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Troubling interfaces: illustration interventions
The students from Kingston University and Arts University Bournemouth collaborate on illustrative interventions into the Amazon interface
Lockdown experiences comic by Pat WingShan Wong
The illustrator talks about her 44-page comic intertwining the digital and the physical experiences of isolation, repetitiveness, and loneliness
Exploring identity and the sense of place
Excerpts from Yeni Kim's keynote presentation at the 2025 Illustration Research symposium
Speculative mapping
Drawing interventions into a public 3D scan archive
3D modelling in scientific world-building
Visual cliches and tropes of science discussed by an illustrator, a physician, and a physicist
Robots and drawing
In her PhD work, Verity Winslow reconstructs Stanley Donwood's work using a drawing machine
The painful-looking thorned pencil pictured evokes a contradiction: to draw or not to draw, for doing so will surely incur pain. Its maker, Hilde Kramer, said, ‘I had made it many years ago without any plan, just as a surreal object, and it was one of the inspirations for why I thought investigating 3D objects could be a good idea’. Eventually, War Pencilwould be included among other object illustrations (3D representations) and soundworks to illuminate ‘the dark mechanisms and traumas of war’. These works were part of a remarkable multi-year research programme that Kramer began orchestrating in 2018: Illuminating the Non-Representable: Exploring Artistic, Ethical and Authorial Challenges through Research in Illustration (IN-R). Portions of this research series comprise two special issues of Volume 11 of the Journal of Illustration. Read more>>>
Journal of Illustration
Preface to the first Special Issue
by Jaleen Grove
by Jaleen Grove
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EDITORIAL:
Illuminating
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Illuminating
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ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures
On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures
We invite submissions of full manuscripts or expressions of interest (300 word abstract) from those who have participated at the symposium, in any capacity, and from those who are inspired by the themes. Please consider the submission of articles, research, critical and visual essays based on practice-based research on the diverse ways illustration and heritage are connected.
On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium explored the role illustration plays in cultural heritage: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures
We invite submissions of full manuscripts or expressions of interest (300 word abstract) from those who have participated at the symposium, in any capacity, and from those who are inspired by the themes. Please consider the submission of articles, research, critical and visual essays based on practice-based research on the diverse ways illustration and heritage are connected.
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APPARATUS: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ILLUSTRATION
15TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
21–22 NOVEMBER 2025, KOÇ UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL
Machines, appliances, gizmos, and contraptions have always been a part of illustration, enabling illustrators to transform their thoughts into real-life forms. The machine’s abilities, aesthetics, and impacts on humanity have always been a source of inspiration and concern. With the discussion raging around artificial intelligence as a game-changing technology, and when computers seem to inextricably serve as parts of creation and of our lives, perhaps it is time to take stock and consider the long-established but fluctuating relationship between illustration and the machine.
15TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
21–22 NOVEMBER 2025, KOÇ UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL
Machines, appliances, gizmos, and contraptions have always been a part of illustration, enabling illustrators to transform their thoughts into real-life forms. The machine’s abilities, aesthetics, and impacts on humanity have always been a source of inspiration and concern. With the discussion raging around artificial intelligence as a game-changing technology, and when computers seem to inextricably serve as parts of creation and of our lives, perhaps it is time to take stock and consider the long-established but fluctuating relationship between illustration and the machine.
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This journal presents papers resulting from the international collaboration, and artistic research project Illuminating the Non-Representable, coordinated and led by professor of illustration, Hilde Kramer.
This cross disciplinary project, over a period of 3 years, delivered a range of symposia and projects exploring the boundaries of representation now and in the past, but also the role of illustration in breaking taboos or revealing truths. The project brought a wealth of papers resulting in Volume 11 consisting of two issues (issue 2 out early 2025)
This cross disciplinary project, over a period of 3 years, delivered a range of symposia and projects exploring the boundaries of representation now and in the past, but also the role of illustration in breaking taboos or revealing truths. The project brought a wealth of papers resulting in Volume 11 consisting of two issues (issue 2 out early 2025)
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