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Illustration as a mode of cultural production is an exponentially expanding phenomenon. Illustration students form a significant and substantial constituency within the Art and Design education sector. The future of Illustration disciplinarians is assured, or so it may seem. It is conceivable that the volume of Illustration graduates entering the ‘job (less) market’ exceeds real demand for conventional, transactional, freelance, commercial Illustration work. This constitutes an existential threat for the discipline and increased precarity for Illustration graduates. Add to this the imminence of wide scale Automation (Chui et al), the deployment of Artificial Intelligence in to the creative sector and the normalization of Self-Entrepreneurship (Deresiewicz) and we have a potent and destabilizing ‘mix’ that poses serious ethical and operational questions to educators, institutions and the industry at large.