3.12.2019
Illustration Across Media: Nineteenth Century To Now
Organized by the DB Dowd Modern Graphic History Library and the Norman Rockwell Museum, this symposium brings together scholars from across the humanities and the arts to explore the history, context, and theory of illustration in the United States from the nineteenth century to now.
As a set of practices and a cultural force, illustration emerged in the nineteenth century as a new and distinctly modern phenomenon. A vital component of the visual cultures of advertising, design, publishing, and entertainment, illustration is omnipresent in modern America. Yet its historical, contextual, and theoretical specifics—from modes of production, distribution, reception, and repetition to mandates of communication and consumption—remain relatively unexamined by scholars, art critics, and practitioners. Likewise, a taxonomy of the field—shared definitions of illustration, for example—is lacking. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers across multiple fields including art history, history, visual and material culture studies, American Studies, consumer studies, book arts, childhood studies, literary criticism, media studies, and more who would like to join others in constructive conversations focused on developing the emergent field of illustration studies. REGISTER HERE. The deadline for registration is Friday, March 15.
1.01.2019
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen & Milkmen
Forty years ago, Raymond Briggs used a pot of coloured pencils to create The Snowman, a wordless book of illustrations which would inspire the film enjoyed by millions of British households every Christmas. His timeless story of the friendship between a young boy and a Snowman continues to delight generation after generation with its effortless blend of warmth, humour and sadness.
After creating an instant classic with The Snowman, Briggs disturbed a generation with his anti-nuclear story When the Wind Blows, enthralled kids and adults alike with Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas and, in recent years, moved readers to tears with Ethel & Ernest, a touching account of his parents' life story.
Raymond Briggs has been celebrating the ordinary and making it extraordinary for five decades. And the characters he has created have been both popular and influential. As Nick Park says in the film, he couldn't imagine Wallace and Gromit without the experience of reading Briggs's books. This playful, moving and often emotional portrait is told through interviews with Raymond, specially commissioned animation illustrated by Chris Riddell, and contributions from friends, colleagues and admirers, including Andy Serkis, Nick Park, Steve Bell and Posy Simmonds.
11.11.2018
Illustration Research Symposium: Decriminalising Ornament: The Pleasure of Pattern
Decriminalising Ornament
:The Pleasures of Pattern
9th International Illustration Research symposium
17th and 18th of november 2018
hosted by Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
The 9th International Illustration Research Symposium
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
November 17-18th, 2018
This two-day research conference explores the nature of pattern and ornament within the context of illustration, printing and publishing and explores ideas and asks questions around its current state of appreciation, meaning and usage. Within the context of practice based research, international researchers, academics and practitioners will present their work and discuss their ideas.
Alongside the conference there will be a Research Exhibition, featuring a collaborative installation by the graphic designer Hansje van Halem and printer/publisher Jan de Jong, as well as the research practice related to pattern and ornament of 13 contributing artists.
confirmed keynote speakers
- Dr Alan Powers, Art historian, Researcher, Curator and Design Writer.
Following a degree in History of Art from Cambridge, Alan received his doctorate on Architectural Education in Britain 1880-1914. He is a prolific writer for magazines and author of numerous books, amongst others Enid Marx, The Pleasures of Pattern 2018), Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities (2003), Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design (2006) , Children's Book Covers, Great Book Jacket and Cover Design (2003). He has curated popular exhibitions, including Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art, House of Illustration (2018); Eric Ravilious, Imperial War Museum (2003); and Eros to the Ritz: 100 Years of Street Architecture, Royal Academy (2013).
As professor of architecture and cultural history at the University of Greenwich, Alan taught architectural history and theory for undergraduate and diploma courses from 1999-2012, and has been a frequent external examiner for PhD and other higher degrees.
- Dr Alice Twemlow, Design Writer, Critic and Educator.
Twemlow earned a Ph.D from the History of Design program run as a joint venture by the Royal College of Art and the V & A Museum in London. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). In 2006 Twemlow became the chair and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Design Criticism.
Alive Twemlow is a prolific writer and has written for amonst others Eye, Design and the New York magazine Twemlow and contributed to online publication such as Voice and AIGA Journal of Design.
