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Laura Little

@PinkParrot1

Graphic artist and lecturer. Interested in children's publishing, picturebooks and artists' books.

 Cork / Limerick, Ireland
Joined August 2012
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Off for a walk with three generations of Littles and dog. @UL @irishguidedogs
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Image from Dr. Pippa Little (@PippaLittle3)
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The countdown to our 2024 Graduate Exhibitions has officially started! 🎉 Dept. Of Media Communications launching May 30th. Dept. Of Fine Art & Applied Art launching May 31st. Visit crawford.mtu.ie/graduates 📸🎨🖥️🖌️
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Image from MTU CRAWFORD (@MTU_Crawford)
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Reminder: Our Portfolio Portal is closing this Friday 1st of March 2024📢 An Art & Design portfolio is required as part of the CAO application to the BA (Hons) in Contemporary Applied Art, Fine Art and Visual Communications. For guidelines and more info: crawford.mtu.ie/how-to-apply
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Pick up a copy of the @ST__Ireland for an absolute bumper roundup of great books from 2023. Put together lovingly with the help of all our amazing bookseller friends 💚
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You are warmly invited to join us for our MTU Crawford College of Art & Design Open Day events on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November 2023, 10am – 2pm. The Department of Fine Art and Applied Art Open Days will take place at the Sharman Crawford Street Campus on the mornings of 17th / 18th November. The Department of Media Communications Open Day will take place at the MTU Bishopstown Campus (Visual Communications & Creative Digital Media) and the Envision Centre Campus, Sober Lane (Photography with New Media) on Friday 17th November 2023. Full schedules at: mtu.ie/opendays We look forward to seeing you all there!
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Famous faces available from the Monotype Corporation Ltd. all displayed on one small leaflet! #typeface #type #typography #typedesign #printing #letterpress #printhistory #designhistory #graphicdesign #designinspiration
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Image from St Bride Foundation (@stbridefdn)
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“10 Chaises” by Dominique Erhard is a small pop-up book originally made for kids highlighting 10 iconic #chairs from the past century. Originally released in 2016 and re-published in 2022.
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Directed by writer and artist @inwetweather and poet, artist and editor @thecoracler, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. A new title, 'A Table of Books in Ballybeg', launches at #smallpublishersfair23, Conway Hall, London, 27/28 October
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Image from Small Publishers Fair (@SmallPublishers)
Image from Small Publishers Fair (@SmallPublishers)
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Well done to all the @MTU_ie graduates shortlisted for the @IDIIreland Graduate Awards 2023. A special mention to our own @MTU_Crawford Media Communications graduates: Muireann Hayes, Patrick Harty and Daria Jackiewicz! 👏🏻 #designireland #idiawards – at Cork, Ireland
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Small Publishers Fair returns to London's @ConwayHall next month, with 68 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. Fri 27 & Sat 28 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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Book token by master lithographer Barnett Freedman, 1943, from @UniRdgTypoColls. The only early book token design to be offered in different colours. Find out more about lithography and book ephemera @cbcp_UniRdg summer school, 20 & 21 June. For more info: tinyurl.com/2et87ptc
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Michael Twyman talks about "Puffin picture books for children: the early years of artist-drawn chromolithography" and delights us with examples of most early Puffin picture books, with a focus on those produced during World War 2. @cbcp_UniRdg Stunning images, hard to select some
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Image from Dr Simona Di Martino (@SimoDiMa1)
Image from Dr Simona Di Martino (@SimoDiMa1)
Image from Dr Simona Di Martino (@SimoDiMa1)
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Please note that the last day to book for the 'Researching Penguin' conference at #Bristol & online is 9 May. Please retweet! @SHARPorg @PenguinCollSoc @samartha @CathyMcAteer1 @loweryhannah1 @Muireann @MedievalDigigal @kreeve @PinkParrot1 @PenguinUKBooks @BibSoc Image: DM1964/14
Colour poster designed by William Grimmond for Penguin Books, n.d. [c. 1947]. A summer promotion showing a Penguin, Pelican and Puffin with their luggage ready to go on holiday, and the text: 'Wherever you go - take a Penguin Book. Penguins, taken on the train Elevate and entertain Pelicans, as you'd expect Suit the adult intellect Puffins, on the other hand For the growing mind are planned' (DM1964/14).

ALT Colour poster designed by William Grimmond for Penguin Books, n.d. [c. 1947]. A summer promotion showing a Penguin, Pelican and Puffin with their luggage ready to go on holiday, and the text: 'Wherever you go - take a Penguin Book. Penguins, taken on the train Elevate and entertain Pelicans, as you'd expect Suit the adult intellect Puffins, on the other hand For the growing mind are planned' (DM1964/14).

Penguin Researchers Network (@networkpenguin1) profile picturePenguin Researchers Network@networkpenguin15 Apr 2023
In case you missed it & want to find out more about us, you can now go to our *webpage*! Check us out here: bristol.ac.uk/library/specia… And while there are still places, you might like to bag a place at our inaugural May conference too! shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-…
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We promise that our librarians don’t have gigantic hands. These books are 57mm high and 47mm wide – about the same length as a mouse’s tail. 🧵👇 📜Shelfmark C.194.a.945
A librarian holds a tiny, open book in the palm of their hand. The left-hand page is printed with a coloured illustration of two children bowling hoops. The right-hand page contains the caption.

ALT A librarian holds a tiny, open book in the palm of their hand. The left-hand page is printed with a coloured illustration of two children bowling hoops. The right-hand page contains the caption.

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Booksellers and publishers converging on Cork to share ideas @BooksellingI @PublishingIRL echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41…
Cork to host major book trade conference

Cork to host major book trade conference

Joan Lucey of Vibes and Scribes, Cork’s last remaining independent bookstore, said it acknowledges the city’s importance as a literary hub. 

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Delighted to share #Penguin Researchers Network conference at @BrisUniSpColl on 17-18 May 2023! Details 👇, new deadline for abstracts: *20 Feb 2023*. Please retweet @SHARPorg @PenguinCollSoc @samartha @CathyMcAteer1 @loweryhannah1 @Muireann @MedievalDigigal @kreeve @PinkParrot1
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Laura Little retweeted
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Knights Of@_KnightsOf2 Nov 2022
📢 WE'RE GROWING 📢 if you're crazy about design and want to join the children's publisher of the year then we've got the perfect job for you 👀 👇🏾knightsof.media/work-at-knig…
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The Guardian
@guardian23 Sep 2022
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels theguardian.com/books/2022/s…
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A tender portrait of adoption; a zebra on the run; an uplifting poetry anthology; an exceptional YA debut; and more

theguardian.com
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Jo Bowers@Jo_Bowers28 Aug 2022
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2022/a…

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Bad manners in the jungle; a magical inner-city tree; galactic danger; a conservationist call to arms; plus the best new YA novels

theguardian.com
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BookTrust
@Booktrust21 Aug 2022
We're looking for a Partnership Manager to join the BookTrust team! If you want to help us get books, resources and support to the children and families who need us most, find out more about the role here: booktrust.org.uk/about-us/wo…
We are hiring - find out more at booktrust.org.uk/work-at-booktrust Plus a blue star, a yellow background, purple splodges and navy, light blue, light purple and grey curved lines

ALT We are hiring - find out more at booktrust.org.uk/work-at-booktrust Plus a blue star, a yellow background, purple splodges and navy, light blue, light purple and grey curved lines

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