis.
Yes. I want you to illustrate something that is significant to your country or specific geographic location. This will give the other participants the opportunity to visually experience your part of the world.
Each illustrator is given 4 pages in the book (2 pages, front and back). The first page being a hand written introduction, the second, third and fourth pages will be used for the composition.
No, but please be aware that the pages in the book are made up of a medium weight paper and will curl and buckle if certain types of wet medium are used. Also please keep in mind that pastels, chalks, or any other medium that will smudge should be protected with some type of fixative.
We will be providing thin sheets of vellum in the shipping box that will accompany the book. Please place a sheet of vellum between the pages prior to shipping to the next illustrator.
We will be providing a list of participants to accompany the book in the shipping box. Each illustrator will place a line through their name once the book arrives, and after completion, forward the book to the next person on the list.
The book will be digitally published to PDF and placed on a new website dedicated to the International sketchbook project for the world to see. We are seeking other venues to show the book including publishing mainstream. We are hoping to publish all volumes of the book rotations and donate any profits to visual arts programs. All artists will be notified of the outcome of the project.
We will be posting the progress on this website on the Trippermap and FlickR. We strongly encourage all participants to shoot a teaser shot of their work along with a shot of themselves holding or standing next to the project’s case prior to sending off to the next participant, then email the images to be posted on this site.
Yes.We hope to continually renew the project.