Twemlow is currently head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, Lector Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague and Senior University Lecturer (guest) at Leiden University
Ornament : a thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose . Verb: to make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.
— The Oxford Living Dictionary (online)
“Ornament is no longer a natural product of its culture, and
therefore represents backwardness or even a degenerative tendency.”
therefore represents backwardness or even a degenerative tendency.”
— Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime, 1908
In 1908 Adolf Loos declared ornament to be a 'backward' and 'degenerate' activity, counter to the utopian, ‘rationalist’ aims of the modernist movement, and called for it to be criminalised. This puritanical stance towards the decorative can be seen as a historical echo of the protestant Reformation in Europe which conflated decorative imagery in churches with corruption and decadent idolatry; the whitewashing of devotional spaces enacted as a form of moral cleansing. In contrast to this fraught relationship with ornament, the Islamic tradition of non-representational art puts great store in the rhythm and mathematics of pattern to express transcendental truths.
This year's Illustration Research Symposium seeks to draw together a range of perspectives on ornament and ornamentation, and its close relatives pattern and the decorative, to explore the resilience, continued value, significance, application, and creation of these cultural forms; celebrating their centrality within human life and cultural production, both past and present, and (speculatively), the future .
Speakers explore the cultural importance of pattern, ornament and decoration. We begin from the observation that what is so often missing is the significance – the meaning – of ornament, which has become lost or eroded, but was once all-pervasive.
The multiple practice-based and theoretical lenses invited to explore the topic, are firmly situated within an expanded definition of illustration, as the place where ornament historically resides as a form of visual production. However, we also have invited contributions which embrace the widest range of cultural, creative and technological perspectives on ornament , including applications of ‘the ornamental ’ found within design, typography, architecture, and ‘other’ contexts.
To decriminalise ornament, is to place it back at the centre of human life, and not at the margins, where it has too long been banished as an unwanted and non-functional excess ; instead celebrating the pleasures of pattern, and our ongoing desire for the decorative.
10.30.2018
Hiii Illustration 2018 International Competition Call for Entries
Hiii Illustration 2018 International Competition call for entries. The competition open to all illustrators, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers from all the world. The Competition has two categories: the Commercial and the Noncommercial. Several international well-known judges will select the winners, consisting of 1 Grand Prix, 20 Best of the Best, and 50 Merit Award. Works that win Grand Prix, Jury Awards, Best of the Best or Merit Awards will be published on the annual of Hiii Illustration.
9.22.2018
MOKITA 'Future Shock' Presentation at ICON10 The Illustration Conference Detroit USA
Darryl Clifton, Geoff Grandfield & Roderick Mills presenting MOKITA Future Shock at the Educators Symposium ICON10 The Illustration Conference Detroit USA 11 July 2018.
10.28.2017
ICON10 The Illustration Conference 2018
Website launched for ICON10 The Illustration Conference Detroit USA July 11 - 14 2018
Documentary Discourse conference UCA Farnham Surrey
Documentary Discourses conference
22nd November 2017 University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
In June 2017 CNN sent courtroom artist William J Hennessy Jr. to a White House briefing following the prohibition on filming and live audio recording of briefings. This form of circumventing restrictions, questions the significance of the illustrative image and illustration practice in relation to contemporary forms of documentary. In turn this action reflects the diverse discourses that arise from contemporary forms of documentary practices, that mediate experiences and knowledge through direct engagement, observation, interviews, reflective experiences, archives and other forms and sources. The strategy of using illustrative methodologies and approaches to document and report the news, perhaps indicates the contemporary relevance and use of the illustrative as a documentary form. While there has been a resurgence in documentary/reportage discussion of its relationship with other documentary forms, practice, research and study has yet to be developed. The one day conference aims to promote inter-disciplinary research and to explore the development of different forms of documentary practices and discourses such as animation, film and photography, in relation to illustration. In particular, to investigate the function and role documentary forms of illustration in contemporary culture in relation to documentary forms of other fields of practice. Invited speakers are drawn from animation, photography, illustration practice and research.
