Manifest redux

The last thing I saw before I left campus--wet and tired and a little sad that it was over after the long wait:


So it ended for me where it began, with Rachal Duggan's little "nun ladies". . . though these were person-sized. Fun.

Duggan Redux

I should have posted this a while back. . . but Rachal Duggan is an amazing designer/illustrator whose illustrations were recently chosen for all of the print pieces and media releases for Columbia College Chicago's Manifest. Remember this story? I posted about her a month or two ago?

Anyway, I loved her illustrations so much that I crocheted a 3-D version of one of her little nun-ladies for a pal at Columbia who does loads of work on Manifest. That got me an intro to Rachal and then I made one for her, too. We're total strangers and I think it struck her as weird that I was willing to make something for her with no payment.

So, she got me back, sending me an illustration through campus mail as a thank you. It made my whole week and I've already framed it and made it part of the growing salon hanging in my office.

Thank you, Rachal!

Here's the illustration (and this should happen more often artsy people. we should still work to sell our art, but we should gift it, too, and see what wonders the world sends back to us in return):

Rachal Duggan Tribute

So, clearly I am a big fan of the illustration for Columbia's Manifest print piece. I've also seen the designs for the t-shirts. . . I think the senior T-shirt has one of the strange Duggan ladies, covered in a leaf pattern carrying a log. It's incredibly weird and incredibly beautiful and somehow I will find a way to get one, despite not being a graduating senior.

But one of the things I also love about Rachal Duggan's Manifest work is the simplicity of the design. Really easy shapes to make into three dimensional objects and if Rachal agrees, i think we need to make these little critters into a 3-dimensional presence, all over campus, on the actual day. To prove my point, I have made a 3-D version of one of the little guys from the postcard as a gift for Rachal.