Instagram: @maisysummer
Website: www.maisysummer.com
Contact: maisysummer@mac.com
Maisy is an award winning Illustrator & Animator based at Marketplace Studios, Manchester. Working on projects across publishing, animation, murals, installation, print and pattern & editorial. Maisy works closely with clients on projects that often have storytelling & community at their centre, she's created work for brands like Sunday Times & Paperchase, as well as independent Manchester creative hubs such as Hilton House & Magma.
Maisy has a handcrafted & playful approach to her practice, creating outcomes that are skilfully composed and produced. Working with a range of traditional to digital materials; often beginning with gouache, then mixed with a process of paper cutting, letting characters and objects evolve from this handcrafted process. This is then playfully finished with textures and other finer details digitally.
Two projects Maisy curated, illustrated and published were shortlisted in the AOI World Illustration Awards & STACK Magazine Awards 2019, & featured in Creative Review. Magma-Zine celebrated the self publishing community behind book store Magma. Night & Day told the history of electric and eclectic Manchester music venue of the same name. Originally a fish and chip shop come jazz bar, and now over the years had the likes of Elbow, Blacks Keys and Kasabian through its doors.
Maisy recently co-directed and animated an explainer animation for Food for Heroes a charity providing free meals to NHS staff. Her practice often has a focus on illustrating, documenting and collating stories of different communities, looking into their space & histories to uncover narratives. This process of investigating by drawing, is then built upon with interviews and research, & can evolve into a variety of outcomes; from illustrated publications, animation & large scale character installations. Alongside freelancing Maisy is a Teaching Assistant at Manchester School of Art, and has co-founded a collaborative creative network Small Fry, a collective putting on events, talks & workshops.
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/maisy-summers-charming-paper-cut-illustrations-are-full-of-character/
https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/maisy-summers-charming-illustrations-for-a-new-cookbook/
Projects
- 40 days 40 HeroesIllustration for @40days40heroes post office workers. "Thank you to our post office workers who are working super hard to ensure we can still receive and send post all over the world. The ability to do this is something we easily took for granted before, but now means so much more. Ensuring that we can still keep in contact with loved ones, receive essential items, and keep our businesses running!" You can bid on the illustrations over on the comment section of @40days40heroes
- Night and Day PublicationNight and Day is a visual representation of the history of the Manchester Northern Quarter bar and music venue of the same name. The publication captures a snippet of time from the venue, by documenting the personal experiences, and memories from the owner and promoter of the venue, Jan Oldenburg and Jay Taylor. Night and Day began as a Fish and Chip shop, but Jan had the vision for much more. He started with having jazz bands perform, sometimes the bubbling of the chip fryers would drown out
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Work history
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Illustration with AnimationManchester School of Art
Manchester, United KingdomFreelance
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Freelance Illustrator and AnimatorMaisy Summer
Manchester, United KingdomFreelance
Skills
- Illustration
- Animation
- Products
- Illustration Storyboarding
- Digital Design
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Photoshop
- Paper Collage
- Risograph Printing
- Gif Animation
Education
BA(Hons) Illustration AnimationManchester School of Art
- Manchester, United Kingdom
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Awards
Shortlisted in AOI World Illustration Awards in both 'Books' and 'Site Specific' Catergory 2019Association of Illustrators (AOI)
Shortlisted in STACK MAGAZINE AWARDS 2019 for 'Best Use of Illustration'Stack Magazines
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