Rachel is an illustrator, designer, blogger and trend hunter. This is her online portfolio and blog, with musings on illustration, design, fashion, advertising, branding, marketing, music, cakey-bakey goodness, culture and all things cool.
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New Work: Illustration in Issue 1 of Lionheart Magazine

New Work: Illustration in Issue 1 of Lionheart Magazine

The exciting and wonderful first issue of Lionheart Magazine has been published and is currently in a bookshop near you! I was asked to create a cherry blossom-themed illustration which I later learned was to accompany an article written by the rather lovely Cherry Healey. Above is my original illustration – the final version was...
New Work: Editorial Illustration for TANTRUM Magazine

New Work: Editorial Illustration for TANTRUM Magazine

I was asked to contribute an illustration to Issue 2 of TANTRUM Magazine, the Music Issue. The article I was assigned to illustrate was a really interesting one, called Behind the Mask by Zachary Colbert. Looking at artists across genres and decades who use an alter ego or use masks as a part of their...

New Work! Bernard Chandran Fashion Illustrations for Amelia’s Magazine

Amelia’s Magazine were hard at work with their coverage of LFW and I was asked to illustrate some of Bernard Chandran’s pieces. I wanted to accentuate the structure of these dresses; the strong lines, yet the loose, slouchy feel. Chandran has a big urban, city feel to me so I thought a backdrop of the...

New Work: Editorial Illustration

This was a piece I did for an article I found in The Times, written by Giles Coren called ‘You’ve never heard of Paddington Basin, the little sink from darkest Peru?’. The article has a few different tangents to it, but the one I focussed on was the trouble Giles is having with his new...

Rachel says hello.

Sorry for not posting in a while, I keep meaning to but have been a bit busy =/ The main thing I’ve been doing (aside from too much socialising) is sorting my website out. It’s nearly finished, I posted about it when I’d just started, so thought it’s time to get it out there! www.rachelsayshello.com...

New editorial illustration

It’s a new year and so new work. Loads of it in fact, I think I’ve taken on too much. But more on that later I think. For one of my modules, I am illustrating 2 book covers (one for the Penguin Design Award, The Secret History) and also doing 6 editorial illustrations. I’m focusing...