Module I – Complex Character

Complex Character Design on Pablo Picasso

You are asked to design an A2 format poster profiling one of the characters listed below. (…)

Marie Stopes: author, campaigner for women’s rights; Shami Chakrabati: director of Liberty, pressure group campaigning for civil liberties; Charles Dickens: author, campaigner for social reform; Eric Gill: type designer, illustrator, unorthodox parent; Adolf Hitler: German chancellor 1933-45; Eddie Izzard: comedian, political campaigner; Stephen Fry: actor, author, technophile, twitterer; Silvio Berlusconi: controversial prime minister of Italy; Stephen Hawking: theoretical physicist; Pablo Picasso: artist; Amy Winehouse: singer, songwriter; Alfred Hitchcock: film director; Peter Mandelson: politician; read more »

Module I – Big figure

Working as a team you are asked to construct a largescale full figure portrait of a given character.

You must use black white and/or shades of grey. Additional colour can be used, but only where it signals specific information relating to the personality of that character (so to make the signal clear colour should be used sparingly).

It will be constructed of 27 separate A4 sheets that will be bluetacked/taped in position on the studio wall (…), this is to allow you to work on individual components (to an agreed plan) and also to encourage you to use the whole of the picture plane to communicate as much about the character, and in as varied a way as possible. read more »

Module I – Object Brief

Final Design by Laura Crouch and Julian Deborré

Following a series of seminars about the use, history and techniques of illustration we started working on a group project. Each group was given an object and after exploring the item using photographic and illustrative techniques we were given our brief. read more »