Josh Norris OCA logbook

Assignment 1: Say Hello This is the first assignment of illustration 1. It is all about telling my tutor about me with a greetings card. I had to include my: interests, inspirations, the materials I'm comfortable with and like to use and the things I want to get out of this course. I began how I start every exercise and assignment. In my sketchbook. With this assignment, in particular, I created a spider diagram of everything about me. I was quite loose with it initially but then took everything and made a concise list. Things like my general interests were relatively easy and came to me quite quickly. What took slightly longer was my inspiration, I feel that with things that inspire us we don't necessarily recognise them straight away. Spider Diagram I have quite a few interests in my day to day life, I love food, and eating is one of my favourite past times, I also love technology, I'm really interested in computers and software and watch quite a lot of videos ...

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...