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 Project Rationale. (what do you intend to do and why?) I want to work around the idea of turning diseases into mascots. By personifying diseases, and creating a series of products around the mascot I can create multiple ranges of products from Games to Kitchen Ware.
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 practice GENERAL THEMES:
Social & Historical
SPECIFIC SUBJECTS: Education, Tudor period, Diseases, Hygiene, Sex
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: Character & Narrative (sub area, project and packaging)
AUDIENCE/CONTEXTS: 16+ Older children and Young adults being able to both entertain and educate themselves on Historical Diseases and how they thrived in medieval European society.
PRODUCTION / DISTRIBUTION METHODS: Museums London/York Dungeon Amazon Firebox Alternative Gift Shops 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, practitioner’s and products as well as broader creative disciplines and methods of Production / Distribution. ILLUSTRATORS / DESIGNERS / STUDIOS: No Brow Ben Newman (Astro Cat) Horrible Histories Martin Brown Terry Deary An Unreliable History of tattoos – Paul Thomas 750 Years in Paris – Vincent Mahé All My friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen & Jory John Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam mansback 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.
Digital Design Developing images Colour Theory/ Practice
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
https://www.topatoco.com http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/sweatingsickness.htm http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/tudor-disease-ailments/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis#European_outbreak http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/10/1454.full History of Syphilis by Claude Quetel http://tudortimes.co.uk
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Project Planner 1
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Module Briefing Studio Brief 1 Research & Proposal
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Proposal Submission
5
Studio Brief 2 Development & Production
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9 EASTER 10 11
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Studio Brief 3*
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Module Submission 09/ 05 / 2016