Helping people with
learning disabilities into jobs
learning disabilities into jobs
Illustration Club Challenge 4
In summary this article talks about the Foxes Academy,
a school that offers hospitality and culinary training to students with learning disabilities, allowing them to live and work independently.
a school that offers hospitality and culinary training to students with learning disabilities, allowing them to live and work independently.
"JJ Goodman, a founder of the London Cocktail Club chain, gave a talk at the academy. That inspired Tom Hawkins, a 22-year-old with Down’s syndrome,
to ask Mr Goodman to help him pursue his dream of being a barman.
Tom has been undergoing training and the chain hopes to offer him a permanent job, where he will be mixing piña coladas with the best of them."
to ask Mr Goodman to help him pursue his dream of being a barman.
Tom has been undergoing training and the chain hopes to offer him a permanent job, where he will be mixing piña coladas with the best of them."
This project is a part of Illustration Club.
Illustration Club is a group of friends and co-workers who decided to get together, learn and explore editorial illustration.
This personal project allows us to explore and practice our illustration skills, boosts our creativity and gives us a place to learn new tools and techniques.
We keep up to date with what happening around us and we translate that to our own visual language. The Club give us a place to test and try out new ideas.
We keep up to date with what happening around us and we translate that to our own visual language. The Club give us a place to test and try out new ideas.
Very much a learning environment, supporting each other and giving constructive feedback has been a foundation to our journey to editorial illustration.
