{"id":1390,"date":"2011-06-06T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:17:28","slug":"laura-smith-interviewed-by-anne-telford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Laura Smith Interviewed by Anne Telford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LauraSmitArtCom.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1393\" title=\"Laura Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LauraSmitArtCom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LauraSmitArtCom.png 857w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LauraSmitArtCom-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LauraSmitArtCom-399x300.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy wife, Illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/LauraSmithArt.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Smith<\/a>, was recently interviewed by Anne Telford about her whimsical illustrations for the Summer 2011 edition of The Directory of Illustration&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/illustrationvoice.com\/v012\/landing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Illustration Voice<\/a> \u2013 the online illustration newsletter. Anne was the founding managing editor of <em>Communication Arts<\/em> magazine, and is now their Editor-At-Large.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StrongMan.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1397\" title=\"Strong Man\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StrongMan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StrongMan.png 855w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StrongMan-300x142.png 300w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StrongMan-500x238.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.commarts.com\/shop\/detail.asp?cur=yes\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Communication Arts<\/em><\/a> magazine (Illustration Annual 52) also features Laura&#8217;s cover illustration for The Graphic Artists Guild <em>Pricing and Ethical Guidelines<\/em> (see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=925\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> on this), and is she currently featured in the Guild&#8217;s Member Spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pegs13_cover-frontspine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" title=\"PEGs 13 Cover &amp; Spine\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pegs13_cover-frontspine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pegs13_cover-frontspine.jpg 636w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pegs13_cover-frontspine-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a>In addition that PEGs cover was recently honored by the Society of Illustrators: Illustrators 53, and was also a winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/altpick.com\/awards\/2010\/view.php?id=1894\" target=\"_blank\">Altpick 7 Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Illustrator Laura Smith, was recently interviewed by Anne Telford about her whimsical illustrations for the Summer 2011 edition of The Directory of Illustration&#8217;s Illustration Voice \u2013 the online illustration newsletter. Anne was the founding managing editor of Communication Arts magazine, and is now their Editor-At-Large. The current issue of Communication Arts magazine (Illustration Annual 52) also features Laura&#8217;s cover illustration for The Graphic Artists Guild Pricing and Ethical Guidelines (see my previous post on this), and is she currently featured in the Guild&#8217;s Member Spotlight. In addition that PEGs cover was recently honored by the Society of Illustrators: Illustrators 53, and was also a winner in the Altpick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[31,37,83,99,149,161,162,163,187,211,263,301],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notes","tag-altpick-7-awards","tag-anne-telford","tag-communication-arts","tag-directory-of-illustration","tag-graphic-artists-guild","tag-illustration","tag-illustration-voice","tag-illustrators-53","tag-laura-smith","tag-member-spotlight","tag-pricing-and-ethical-guidelines","tag-society-of-illustrators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}