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CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS / CCW
BA [HONS] ILLUSTRATION
PRIMER/ 3RD YEAR COURSE PROJECT / UNIT 10 / 22.06.2011
Introduction:
The Third Year is an opportunity to develop a body of
work that describes your interest, ambitions andprofessional
potential as an illustrator /creative
practitioner. Through Units 9 [context], 10 and 11 you
will identify areas of personal interest through the
personal, course and external projects, gain an
understanding of the contexts for your practice and work
towards the development and production of a professional
portfolio.
Over the previous two years you have undertaken a
structured and productive course that guides /encourages
you through a series of experiences defining the subject,
introducing you to key aspects of the theory and subject
history and giving you a solid understanding of the
fundamental, practical principles that underpin
illustration practice. The third year is the opportunity
to bring that knowledge, excitement, curiosity, skill
together through a set of resolved, well executed,
innovative, playful and ambitious projects.
Your way of researching and developing ideas is a
critically important part of the Third Year experience.
This primer is intended to help kick start that
process. Research for practitioners can mean many things
and as illustrators we are naturally fed by content
that exists outside of us. Research should = the
gathering of abstract information, facts, stories, ideas,
opinions but importantly research for us should also be
about production. This primer is therefore intended to
ask you to make work as part of that process of research
and the development of an idea. Primary research is about
the production of original material, in other words
things that you have generated. Whilst this can refer to
written thoughts and ideas, as a visual, creative
practitioner the emphasis should be on producing and
acquiring visual matter.
Finally, the Third Year is the time when you move towards
becoming more independent, self-sustaining practitioners.
Do not be afraid to seek out solutions and answers to
questions yourself. Have faith in what you know and what
you can do and draw upon the experiences you have had
already, work hard and have fun! Good luck.
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SELECT ONE OF THE PRIMER TASKS TO COMPLETE OVER THESUMMER.
PRIMER TASKS:
1.WALK
A project which encompasses many different
approaches to the city, its places and people by
walking, thinking, writing, drawing, photographing,
filming, collecting, recording, listening.
To think, make, do:
Choose one small part of central London and make it
yours by researching something of the histories of
the area, its architecture, character and people.
Start the process by looking at these resources:
London Walks / http://www.london-
footprints.co.uk/walkslist.htm
Iain Sinclair / http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/
Museum of London / http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk
British Museum / http://www.britishmuseum.org/
British Library (particularly the map room)
http://www.bl.uk/
Local museums
By the end of the summer you should aim to have
substantial [at least a sketchbook] visual material
that you have originated. You should be clear about
what you are going to say through the work, i.e.
what your story is. You should be able to describe
the project concept in 1 or 2 sentences and you
should have enough research material to begin the
development of ideas in relation to the brief from
the first day back in the college.
Other references /thoughts:
London, City of Disappearances, Iain Sinclair
London, The Biography, Peter Ackroyd
Pyschogeography
Walter Benjamins Arcades Project
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674008021
The Poetics of Space, Gaston BachelardInvisible Cities, Italo
Calvino
Guy Debordand ideas of the drive in the Situationist
International
Anthology.
Historic fiction:
Dickens novels such as David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity
Shop, The
Tale of Two Cities etc
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Contemporary fiction:
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Unlundun, China Miville
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark
Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
Olivier Kugler
Paul Hogarth
Films: Blow Up,Antonioni
(fashion photographer/60s London)
London and Robinson in Space, Patrick Kieller
Up the Junction, Peter Collinson (1968, set in Clapham
Junction)
Shopping, Paul W.S.Anderson (1994)
The London Nobody Knows Norman Cohen [1969]
Crash David Cronenburg[1996]
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2. BOOK
A straight forward Illustration project that asks
you to look at narrative, character, mood, tone and
pace
To think, make, do:
Read two of the books from the list and produce
images and gather research/resource materials over
the summer period.
By the end of the summer you should aim to have
substantial [at least a sketchbook] visual material
that you have originated. You will be fully briefed
at the beginning of the year but at that stage youshould have a
substantial amount of visual material
to work with.Please see book list.
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3. PLAY LEARN
An interactive learning project that asks you toproduce an
object, experience or thing that teaches
an audience something concrete
To think, make, do:
Select one of the subjects for research from the
list below and investigate it remorselessly the
aim by the end of the summer should be to have
produced and gathered AND UNDERSTOOD as much about
the subject as possible.You should be able to simply, clearly
and factually
explain it. By the end of the summer you should aim
to have substantial [at least a sketchbook] visual
material that you have originated.
Subjects:
Game Theory
The Aurora Borealis
The Offside Rule in football
The Human Digestion System
Black Holes
Other references /thoughts:
Green Porno with Isabella Rossilini
Johnny Kelly [The seed, film]
Bruno Munari
Heath Robinson
Der Lauf der Dinge [ Fischli and Weiss]
Edward R Tufte
Paul Rand
Galt Toys [60s]
Friedrich Froebel [designed the modern kindergarten system]
Kolb [pedagogic theorist]Ken Robinson [see TED talks]
TED talks
Lizzie Towndrows Bear
Jimmy Patricks tectonic machine
Katie Wheelers tentacle
Jean Tinguely
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Panamarenko
Allofus
UVA
Jason Bruges Studio
The Light surgeons
John Maeda
8VO and Hamish Muir
http://www.howstuffworks.com All watched over by Machines of
Loving Grace Adam Curtis [2011]
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Make Work!
Research is a fundamentally important part of the Third
Year process. You need to record everything that you have
read, looked at and referenced. So remember to keep a
Bibliography and maintain it in the Harvard standard [see
notes, this is mandatory for the Unit 9, 10, 11
submission]. If you start this process now your
assessment hand-ins will be much more straightforward.
Drawing, making, photographing, reading, experimenting,
testing = research.
Make something every day. Having something that you have
produced in front of you, however small or large will be
a spur. Production allows ideas to flourish and grow!
You will always think that you have more time than you
really do! Dont fall in to that trap and get caught out
at critical points in the year.
Hit your deadlines, be disciplined, be professional. Make
a timetable and stick to it. Make lists, give yourself
targets for output and achievement including places to
visit and experience and things to produce in those
places.
Make reflection and evaluation a regular part of your
output. Use your blogs [or equivalent] to record your
research and development, take some time [5 minutes per
day] to describe what is important, interesting and
relevant about the material that you have seen and made.
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