OUIL502: Rookie and Tavi Gevinson

I love Rookie and the whole vibe of the work it posts and the content it talks about. I really like how a lot of the staff behind it are quite young but that is probably why it is so current... run by teenagers for teenagers. I find it really inspiring both visually and contextually and it's really cool to see what one young girl blogging can create! 

How they describe themselves... Rookie is a website for teenage girls. With monthly-themed content, we update three times every weekday, and once a day on weekends. 

Rookie is an American online magazine for teenage girls created by fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson. Rookie publishes art and writing from a wide variety of contributors, including journalists, celebrities, and the magazine's readers. The subject matter ranges from pop culture and fashion to adolescent social issues and feminism.^[2] Rookie's content is divided into monthly "issues", each built around a theme. It updates five days a week, three times a day: roughly just after school, at dinnertime, and "when it’s really late and you should be writing a paper but are Facebook stalking instead."

The history behind the formation of Rookie...

In November 2010, Gevinson announced on her blog, Style Rookie, that she would be launching a new magazine with Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy. Though Sassy had ceased publication in 1996, the year Gevinson was born, the fashion blogger had on several previous occasions expressed her admiration for the defunct indie teen magazine and lamented the fact that her generation did not have a Sassy heir to call its own.

Some of my work from OUIL505 Applied Illustration Module. I focussed this piece on Tavi Gevinson as an inspirational modern woman. 

Negotiations began between Pratt, Gevinson, and Say Media, the internet publisher behind Pratt's women's lifestyle site xoJane. This American Life host Ira Glass acted as a consultant to Gevinson and her manager and father, Steve, during the negotiations. Eventually, Pratt withdrew from official involvement in the venture, enabling Gevinson to maintain ownership. Pratt remains credited on the Rookie contributors' page as the magazine's "fairy godmother".

Rookie launched in September 2011, with Gevinson serving as editor-in-chief, former New York Times Magazine fact-checker Anaheed Alani serving as editorial director and story editor.

The Staff...

Allegra Lockstadt was born in Canada, grew up in Kentucky, and now lives in Minneapolis. She works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer while maintaining a personal fine-arts practice on the side. She will probably always love horses, coffee, and cakes.

http://www.allegralockstadt.com/

Allyssa Yohana is an NYC-based artist originally from New Orleans. She’s a lover of pups, pizza, and makin’ art with her buddies.

Alyson Zetta Williams is going about life (16 years of it so far) in southern California, making art, editing a zine, listening to Best Coast, watching her Daria DVD, and eating her vegetables (with hummus, of course).

http://www.gohszineclub.com/
https://instagram.com/alysonzw

Amber Humphrey is freelance burrito-eater, entertainment writer, and ’90s pop culture devotee from the Bay Area. A prolific doodler, Amber spends her evenings drawing intense crayon portraits of Bill Pullman. She blogs about the olden days at nostomanic.blogspot.com.

http://nostomanic.blogspot.co.uk/

Amy Rose Spiegel is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her main interests are the Replacements, Super Mario, and Roland Barthes. You can reach her on Twitter @amyrosary or at her website.

http://amyrosespiegel.com/

Ana Hinojosa is a scrawny illustrator who never seems to keep her sketchbook at home. She enjoys all forms of comics, sour candies, spooky things, and anything pink and super cute. You can find her making all sorts of art on her blog, The Skinny Artist. And you can get in touch with her at anahinojosa3@yahoo.com.

http://theskinnyartist.tumblr.com/

Anaheed Alani edits Rookie articles from her luxurious New York City abode. 

Ananda Gervais has lived in London for every one of her 16 years on earth. Her favorite things are books, Superman, and math, and in her spare time she loves to write, take pictures, and make videos.

Anna Fitzpatrick is a Toronto-based writer/bookseller/expert sleeper. Her contributions have appeared in WORN Fashion Journal, The Hairpin, and Shameless Magazine. Get in touch with her at annaclaire.fitzpatrick@gmail.com.

Anna McConnell writes and farms and travels. Contact her at moosethehuman@gmail.com.

Too See the rest of the huge team follow this link to the Rookie Website:
http://www.rookiemag.com/us/staff/

Some of my work from OUIL505 Applied Illustration Module. I focussed this piece on Tavi Gevinson as an inspirational modern woman. 

As part of my personal and professional practice I am starting to contact other illustrators and professionals so I am so happy about this list of names, bios and contact details! It is also great to be able to see their different blogs and how they capitalize on an internet presence to showcase their artwork and the context behind it.