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Hoxton Window Project: Jess Bennett
This month’s Hoxton Window Project featured talented illustrator Jessica Bennett, based just outside of Cambridge. She covered our windows with drawings of astronauts floating around in space.
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Inspired by astronaut Chris Hadfield’s music video for David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” which he made whilst on the international space station, Jess came up with the idea of illustrating a brief history of space travel, a topic she is very into! Her colour palette for the windows was inspired by real photos of the astronauts on their missions.
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Jess’s style is a mix of boxy shapes and bright colours. She likes to fuse a 1960s children’s books illustrative style with more modern styles of drawing.
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Much of Jess’s work is centred around space; in 2013 she even won the Macmillian’s Children Book Award for illustrating The Forgotten Astronaut. She has produced work for Phoenix Magazine, Tigerprint and Loncon 3 Science Convention. To check out more of her work (including some awesome astronaut stickers) you can go here.
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2017-11-07