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This project is structured to reflect the real and professional demands, scope and technical requirements of producing editorial illustration; i.e. illustration for publication in magazines, books and journals for print.

Students will respond to a given text and produce rough ideas and finished artwork files to a schedule and with consideration of print and reproduction issues, technique and appropriateness for purpose and format

Students will be given a short text, with an indicative brief outlining a methodology by which original narrative solutions will be generated. The initial period of intensive idea generation will be accompanied by a series of workshops in Adobe InDesign, four-colour process printing, imposition, pagination, collation and binding of Olio magazine, and related issues such as colour reproduction on print- (CMYK) and screen(RGB) -based media. The ideas will be presented in a real-time, experiential context in a ‘commission by client’ role play. The student will be assessed on their professional attitude and conduct, correct technical presentation and their original, appropriate and resolved editorial illustrations, rendered in a technique suitable for CMYK print production.

A student passing this module should be able to:

1.     Critically examine and analyse the cultural and professional context and requirements of contemporary editorial Illustration practice.

2.     Demonstrate a dynamic mastery of the creative mechanisms of illustration and visually communicate complex content using both traditional skills and new technologies.

3.     Position their creative practice in an editorial illustration context, meet deadlines and demonstrate a positive, professional approach towards negotiating creative boundaries in a client-provider situation.

4.     Demonstrate a mastery of page layout, image formatting and PDF export in Adobe InDesign.

5.     Produce a print-ready PDF to specified resolution, page size and format.

6.     Offer a resolved, effective and original editorial illustration solution that answers defined communication objectives.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.