Keynote Speaker: Lainy Malkani http://www.socialhistoryhub.com/
Confirmed Speakers
Gabrielle Cariolle and Paul Roberts, Arts University Bournemouth
Dr Nina Mickwitz London College of Communication University of the Arts London
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett, Birmingham City University
Rachel Gannon, Kingston University
Dr Paul Ward, Arts University Bournemouth
Alys Scott-Hawkins, Arts University Bournemouth
Professor Anna Fox, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Bookings can be made via the UCA Online Store.
Full programme and list of speakers will be online soon.
10.22.2017
Illustration and Identity: Universite de Lorraine, 8-10 November 2017
This conference invites participants to explore the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural means through which illustration, in all of its forms, contributes, and has contributed, through time, to the shaping of ‘identity/ies’.
The study of illustration provides powerful insights into not only the representation, but also the construction of identity – including gender identities, national and political identities, subcultures, hybrid identities and performative identities. Illustrators as cultural agents have the power to both reinforce and problematise ‘the visual vocabulary of politics’ (Steven Heller, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, 2008; rep. 2010) through their use and manipulation of cultural narratives and stereotypes.
Illustrators often navigate several personas when creating artwork – for example the desires of the client, the reception of the audience, and the voices within the text. They may also produce highly personal and subjective work documenting emergent or performed identities in relation to historical, geographical, social, cultural and phenomenological matrices.
We are keen to encourage critical and theoretical frameworks which foster understanding of the cultural relevance of illustration, and to examine the links between book history, print and digital culture and identity. Both practice-led and theoretical papers are welcome.
https://illustridentity.event.univ-lorraine.fr
The 60th Anniversary of the Society of Illustrators Annual
https://www.societyillustrators.org/programs/illustrators-60-call-entries
10.18.2017
10.01.2017
ICON10 The Illustration Conference Detroit 2018
MOKITA are happy to announce participation in the Educators Symposium during ICON10 The Illustration Conference July 11-14 2018 Detroit Michigan USA.
4.20.2017
The Serious, Subversive (And Sometimes Shocking) History of Cartoons
Its been over 100 years since the first cartoons were drawn by hand. Since then, the genre has delved into everything from sex and drugs to racial inequality and war crimes. Even the tamest, G-rated cartoons have often found ways of slipping in adult humor past the eyes of younger viewers.
Cartoons have been the vehicle for government propaganda, social change, and political satire. Some have been boycotted and even banned for their content while others have been deemed masterpieces and praised by critics for their bold message and style.
Today, cartoons continue to find ways of subverting the status quo in surprising (sometimes shocking) new ways. This hour, we speak with animators, animation experts, and historians about what makes cartoons so well suited for the exploration of, well, everything.
GUESTS:
- Maureen Furniss - Program Director of Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts and founding editor of Animation Journal; author of A New History of Animation
- Paul Wells - Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University in England and author of several books including Animation, Sport and Culture
- Ralph Bakshi - Animator, writer, and director of animated and live action films and TV shows including "Fritz The Cat," "Coonskin," and "Heavy Traffic"
- Lisa Hanawalt - Producer and production designer of the Netflix animated series "BoJack Horseman"
Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
3.12.2017
Illustration School - Summer 2017
The Illustration School, based in Porto (Portugal), is an international research and pedagogical platform that aims to investigate the expanded role of the illustrator as researcher, editor, publisher and working across media. Since it was founded in 2016, the school has been providing an environment to examine and explore a variety of different approaches to illustration and the construction of visual narratives, such as calligraphy, architecture, bookbinding, typography, food, collage, textile design, creative writing, printmaking and self-publishing.
With visual research at the centre of its ethos, the school invites various tutors from a diverse range of disciplines and countries, in relation to its multiple objects of study. From conferences, to workshops, seminars, field trips and debate, the courses function as residencies, with tutors adapting to the participants’ needs, education level and expertise. Since 2017, the school is based in the centre of Porto but aims to provide a decentralised education, making use of the city’s many resources and infrastructure.
Contacts
info [AT] illustrationschool.eu
Porto, Portugal
http://illustrationschool.eu
3.08.2017
Making Domains - one-day conference exploring illustration and narrative art
Marking Domains is a one-day conference that explores illustration and narrative art as domain. Examining the contrasting places they are encountered, from the traditional use and location of illustration in print to its new expanded developments beyond the page. Fast developing into a discipline capable of occupying positions once assumed the domain of other practices in art and design, illustration is rarely discussed as a visual form of cultural and social significance. In this conference we will specifically be contrasting illustration in the internal, domestic place of home with the external, public space of the street.
