Ouil505 proposal 2017

Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION OUIL505 ILLUSTRATION 2: Applied Illustration

Level

05

Credits 30

Module Brief Title: Product, Range & Distribution

STUDIO BRIEF 1: Project Proposal Project Rationale What do you intend to do and why?

I intend to design 6 book covers with a storage box. I am interested in doing something related to history, possibly poetry as I know quite a lot about it and I am very interested in it. I also like the idea of doing book covers based on classical composers, or maybe even fashion through time as I am very interested in 17-1800’s. I also like the idea of doing the 125’th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holme’s publication as they are my favourite books and I know a lot about them .

THEMES / SUBJECTS What Themes/Subjects will form the content of your work for this module? This should include theoretical and non-creative based content and concerns. This section should identify your consideration of the social, cultural, ethical and creative concerns of contemporary Illustration practice.

GENERAL THEMES: I am not fully settled on what I want to do yet so it would be hard to pick some ‘themes or subjects’ at this stage. All I know is that I am considering doing some painting and dependent on what I choose to make covers for, it will either be very colourful or dark. I can’t really comment on what I am considering for the social, cultural or ethical bit because I haven’t settled on a specific idea and to be honest, I don’t think the ideas I have so far have anything to do with any of these words.

SPECIFIC SUBJECTS:

PRACTICAL & CONCEPTUAL APPLICATION What areas of Illustration do you intend to investigate in relation to the practical and conceptual, production/ distribution of work in response to selected briefs?

SPECIFIC DISCIPLINARY AREA: Publishing for adults.

AUDIENCE/CONTEXTS: Late teen and up.

PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION METHODS: Posters, book jackets, billboards, tote bags.

CONTEXTUAL REFERENCES Identify areas of professional/creative practices that will inform the contextualization of the work that you produce. This should include specific illustrators, studios, practitioners and products as well as broader creative disciplines and methods of Production /Distribution.

ILLUSTRATORS / DESIGNERS / STUDIOS:

Penguin NoBrow Folio Society Jeremy Bastian Marco Mazzoni Georgina Taylor Sam Weber Tran Nguyen

CREATIVE SKILLS What practical skills do you intend to further develop and apply during your project? What do you intend to use the skills for? Consider extending the use of skills that you already have in order to deliver work of a higher standard as well as identifying new skills that you will need to develop.

I intend to do more painting and develop my skills within this medium. In my head I kind of have an idea of what I want my covers to look like and screen print is an idea that is also floating around (but probably not). I am also considering gouache, as I am quite good with it but would like to improve.

KEY TEXTS List a selected number of books, articles and texts that are central to your proposed area of practice. These should include a combination of design and non-practice based books, theoretical texts as well as visual publications.

You should include a list of relevant websites.

A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

OUIL 505 - Project Planner 1

2

Module Briefing Studio Brief 1 Research & Proposal Proposal Planning & Research

3

Proposal Submission/Studio Development week

4

Studio Brief 2 Development & Production

5 Studio Development week 6

Progress Tutorials

7

Group Feedback

8

9

Studio Brief - 3 Presentation & Evaluation Interim Crit

10

EASTER BREAK

11

EASTER BREAK

12

EASTER BREAK

13

Group Feedback

14

Assessment Briefing & Final Crit

15

Module Submission 09/05/2017