The brief is to: Produce three illustrations that visually communicate your response to a given text. Your illustrations should be produced using 2 colours plus stock (background colour). Designed to work in 200x200mm, 105x200mm and 290x105mm.
We were shown some work done by editorial illustrators which allowed us to analyse how they had responded to their given articles. Jullien goes out of her way to make her illustrations as simple yet as easy to read and effective as possible, for example this illustration shows a man who has been on his iPhone for too long and has resulted in sunburn. Aspinall's work has more depth, with the illustration being split into three small scenes with more going on in each. His work uses three colours, so it would be helpful to use him as reference when figuring out a colour way to use for the end illustration that I produce.
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| Jean Jullien |
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| Marc Aspinall
My article is entitled 'Apple, Facebook pay female employees to freeze eggs'. It is explaining how large male dominated companies, particularly those within 'silicon valley' are considering opening up the possibility of offering to freeze female employees eggs, so that they do not have to worry about the consequences of starting a family affecting the success in their career.
Obviously this is an article which could easily spring up an ethical debate about sexism, unnatural conception, womens rights etc which are all very broad concepts which could be challenging to illustrate- especially without the use of words.
I struggled to get started on some ideas today, maybe due to being slightly overwhelmed with having a fresh article to dissect and have the pressure to produce good ideas from it which effectively communicate visually to the viewer. We have to produce 5 roughs/scamps for each measurement box by Friday so in the mean time I will further explore the article and attempt to come up with some interesting visual responses.
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