Saturday, 31 October 2015

Study Task 2; Reflective Practice & Professional Contexts

Products// Contexts// Functions of Illustration

NOTES

- Physical and conceptual contexts can be attributed to illustration
- Can anything be illustration? // What can illustration be?

Drawing - Image making - Illustration

DRAWING; process, research, exploration
IMAGE MAKING; shape, composition, colour, visual language, consideration
ILLUSTRATION; context, communication, solving problems, function

-Illustration is a broad term, can mean a lot of different things
-What is illustration to me? // What do I want it to be?

SIX STARTING POINTS FOR THE CONTEXT OF ILLUSTRATION IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTIES

- Publishing and book design
- Editorial and Reportage
- Character and Narrative
-Product and Packaging
- Retail and Merchandise
- Object and Environment

Three examples of contexts of illustration within the creative industries and possible products, contexts and functions

TASK

PUBLISHING AND BOOK DESIGN

The Dark; Children's Book by Jon Klassen

Monologues for the coming Plague; Graphic Novel by Anders Nilsen

Nobrow 9 'Quiet'; Collection ft Various Artists//Illustrators

Dear Self; Own Zine to be sold at Thought Bubble

Oh Comely; Interview with Illustrator Kaye Blegvad

PRODUCT AND PACKAGING 

IKEA 'Tree Bark' Noteblock

Charlotte Mei 'BRB' cap

Lize Medding wooden pin bought at Thought Bubble 2014

Scottish Shortbread tin from M&S 2013

Mibo 2015 calendar 

CHARACTER AND NARRATIVE

Mingjue Helen Chen's Monkey King as featured in the book LOVELY; Ladies of Animation

David Colman character sketches for his Character Design book 'Bears

Concept art for Disney's Rapunzel by Glen Keane

Face Sculpts for Laika's Paranorman

Amelie Flechais' book Le Petit Loup Rouge

EDITORIAL AND REPORTAGE 

Sam Taylor for NME Magazine

Laura Carlin for 'Inside a Rape Trial' by Barbara Toner

Anna Kövecses for Diagnosis, The New York Times Magazine

Louise Rosenkrands: Choice of Education

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