^Views of the visitors
Nina Chakrabarti~ Hello Nature: Draw, Colour, Make & Grow.
An exhibition exposing the captivating purposes of illustration such as advertising, branding, editorial, publishing and children's books. The piece above are illustrations for interactive activity books, engaging people from age 6 to 77, encouraging people to explore the world around us and to become closer with nature. It is obvious that attention was paid towards the content, structure and the pages with an individual style that a variety of people can relate to.
Suju Cao~ People Mountain People Sea
I am fond of this self-initiated illustration that is inspired by the contemporary Chinese city life, reported as overpopulated and chaotic by Western media. Each pattern is seamless, illustrating overpopulation, each has a unique visual order, revealing the often overlooked beauty and structure of everyday life.
Olivier Kugler~ Escaping Wars & Waves: The Calais "Jungle" Camp
The illustrations here serve to present the research of the circumstances of Syrian refugees whereby speech bubbles, annotations and the imagery manifest the interviews. The imagery is very layered and most of the imagery looks incomplete, in a sense that not all has been filled with much detail and colour, which represents the flustered living conditions.
The use of the bulldog grips to suspend the poster detaches the work from the wall, objectifying the work and transforming its dimensions from 2D to 3D. As a result the viewers value the piece as an installation because the grips become part of the exhibit.
A. Richard Allen~ Wave
Cover Image for The Sunday Telegraph: Money Section
This encapsulates a sense of anxiety in financial markets caused by Trump's election victory. The image therefore pastiches Hokusai's 'Wave', that is highly recognisable, and manipulates the motif to capture moments of danger and uncertainty,
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