PPP Task

Retail and Merchandise

Charlie Wager 

Band posters

Luke Dixon

T-shirts, fashion

Product- Album cover

Harvey Nichols christmas window display

(But all their window displays are amazing!)

Marcus Oakley for Lazy oaf.

Character and Narrative

Lauren Child- Charlie and Lola

Quentin Blake- the Bfg, children's book.

Jack Teagle- Jeff Job Hunter

Judith Kerr- children book

Chicken run- Aardman animations

Editorial and Reportage

Brian Rea- New York Times

Arian Tomine- The New Yorker

Lizzy Stewart- Wrap magazine

Pat Perry- California sunday mag

Jon Klassen-  For National theatre

Product and Packaging

 Collaboration by Óskar Þórðarson, Kjartan Gíslason, Karl Viggó Vigfússon and André Úlfur Visage

Toro Pinto

Hylton Warburton

Brenno Pinto-

Nick Dwyer-

Notes from the session and how they inform the images above-

Context of illustration- where it is

Product- What it is

Function - Why/what does it do?

Can a product be the function? Anything thats physical, conceptual or disciplinary can be the context.

Reportage is a disciplinary context, but it can also be a function because it responds to a text and also becomes a product.

1. Drawing is a process/investigation (media, line, translation.) This becomes...

2. Image making when we add visual language (composition, shape, texture, colour etc)

3. It becomes illustration when it communicates a message/solves a problem. When in response to a brief. Illustration is all about the brief.

Session 1-reflective practice and professional contexts

Who makes the rules? Question this, try and figure it out. Its hard to define what illustration is, so I must continue to ask questions and figure out what fits and what doesn't. 

Allow events to change me. 

I must be willing to grow.

I must learn to benefit from my practice because I do it for myself, free lance, its about exploring my own personal potential.

Think about who I would want to work for, and whether working for them will benefit my practice, whether it will support my own views and continue to hep me grow as a practitioner. 

At least 50% of what we define as illustration is defined by people out there, not us. 

Networking will become very important. I must always be aware of the requirements.

What do I need to learn? 

How do I know that I've learnt it?

Whats driving/informing me?

Level 5 is a time to individualise my own practice.

KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS. Questions are positive things.