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...
Poste Mistress A/W11 Window Design

Poste Mistress A/W11 Window Design

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve started a new job at Office Shoes! Very exciting. My time at Yumi was great, I learned a lot, but I felt it was time to move on. So I’m doing the same sort of thing, Graphic Design, POS and visuals for retail, just in a bigger company. So far...
Sneak Peek: Illustration for Lionheart Magazine

Sneak Peek: Illustration for Lionheart Magazine

With the demise of Design Week recently (shocking news – that was a quality design publication), and countless other print magazines ceasing to exist, starting your own Magazine right now, seems like insanity. Helen Martin is doing just that; but I have a feeling she’s not crazy at all. People still like things. Actual, physical,...
Greetings Cards for Tigerprint Hand Drawn Type Competition

Greetings Cards for Tigerprint Hand Drawn Type Competition

These are the final 3 designs I submitted to the Hand Drawn Type Competition from Tigerprint. I hand drew all elements using fineliner, pencil, coloured pencil, and ink, and then scanned them into Photoshop, where I collaged all the pieces together and added more colour if necessary. I wanted to use bold typographical imagery and...
New Work: Blog Banner for Helen Martin

New Work: Blog Banner for Helen Martin

Just a quick post from me, to share this blog banner I did for the lovely writer, Helen Martin. Helen used to be an Editor for Amelia’s Magazine but is launching a new magazine soon so wishing her all the best with that! Me and some other illustrators offered to design some banner headers for...
Illustrations for The Royal Thames Yacht Club

Illustrations for The Royal Thames Yacht Club

In February I was commissioned to produce a series of illustrations for The Royal Thames Yacht Club Member’s Handbook; depicting the traditional formal attire and the varying ranks. It was an amazing commission and I really enjoyed working on it. All the illustrations were hand drawn using pencil; I really enjoyed going back to basics and not relying...
My Packed Lunch Illustration for Anorak Magazine

My Packed Lunch Illustration for Anorak Magazine

Anorak Magazine, ‘The happy mag for kids‘ as it’s so aptly called, has been running this brilliant blog series called ‘My Packed Lunch‘, which has seen chefs, food organisations, and restaurant’s recipes teamed up with illustrators to bring them to life. I’m so happy to have been involved, as I love food illustration and haven’t...
Logo Designs for Lisa Doubleyou

Logo Designs for Lisa Doubleyou

Photographer Lisa Doubleyou was looking for designers to produce a new logo for her, and these were my submitted ideas. Lisa’s work can be seen here, the brief was quite open- shapes and the hand drawn feel, things like that Initial sketches. Final ideas. She had a few people vying for the work (not usually...
Osman AW11 for Amelia's Magazine

Osman AW11 for Amelia’s Magazine

Some more AW11 fashion illustrations hot off the catwalk; for Amelia’s Magazine once again. The Osman show was beautiful, clean structured lines, a pallets of bright and neutral colours, and the gorgeous blue ink backdrop. Read the original post over on Amelia’s Magazine; it seems quite a lot of us were commissioned to do this...
Cooperative Designs Fashion Illustrations for Amelia's Magazine

Cooperative Designs Fashion Illustrations for Amelia’s Magazine

I don’t often illustrate for Amelia’s these days as I have so much other stuff going on, but I can’t miss out on the customary London Fashion Week craziness every season! I love doing fashion illustrations, and being able to contribute to Amelia’s Mag every so often always rounds off the excitement of the new...
Compound Magazine

Compound Magazine

Some exciting news today; a few months ago I submitted work to Issue 1 of Compound Magazine, and it’s now finished! It’s not on general internet release yet, but you can download a copy here now! Click here to download Issue 1 of Compound Magazine – Chemistry. The idea of Compound Magazine is it’s like...