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Key Steps Part 1
Exercise: The history of illustration
Exercise: Getting the gist
Assignment one: Saying hello
Key Steps Part 2
Exercise: Writing a brief
Exercise: Spider diagrams
Exercise: Turning words into pictures
Exercise: Making a moodboard
Exercise: Using reference
Exercise: Exploring drawing and painting
Exercise: An objective drawing
Exercise: A subjective drawing
Exercise: Using black and white
Exercise: Choosing content
Exercise: Visual metaphors
Assignment two: Point of sale display
Key Steps Part 3
Exercise: Illustrating visual space
Exercise: Reading an image
Exercise: Image development
Exercise: Abstract illustration
Exercise: Giving instructions
Exercise: Viewpoint
Exercise: Client visuals
Exercise: Making a mock-up
Assignment three: A poster
Key Steps Part 4
Exercise: Identifying tools and materials
Exercise: Museum posters
Exercise: A children’s book cover
Exercise: A menu card
Exercise: A tattoo
Exercise: Visual distortion
Exercise: Character development
Assignment four: Magazine illustration
Key Steps Part 5
Exercise: Your own work
Exercise: Editorial illustration
Exercise: Travel guides
Exercise: Text and image
Exercise: Packaging
Exercise: Working for children
Exercise: Educational strip
Assignment five: Seven days
Sketchbooks Assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Thinking about… Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 2
Returning to Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 5
Creative Book Design Assignments
Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Feedback 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 2
Feedback 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 3
Feedback 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
Feedback 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 5
Feedback 5
Creative Book Design Part 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Research task: Artists’ books and fanzines
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Sketchbooks Part 1
Research task 1.0
Research task 1.1
Exercise 1.0
Exercise 1.1
Exercise 1.2
Exercise 1.3
Creative Book Design Part 2
Exercise 1
Research task: Book terminology
Exercise 2
Research task: Paper and bookbinding
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Sketchbooks Part 2
Research task 2.0
Exercise 2.0
Exercise 2.1
Research task 2.1
Exercise 2.2
Exercise 2.3
Exercise 2.4
Research task 2.2
Exercise 2.5
Exercise 2.6
Creative Book Design Part 3
Exercise 1
Research task: The Golden Section
Exercise 2
Research task: Choosing a typeface
Exercise 3
Research task: Sourcing images
Creative Book Design Part 4
Research task: Exploring artists’ books
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Sketchbooks Part 3
Research 3.0
Research 3.1
Exercise 3.0
Exercise 3.1
Exercise 3.2
Research 3.2
Research 3.3
Exercise 3.3
Research 3.4
Exercise 3.4
Research 3.5
Exercise 3.5
Creative Book Design Part 5
Research task: Book fairs
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Key Steps Feedback and research
Feedback 1
Saul Steinberg
Isidro Ferrer
Feedback 2
Artist research
Feedback 3
Constellations
John Stezaker
Feedback 4
Noma Bar
Pierre Bernard
Returning to Museum Posters
Feedback 5
Key Steps Exhibitions, Books and Research
The BFG in Pictures
30th Great Sheffield Art Show
Print workshop
Moco Museum
Creative Book Design Research & Reflection
Introduction
Research task: Artists’ books and fanzines
Research task: Book terminology
Research task: Paper and bookbinding
Research task: The Golden Section
Research task: Choosing a typeface
Research task: Exploring artists’ books
Research task: Book fairs
Sketchbooks Part 4
Research 4.0
Research 4.1
Exercise 4.0
Exercise 4.1
Research 4.2
Exercise 4.2
Exercise 4.3
Research 4.3
Exercise 4.4
Creative Book Design Exhibitions, Books & Extras
#OCAtober
Printing
Pentagram
Navigating a bookshop
Paperwork and Fingerprint No. 2
Theatre of the Self by Delpha Hudson
Sam Winston
Jean McEwan
The New Concrete
Sketchbooks Part 5
Sketchbook circle reflections
Exercise 5.0
Research 5.0
Exercise 5.1
Exercise 5.2
Exercise 5.3
Sketchbooks Research
Helen Snell
Rabley Drawing Centre
Kate Black, Lesley Hicks and Barbara Sykes
Reading: Reportage Illustration: Visual Journalism
Helen Oxenbury
Drawing challenge
Brooklyn Art Library: Small Talks
Reading: Children’s picturebooks
Tree of Codes, A Humument, and Woman’s World
Sketchbooks Reflections & Notes
The Everyday: Thinking about ‘the everyday’
Reflection: Part 1
Feedback: Part 1
Reflection: Part 2
Feedback: Part 2
Reflection: Part 3
Reflection: Part 4
Feedback: Part 4
Reflection: Part 5
Feedback: Part 5
Sketchbook circle reflections
Feedback 5
Assignment 5
The New Concrete
Jean McEwan
Exercise 5
Exercise 4
Exercise 3
Sam Winston
Theatre of the Self by Delpha Hudson
Exercise 2
Exercise 1
Research task: Book fairs
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