Josh Norris OCA logbook

The history of illustration:     In this exercise, I will look at how illustration has changed and evolved over the last 50 years. To do this I will look at one illustrator and research their work. Puzzled Lion and Startled Unicorn The artist I chose to study and research was Edward Bawden , coincidentally he is the first artist on the list, but I promise this was not the deciding factor. That was his work, he has painted all over the world and even during WW2. He was an English painter admired by many graphic designers, he painted several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. Early work: He produced tiles for the London Underground that were exhibited at the International Building Trades Exhibition in April 1928, this was at a time where wages were £1 a day. One of Bawden's most familiar designs from this era was the "Puzzled Lion and Startled Unicorn" this was created around 1939 In his later life Edward become a war artist and that's the...

This is the editorial I chose to read, its a topic that I'm deeply saddened by and very interested in. Its all about the conflict in Yemen. I could not find the author of this piece of investigative journalism but it was published on the Guardian's website. I read it once on the website then brought into Blogger to highlight the keywords. The suffering of civilians in Yemen is not only the world’s worst humanitarian crisis . It is a crime . Nobel peace laureate Tawakkol Karman says her country is being “systematically destroyed”. Half of the country’s 22 million inhabitants are on the brink of starvation ; 1.8 million children are severely malnourished. For many it is already too late . The United Nations predicts this could become the worst famine for a century. There were warnings of famine before the war broke out almost four years ago; even then, Yemen imported almost all of its food. Conditions have since deteriorated unimaginably. The official death toll has been st...