Seminar 4: 20 Images

 

• These are the 20 images I chose for today's seminar. I tried to focus on art with a political tone as much as possible, though struggled to find work from different illustrators. Through websites such as Pinterest, Creative Bloq, It's Nice That and Google images politically-charged illustrations from the same few illustrators kept appearing making the search more limited. Is this proving Zeegen's quote?

• What initial questions do I want to explore in my essay...Is illustration dead? What does it stand for anymore? What is design thinking? (A design process for illustration about concept and ideas, process over ideas?) What does it mean to be a designer? (Illustrators are designers too?) What do the AOI determine to be illustration? What does Lawrence Zeegen himself define as illustration? What does Varoom consider to be illustration and what is their opinion of style and content?

• I came across these quotes, from AZ Quotes, during my image search regarding form and function. These may be useful for the development of my essay as starting reference points. They don't necessarily agree with Zeegen's remark on how function now follows form in recent illustration and this can create a more interesting argument.

• Going forward I now need to select 3 of the most successful illustrative examples that either prove or disprove Zeegen's point of illustration being 'done'. I want to be able to compare and contrast and go back and forth; so do not want to be in favour of only one side. This will make a stronger essay in order to draw my own conclusions.