Rachel Shin

I am currently a sophomore in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design! A lot of my work consists of storytelling through illustrations and animations. I am most inspired by our everyday lifestyle and activities focusing on color and lighting to help tell a compelling story

Title: A Cats Market
Title: Germs Germs Neighborhood
Title: It's a Quiet Night
Title: Envy
Title: Explore
Title: At Night
Title: Li Chi Slays the Serpent
Title: He's late
Title: Jazz Band Character Designs
Title: He looks so Peaceful
Title: A Sip

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Rachel Shin is an illustrator and animator. She is currently a sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design receiving a BFA in illustration.

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Anna & Elena Balbusso

In our work there is a clear reference to artists and paintings. The Italian art plays a key role in our work, it is an important source of inspiration but not the only. Every project is different, we do not work in series.There is not a specific art period but art in general, from Ancient Rome mural painting (frescoes at Pompeii), Italian Renaissance, Romanticism (prelude of modern art) Modern Art (symbolism, surrealism, Russian constructivism, Italian Futurism) and Contemporary Art. We use mixed media, traditional methods (acrylic, gouache, pencil, pen) were combined with digital programs, however we do not use the virtual paint brushes instead relying on doing all our brush stroke by hand with black gouache on paper. We work in many fields of communication with different styles: graphic style and painterly style.

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Caption: Of Sorrow and Such, Tor Books
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Cover art for Angela Slatter’s Of Sorrow and Such, a dark fantasy novella published by Tor Books. Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a word-Gideon has been good to them, and it's always better to keep on her good side. Just in case. Gideon is captured, bound for torture and a fiery end.
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Caption: Among the Thorns, Tor Books
Description: 2015 BEST OF SHOW JOSEPH MORGAN HENNINGER AWARD SILA 53rd Illustration West. Selected Society of Illustrators 57 New York Annual Competition 2015. This artwork accompanies the dark fantasy novella “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes, published on Tor.com, 2014.
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Caption: House on Fire, Reader's Digest Magazine
Description: 2016 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL. Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Our artwork accompanies the true story "House on fire" by Hollye Dexter for Reader's Digest Magazine, November issue 2015. My House Burned Down, and Here’s What It Taught Me: One Mother’s Heart-Pounding True Story.
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Caption: Burning Girl, Tor Books
Description: This artwork accompanies the dark fantasy novella: "Burning Girls" written by Veronica Schanoes. Our artwork represents a final episode of the story. It is a clear reference to the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three; it was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of the city of New York. The story tells about a Jewish girl growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. She is forced to emigrate to the United States in search of work.
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Caption: autoimmune disease, The New Yorker Magazine
Description: 2014 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL The Image accompanies the article written by Meghan O’Rourke “Personal history by Meghan O’Rourke. Living with an autoimmune disease”. “Soon I could no longer write or read: focusing my eyes and my mind was impossible”. We imagined the symptoms of the autoimmune disease as a network of branches within the body.
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Caption: Modern Love, Middlebury Magazine US
Description: Image for Middlebury Magazine to accompany “Modern Love” by Leah Fessler, an in depth exploration of the desire for emotional commitment amidst the hook-up culture of college life.
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Caption: Moral distress, Scrubs Magazine
Description: Image for Scrubs Magazine to accompany “Occupational hazards: Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Moral distress”. The article explores the causes and effects of nursing's most formidable occupational hazards.
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Caption: Mischief at Midnight, cover art, Scholastic US
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016.
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Caption: The Kept, Middlebury Magazine
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 57 New York Annual Competition 2015. Book review "The Kept" by James Schott. Article "Mother's sins" by Regan Eberhart, Middlebury Magazine 2014
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Caption: Tatyana
Description: 2013 GOLD MEDAL SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS NEW YORK- AWARD OF EXCELLENCE COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE...and other honors Image from the book "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, The Folio Society 2012
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Caption: Richard II, cover art, Penguin UK
Description: Winner image selected from Society of Illustrators 58 New York Annual Competition 2016. Cover art for the book “Richard II” by Laura Ashe. Our personal artistic interpretation of the portrait of the Richard II King. The title is part of the "Penguin Monarchs", series of books about Britain’s kings and queens. It is the ambitious new publishing project from Penguin, which will see 45 titles. Each book is written by a contemporary historian.

Hilary Clarcq

After earning a BA in English and Fine Art, Hilary spent many years as a graphic designer before turning to illustration as a way to combine design-thinking with her love of drawing. Her design background is evident in her illustration work, where she employs graphic elements alongside more realistic rendering.

When not drawing or painting, you can find her outdoors or discovering new places. Her favorite means of exploration are bikes, surfboards, and the printed word.

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Caption: The Musgrave Ritual
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Caption: A Scandal in Bohemia
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Angela Hsieh

Title: The Cavioliths
Description: The Caviolith mountain range is a curious and oft-overlooked geozoological phenomenon. Despite its unique formations, research potential, and undeniable charm, it is often bypassed in favor of the charismatic Anuran Falls to the south. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate the Cavioliths in depth, but much of it still remains a mystery; navigation is tricky, and maps must be updated each time one of its formations awakens to wander to a new location. Cavioliths are docile by nature and tolerate human presence. If you plan to visit during feeding season, make sure to bring earplugs to protect your hearing, as pre-feeding wheeking can reach thunderous levels.
Title: NPR: International Adoption
Description: For a piece on NPR about an adoptee's journey to find her biological family.
Title: NPR: Book Concierge
Title: NPR: Best Albums of 2018
Title: NPR: Green Spaces
Description: For a episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the restorative power of natural spaces.
Title: NPR: The Cassandra Curse
Description: For an episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the psychology of warnings.
Title: NPR: Horror Readers Poll
Description: Created for NPR's callout for submissions to their yearly summer reader poll.
Title: Doujiang Youtiao
Description: When it comes to doujiang youtiao, the food itself—a steaming bowl of fresh soy milk and a crispy-on-the-outside-fluffy-on-the-inside stick of fried dough—is of course the main attraction, but the ambience is just as much a part of the experience. To wit: no doujiang youtiao breakfast is truly complete without you almost wiping out as you slide your way back to your table over tiles slicked with decades of fryer oil while a group of a-ma argue politics in a corner.

Rachel Shin

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