Speakers include Geoff Grandfield, Mireille Fauchon, Graham Rawle, Lotte Crawford, Olivia Ahmad, Paddy Molloy, Robert Sollis and Tom Kelly of the Bogside Artists will deliver a Keynote presentation.
General admission tickets are £10 and are available through Eventbrite.
This conference has been organised by the Department of Illustration Animation, Kingston University and will be held on Friday 7th April 2017, 11.15 – 17.00.
Cinema 1
Institute of Contemporary Arts,
The Mall,
London SW1Y 5AH
UK
Institute of Contemporary Arts,
The Mall,
London SW1Y 5AH
UK
For further information please contact Paddy Molloy at p.molloy@kingston.ac.uk
We hope to see you there.
http://cargocollective.com/markingdomains/Info
CONFIA 2017 International Conference on Illustration and Animation
11-01-2017 ::: CONFIA'S FIFTH EDITION
WELCOME!
WELCOME!
CONFIA is the International Conference on Illustration and Animation at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, organized by School of Design under the auspices of the Masters in Illustration and Animation.This is CONFIA's fith conference after previous editions in Ofir, Porto, Braga and Barcelos.
It is intended to be a pivotal moment in the contemporary discussion of these areas, which have a long tradition and, at the same time, are pioneers in technological innovation. We intend to broadly explore the multidisciplinary space that includes illustration and the animated image, from the construction of the narrative to character development, from art theory to critical reflection on the objects that populate the market and the industry. The conference seeks quality original submissions from artists, the industry and the market as well as from the academic community.
All accepted full papers will be in the conference proceedings (with ISBN). You can find a pdf version of previous proceedings on this website.
http://www.confia.ipca.pt
Illustrating Identity/ies: Illustration and the Construction of Identities
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Illustrating Identity/ies’
‘Illustrating Identity/ies’
An international conference organised by IDEA (Université de Lorraine, France), Illustr4tio and Illustration Research Network
9th-10th November 2017, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Alan Male
https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/content/professor-alan-male
https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/content/professor-alan-male
This conference invites participants to explore the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural means through which illustration, in all of its forms, contributes, and has contributed historically, to the shaping of ‘identity/ies’.
The study of illustration provides powerful insights into not only the representation, but also the construction of identity – including gender identities, national and political identities, subcultures, hybrid identities and performative identities. Illustrators as cultural agents have the power to both reinforce and problematise ‘the visual vocabulary of politics’ (Steven Heller, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, 2008; rep. 2010) through their use and manipulation of cultural narratives and stereotypes.
Illustrators often navigate several personas when creating artwork – for example the desires of the client, the reception of the audience, and the voices within the text. They may also produce highly personal and subjective work documenting emergent or performed identities in relation to historical, geographical, social, cultural and phenomenological matrices.
Illustrators often navigate several personas when creating artwork – for example the desires of the client, the reception of the audience, and the voices within the text. They may also produce highly personal and subjective work documenting emergent or performed identities in relation to historical, geographical, social, cultural and phenomenological matrices.
We are keen to encourage critical and theoretical frameworks which foster understanding of the cultural relevance of illustration, and to examine the links between book history, print and digital culture and identity. Both practice-led and theoretical papers are welcome. Papers may cover any form (book illustrations, extra illustrations, press cartoons, digital art, etc.) or type (decorative, narrative, scientific, technical, historical, educational, satirical, etc.) of illustration from the Early Modern period or Renaissance to the present day.
