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Following illustration has become a part-time job. Posts on social media now reach just 3.5% of followers on average. Algorithms bury static images. Illustrators have to maintain a presence on five platforms to be visible on one.
Which means illustrators, whose job is making pictures, are now also expected to perform as influencers. More than half of working creators are at a burnout breaking point, and the endless posting cycle is, for most, the largest source of distress in their working lives. Nobody signs up to be an illustrator to make content about being an illustrator.
The newsletter is where we look at all of the work together to see what it all means. Each issue brings a human point of view to the illustrations being made, reading them not as isolated images but as a cultural barometer for what illustrators are reckoning with, what visual languages are emerging, what’s getting commissioned, and what you may have missed.
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