Open Call: ROMANI LANGUAGE BOOK ILLUSTRATOR

Do you have experience as an illustrator? Come to our team to create a book together!

You should work alongside with the authors and the photographer to produce the necessary illustrations that will accompany the learning situations from a Romani language book.

The work should start in August 2020 and has to be finished by the end of October 2020.

Work activities involve:

• demonstrate proficiency in basic art skills;
• artistic ability, creativity, and manual dexterity;
• liaising with the authors in order to understand and interpret their needs;
• knowledge of appropriate styles;
• analyzing a brief’s specification and the text to be illustrated;
• thinking imaginatively and creatively to produce ideas requested;
• creating images and designs by using the traditional hand skills of drawing and painting, alongside other techniques, to meet design briefs;
• using computer-aided design (CAD) packages to scan images and change size, colors and other elements;
• working within a set timescale;
• creating original pieces.

Qualifications

The following studies may increase your chances:

• fine art;
• graphic design and illustration;
• visual art.

Applications should be written in English and sent to eriac@eriac.org with the title: ILLUSTRATOR POSITION.

Application should include:

• Your actualized CV;
• 3 samples illustrated based on the following situations:

1. Ana and Tom meeting, saying hello: happy faces
2. Alina and Sara speaking: unhappy faces
3. Family picture: father, mother with a baby, grandmother, grandfather, 3 children (different ages), cat and dog.

Incomplete applications will be rejected.

Deadline for applications: 7 August, 2020.

This open call is part of the Romani Language Reform and International Romani Language Council project of the Roma Cultural History Initiative financed by the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO).