Studio
Noor Haldane (sample) is an illustrator and printer in Springfield. She draws for magazines, publishers and small brands, and prints her own editions.
Pen first, then ink on the drum
Noor studied printmaking and worked as a junior designer at a small publisher before going freelance in 2018 (sample).
Every picture starts in the sketchbook, in pencil, small. The ones that survive are drawn again in pen, scanned and split into colours, then printed one ink at a time, or sent as files to a magazine.
On the desk
The tools stay simple, so a picture looks the same in a sketchbook, a magazine and a print.
Drawing
Pencil, fine pens, a dip pen for long lines
Colour
Two or three spot colours, mixed by number
Printing
Risograph with blue, pink, yellow and black drums
Paper
170 gsm uncoated, cut to A4 and A3
Files
Print-ready PDF and TIFF
Clients
Magazines, publishers and small makers, mostly people who come back (names are samples).
The Harbour Review
Monthly covers since 2023
Northfield Press
Four book covers
Green Lane Kitchen
Labels and a café wall
Weekend Science
Spot illustrations
Where to find the prints
Print fairs and open studio days this season. Every fair stall has the full edition sheets on the table.
Sat 1 Nov
Open studio
Ropewalk Yard, Springfield
No booking
Free
15 and 16 Nov
Winter print fair
Corn Exchange, Springfield
Stall 14
Free
Sat 6 Dec
Open studio
Ropewalk Yard, Springfield
No booking
Free
Dates (sample).
Working on something?
Commissions, prints, workshops and press: one email reaches the studio.