Just a quick one to spotlight a really great audio review of Michelle Turner’s Wedding Photography Field Guide. Over at pixiq.com, John Nemo gives it his highest recommendation (“as many thumbs up as I can manage”). So if (like me) you’ve got a couple [...]
That’s right, Ilex will be at Europe’s largest annual photo trade show, Focus on Imaging, at the NEC from March 4th to 7th, and you’re all invited. Perhaps more excitingly, we’ll be selling our latest books at 40% off and offering you the chance [...]
Sharpen your pencils! Or rather, prime your digital paintbrush settings, for Ilex’s new release Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner is NOW IN STOCK. To mark the occasion, we’re lucky to have award-winning artist and author Carlyn Beccia give us insight into the tricks she’s [...]
The 84th Academy Awards was a typically glittering evening, with quite a few of the contributors to our FilmCraft series walking away winners. Dante Ferretti garnered the Production Design award for his breathtaking work on Scorsese’s animated triumph, Hugo, while the brilliant Mark Bridges [...]
We’re firm believers in the idea that this is the age of iPhoneography (and Android photography too) and it’s good to see the mainstream media catching up with the idea. Here’s a nice little interview that foxnews.com conducted with Stephanie Calabrese Roberts (author of [...]
…and definitely not because she doesn’t know how to write a blog post, here’s something Natalia, our Managing Editor, was sent by co-author Mike Goodridge that made us smile with a proud blush; the good folk at Waterstones paid us a bit of a [...]
There’s something about payday that makes you slightly reckless, isn’t there? Whether it’s handing over your fine-milled grindstone dust for nights out, new shoes, or (as is mostly the case in our office) shiny new pieces of photography kit, it’s so very easy. Which [...]
Dr Emm Johnstone*, one of the distinguished authors of the exceedingly well-reviewed Art of Medicine, will be appearing this Saturday at the Brighton Science Festival, talking about art and medicine. She’s part of a fascinating looking line up that includes a day of full [...]
Those who would know better than I tell me that there’s nothing like the thrill of seeing your first book in print. And Jolie O’Dell – author, tech guru and blogger extraordinaire – has just had that thrill, and shared it with the world [...]
Over the last ten years the gloriously-named Rondo Hatton awards have established themselves as the most prestigious in the world of Horror. So we’re delighted that Jovanka Vuckovic’s splendid ZOMBIES! An Illustrated History of the Undead has been nominated for Book of the Year! [...]
It was exciting to see the BAFTA awards the other night and to realise that no fewer than three of the winners have given us – which means you – the benefit of their wisdom, in recent months. Dante Ferretti, long-time Scorsese collaborator, won [...]
While collecting reviews of our recent books, intrepidly sifting the seashells of possibility for the treasure of acclaim, we were struck by how, well, glowing the reviews were. It seems almost vulgar and un-British to say so, but we were pretty buzzed to see some [...]
