Rachel Gannon, Mireille Fauchon

Illustration Research Methods (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

**Shortlisted for the 2021 British Book Design and Production Awards for the Best Jacket / Cover Design**

For years illustration has lacked a strong critical history in which to frame it, with academics and media alike assessing it as part of design rather than a discipline in its own right. Illustration Research Methods addresses this void and adds to a fast-emerging discipline, establishing a lexicon that is specific to discussing contemporary illustration practice and research.

The chapters are broken down into the various roles that exist within the industry and which illustration research can draw from, such as 'Reporting' and 'Education'. In doing so, users are able to explore a diverse range of disciplines that are rich in critical theory and can map these existing research methodologies to their own study and practice.

Supported by a wealth of case studies from international educators, student projects sit alongside those of world-renowned illustrators. Thus allowing users the opportunity to put what they have learnt into context and offering insight into the thinking and techniques behind some of illustrations' greats.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350051454
• Artikelnr.: 68403502

Autorenporträt

Rachel Gannon is an illustrator, educator and currently Course Leader for the BA Illustration Animation course at Kingston University, UK. She has written and presented for Varoom Magazine, Illustration Research and Association of Illustrators Journal. Her practice as an illustrator professionally has seen her work for The Guardian, The Natural History Museum, Tate Modern and Condé Nast. She has worked at numerous educational institutions including Camberwell College of the Arts, Norwich University of the Arts and University of East London, and is currently External Examiner for the BA Graphic Design and Illustration course at Liverpool John Moores University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Illustration research Definitions Illustration as process
Identity Language and terminology The principles of illustration practice
Shifting roles - an expanded practice Can illustration ever be authorless?
A social practice Research into, through and for illustration - a framework
for categorising methods Rigour in illustration Originality in illustration
2. Authorship Tell me a story Narrative components Narrative inquiries -
different ways of thinking of narrative research The autoethnographic
illustrator Adaption and interpretation Picture visual research
Illustrative writing 3. Reporting Illustrator as reporter This is research
How to Drawing from life Sketchbooks Listening Observation A multisensory
lifeworld Walking Me you and everyone else Is this real Reporting the news
4. Crafting Illustration and craft, a happy marriage? 'I already know what
I'm going to do' The meaning in the mark Tools of the trade The meaning of
material The stuff of life Illustration as object, 3d, physical and virtual
form The illustrated object or the object illustration? Collected
Fabricated Immaterial technologies 5. Activism Am I political? Power play
An informed practice The visual identity of protest Detournement The
illustrators joke Who do you think I am? The meme Future visions
Illustration as event Models of behaviour 'How can I help you?' 6.
Education What is your philosophy? What is an education space? Signature
pedagogies Shop talk Learning through illustration Residency as method
Documents of experience Illustration-based research Data visualisation The
language of reliability Interactive illustration 7. Illustration futures
Appendix Proposals Working with others Interviews Reflective practice
Positioning Who benefits? Legacy Informed consent Illustration research