Subjects for discussion may address (though are not limited to) the following themes and questions:
- The political agenda of illustration/illustrators: illustration as critique and social or political protest
- The illustrator as agitator, mediator, witness and/or opinion former
- The performance and performative aspects of illustration
- Illustrating identity/ies and changing technologies
- The participation of illustration in the construction and definition of individual identity
- The participation of illustration in the construction and definition of collective / cultural / social / political / ethnic identity/ies
- The illustration of historical and ‘grand narratives’ relating to national identity/ies
- The illustrator as agitator, mediator, witness and/or opinion former
- The performance and performative aspects of illustration
- Illustrating identity/ies and changing technologies
- The participation of illustration in the construction and definition of individual identity
- The participation of illustration in the construction and definition of collective / cultural / social / political / ethnic identity/ies
- The illustration of historical and ‘grand narratives’ relating to national identity/ies
Please submit 300 word proposals for a 20 minute presentation to Nathalie Collé (IDEA & Illustr4tio) at nathalie.colle@univ-lorraine.fr and Desdemona McCannon (Illustration Research) at d.mccannon@mmu.ac.uk. Proposals for workshops and poster presentations are also welcome.
Deadline: Monday 15th May 2017.
Deadline: Monday 15th May 2017.
Links:
IDEA, Université de Lorraine https://idea-udl.org/home-english/
Illustr4tio https://illustrationetwork.wordpress.com/
Illustration Research http://www.illustrationresearch.co.uk/
IDEA, Université de Lorraine https://idea-udl.org/home-english/
Illustr4tio https://illustrationetwork.wordpress.com/
Illustration Research http://www.illustrationresearch.co.uk/
Co-organisers:
EA 2338 IDEA, Interdisciplinarité Dans les Études Anglophones, Université de Lorraine
EA 4182 TIL, Texte Image Langage, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
EA 4343 CALHISTE, Cultures, Arts, Littératures, Histoire, Imaginaires, Sociétés, Territoires, Environnement, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis
EA 4363 ILLE, Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, Université de Haute Alsace
EA 2338 IDEA, Interdisciplinarité Dans les Études Anglophones, Université de Lorraine
EA 4182 TIL, Texte Image Langage, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
EA 4343 CALHISTE, Cultures, Arts, Littératures, Histoire, Imaginaires, Sociétés, Territoires, Environnement, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis
EA 4363 ILLE, Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, Université de Haute Alsace
1.25.2017
George Hardie exhibition
Iconic artist George Hardie exhibits at Grand Parade
A free exhibition of the work of George Hardie, the artist behind some of the most iconic album covers of 20th Century, will be held at the University of Brighton between 11 March – 7 April, 2017.
Hardie, a graphic designer, illustrator and educator, trained at St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art and worked as a designer/illustrator for more than 40 years, making illustrations for clients around the world. He was the cover artist behind Led Zeppelin’s debut album Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
George Hardie taught illustration at the University of Brighton from the early 1980s until his retirement in 2014. He continues with PhD students, having become Professor in 1990. He is International Secretary for the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a Royal Designer for Industry.
The exhibition runs Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm (closed Sunday) – 11 March – 7 April
University of Brighton Gallery, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/aadm/2017/01/19/led-zeppelin-and-pink-floyd-cover-artist-shows-work-at-grand-parade-exhibition/
10.30.2016
Penguin Random House UK Student Design Award 2017
#StudentDesignAward2017
Penguin Random House’s annual book cover design competition has launched for 2017 with three new cover briefs and a new website:
- The Adult Fiction Cover Award – Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Adult Non-Fiction Cover Award – Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
- The Children’s Cover Award – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
The award, split over the three prizes above, aims to be an opportunity for students interested in pursuing a career in design to experience real cover design briefs first hand – and gives them the chance to win a work placement with the Penguin Random House Design Studios, as well as £1,000 in prize money.
Open to students studying any subject at any level (full or part time), entries open on Wednesday 18 January and will close on Tuesday 7 March. However, materials are already on the new website for anyone wishing to make a start.
Last year’s competition saw students reimagine A Clockwork Orange, E mil and The Detectives and Caitlin Moran’s How to Be A Woman, with guest judges including David Shrigley and Alexandra Shulman. Commenting on the winning cover for How To Be A Woman, author Caitlin Moran said 'Zachary Wieland’s winning entry was simple, iconic, and so goddamn classy that, for one minute, I actually presumed it was a cover for a US edition I hadn’t seen.'
To find out more, visit www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/designaward.
Read more at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/media/news/2016/october/penguin-random-house-launches-student-design-award-2017/#fWo8lLCZSxZttEc0.99
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/media/news/2016/october/penguin-random-house-launches-student-design-award-2017/
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