Combining illustration and graphic design skills

Estelle Carol adapted her training as a fine artist, painter and silk-screen printmaker into doing electronic illustration for brochures, magazines, posters, textbooks and websites. Although it's unusual for a graphic designer to also be an illustrator, this combination of skills is perfect for working with labor unions and nonprofits.

Stock art

Since Estelle owns the copyrights on most her custom illustrations, she can resell them as stock art at affordable rates.

Who decides the concept for the illustration?

That's flexible. You provide the concept or we can develop several concept alternatives for your review.

Affordable rates

We present a detailed price quote before any illustration job begins. Our rate for nonprofits and unions is $50 per hour.

Long-distance relationships

Working in different cities is not a problem by phone, fax and e-mail. We send "work- in-progress" illustrations as Acrobat files that can be opened and printed from any computer using a free utility called Acrobat Reader.

Copyright

Our illustration rates are reasonable because we generally retain the copyright on the art. For an extra fee, we will sell an exclusive copyright.

We invite you to talk to our satisfied clients.

If you need references, we will gladly provide you with names and contact information for our clients. We do most of our illustration for magazines and text book publishers. A list of union and nonprofit clients include:

• United Auto Workers Union (Solidarity Magazine)
• American Federation of Gov't Employees
• Office of Women's Affairs, UIC
• Women and Gender Studies Program, UIC
• Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
• Employee Benefits Plan Review
• AFSCME Iowa
• Union Communication Services