RVA Mag and NODDERLY presents It’s Still Our City, a podcast hosted by Harrison Christy and with Clair Morgan as co-host and producer through NODDERLY.
“Ed Harrington moved to Richmond in 1993 to study art at VCU. At VCU, he was a Communication Arts major with a double track in both Graphic Design and Illustration.
After VCU, Ed worked as a graphic designer/illustrator for Inside Business for a couple years before moving over to Style Weekly for about 20 years (where he eventually became the Creative Director). His comic strip that he drew for Style, The HR Department, won first place at the Association of Alternative Newsmedia awards once.
While working at Style during the day, he worked evenings at a tattoo shop (Red Dragon) as a tattoo artist, and also spent his free time as a freelance illustrator. All of this experience shaped his approach to illustration and his style:
“I want my concepts to be clear and concise, almost like instructions. I tell people that I try to draw things the way a robot would. This is probably best illustrated in my ‘Ikea Instructions’ series, where I turn horror-movie villain origins into wordless Ikea Instructions. My Freddy Krueger Ikea Instructions is probably the best blend of my graphic designer and illustrator sides. Turning the Freddy nursery rhyme into pictographs in the Ikea style was a high point.”
Ed has done work for Random House Books, Mondo, the CW, MTV, the NFL, RMS Records and even illustrated a lot of official King of the Hill merchandise.
Ed, this was an absolute pleasure. It felt so nice when not only did you respond to my fanboy DM, but you also told me that you were a fan of the podcast. I was shocked and verklempt. 😘
Join us. We discuss his journey into individualism in life and making his way to Richmond, Virginia. Figuring out a way to encourage someone not to have their first tattoo be a forehead tattoo AND hearing from your buddies that you’re being ripped off by Temu… just to discover they purchased your said ripoff on Temu.
This episode is brought to you by RVA MAG and produced by NODDERLY. TY to Fuzzy Cactus for providing a safe place to 🎤 🎙️.” — host, Harrison Christy
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