• This brief exercise highlighted how to effectively communicate an idea or a single word, in such a small space, using a variety of
different images and concepts, pushing and iterating designs further than originally planned.
Pinterest Board - Editorial Inspiration:
• Firstly, I conducted some research into existing editorial illustrations and identified what makes them work / successful.
• I looked at the work of John Holcroft, Davide Bonazzi, David Doran, Jun Cen, Francesca Sanna and Jeannie Phan.
• The most compelling illustrations used limited colour palettes, simplistic shapes, minimal detailing and visual metaphors
in their communication. There was no clear indication of whether a digital or analogue process was more successful.
in their communication. There was no clear indication of whether a digital or analogue process was more successful.
• I will be taking these elements into consideration when creating my own responses to my article.
My Article:
• I had a look around the web to see if the article I was provided with had its own original illustration,
to examine which areas the paid editorial illustrator had chosen to capture and in which way.
• I found that my article is a recent opinion piece by George Monbiot, titled "We'd never kill an
albatross or gorilla: but we let others do i on our behalf."
• The illustration was by Andrzej Krause who focused on the concept of over-fishing.
• Admittedly, I don't really like the aesthetics of this illustration - the colours used or the style - and
even though it is a good metaphor to communicate visually, I feel the overall design ruins the message.
• In my opinion, the work doesn't look very professional for an editorial piece - looking more like
something from Quentin Blake that would be in one of Roald Dahl's children's books instead.
• That's not to say that children's book illustration is 'bad' - it is my favourite kind of illustration! I just don't find it successful for this article.
• I hope to be able to communicate the article in a much more suitable and fitting way, with an air of
seriousness and sophistication to marry with the reality of the hard-hitting article.
Initial Sketches:
• These are the initial sketches in response to my article after identifying key words and phrases.
• I repeated some designs to problem solve which worked better with which proportions.
• I wanted to be exhaustive with how I communicated the article so that my roughs
were as good as they can be - clearly relating to the source material.
• Using inspiration from the Pinterest board I created, I tried to work with simplistic shapes and compositions as much as possible.
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