Exercise: Flatplan

Using one of the hardback books that you sourced in Part One, create a flatplan of the first eight pages of your selected book. I’ve decided to make a flatplan for a cookbook. I think it’s perfect for this task because there’re many illustrations in this book. I didn’t want to make a flatplan for the

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Assignment one Introducing yourself – ‘zine

This first assignment is about introducing yourself so that your tutor can get to know you, your interests and your work better.  Design an eight-page simple folded and stapled fanzine that says something about who you are, your interests in books and your wider cultural influences or interests. Use text and image material you have

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Exercise: Working to a brief

The Brief: ‘Identity’ Using ‘Identity’ as your theme, create several images which explore aspects of your self Generating ideas Thumbnail sketches Illustrations For this exercise I’ve decided to draw three illustrationns for the three main types of identification. 1) Physical appearance 2) Biological identity 3) Personal identity    Physical appearance Everybody knows the old idiom: don’t judge a book by its cover. It’s

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Research point: Fanzines

Mersey beat This fanzine was founded by one of John Lennon’s classmates and helped the Beatles become the biggest band in the world.   Sniffin Glue Sniffin Glue was the first official punk fanzine started by Mark Perry in July 1976 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/sniffin-glue-a-fanzine-that-epitomized-punk-a7023131.html   Ripped & Torn Home   Artcore Fanzine Artcore Fanzine is a punk zine first published in January 1986. It’s one

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Exercise: Folding

As a designer, you need to have an understanding of the processes involved in creating a book. Some of these processes remain essentially the same as in early books, for example folding paper to form pages and binding these together to form a spine.    I folded the A4 sheet of paper in half twice

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Exercise: Influentional books

Think about the influence of books globally.  In your learning log, create a short list of books, with accompanying images, which you believe to be important in a global context. Global: Objective   Excluding the Bible and the Quran we can add other religions holy books on this list.   The Tripitaka The Tripitaka is

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Assessment Illustration Level 1

Contents: • A selection of my favorite work • Assignments • Reflection of the whole course • Tutor reports • Sketchbook A selection of my favorite work  A small description, few images and a link where you can get to the post with particular task and read more about it.  Exercise: The history of illustration Link: https://karen-loz.com/2015/05/exercise-the-history-of-illustration/ For

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Assignment five: Seven days

The brief The title is Seven days. These can be the seven days of the week or random days that tell a story. Your interpretation can be objective or subjective. You can produce seven separate, one large diagrammatic or a continuous strip illustration. You need to write yourself a brief that is clear and challenging

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Exercise: Educational strip

You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty. You can decide on which aspect you want to tackle. Due to the subject matter and the intended age group it is suggested that you

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Exercise: Travel guides

Your brief is to produce three illustrations for a series of book jackets, at the size of an existing travel guide, for the locations Istanbul, Helsenki and Milan. The client would like you to create illistrations in wich many elements are brought toggether in a diagrammatic way. They would also like the type to be

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