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Responding to a Brief - Research 3.3: Typography & Images
In this research task, I had to select a range of books and/or magazines that use illustration, taking in and comparing how they use...

Dan Woodward
Oct 22, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 3.2: The Metamorphosis
For this research task, I was asked to look into the visual interpretations of Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung). I...

Dan Woodward
Oct 22, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 3.1: Denotation and Connotation
Introduction For this research task I managed to find a high-resolution copy of both images. This allowed me to zoom in closer to take...

Dan Woodward
Oct 7, 20232 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 2.5: Us and Them
Introduction This research task asked me to discover and select a range of images where illustrators have created a sense of 'them and...

Dan Woodward
Aug 8, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 2.4: Imaging Technologies and Illustration
Introduction When I first went to university as a teenager I went to study medicine. We had the chance to study holistic elective topics...

Dan Woodward
Aug 4, 20239 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 2.3: Architectural Illustrators
For this exercise I needed to look at a range of different architectural illustrators, select examples and outline my observations on...

Dan Woodward
Jul 27, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 2.2: Fashion Illustration 1950-1990
The 'Golden Age' of fashion illustration where it peaked in its breadth of use in modern media was the first quarter of the 20th century...

Dan Woodward
Jul 17, 20233 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 2.1: Courtroom Dramas
For this exercise, I was tasked to look into the quick-paced reportage of courtroom sketch artists, specifically Franklin McMahon. His...

Dan Woodward
Jun 15, 20236 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 1.4: Flat surface design
In this research task, I needed to find examples of illustrators who have made designs for flat surfaces and explore how they play with...

Dan Woodward
May 30, 20234 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 1.3: Visual Language
Throughout my degree, I have collected visual references and imagery. I have never really been one to keep visual diaries or grab files,...

Dan Woodward
May 15, 20231 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 1.2: My own work
For this research point, I was asked to review my own work in order to identify work that best reflects a personal voice. I store all of...

Dan Woodward
May 15, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 1.1: Who’s out there and what are they doing?
For this research task, I have been asked to familiarise myself with what is going on in the industry at the moment and to pick out...

Dan Woodward
May 14, 202317 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 3.4: Paper Toys
For this research task, I was asked to find examples of artists that use 'paper models' in their work, document examples and think about...

Dan Woodward
Jun 16, 20229 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 3.3: Large Scale Image-Making
This research task first started by asking me to view this overview of the Embodied Experience of Drawing conference of 2018: Love how...

Dan Woodward
Jun 15, 20227 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 3.2: Slow TV / Fast & Slow Art
Slow TV The first research task was to search for and document examples of "Slow TV". The notion of Slow TV was a little confusing to me....

Dan Woodward
Jun 1, 20227 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 2.7: Collage Approaches
The essay referenced in the course text was interesting. The first artistic movement it referred to was one that I was not familiar with...

Dan Woodward
Feb 21, 20225 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 2.4: Process Artists
Agnes Martin After researching the work and process of Agnes Martin, what I take away most from the experience is the way her work...

Dan Woodward
Feb 13, 20226 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 2.2: Visual Dynamics
"A line is a dot that went for a walk." - Paul Klee This is one of my favourite quotes and one I often draw on when people remark on...

Dan Woodward
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 1.3: Flow and Play
Some Definitions For this research task, I will be basing my reading and assumptions on these definitions for the states described in the...

Dan Woodward
Nov 23, 202110 min read
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Visual Exploration - Research 1.2: 365 projects
I found this research task a little confusing. It was hard to understand if the learning objective was about using a project to instil a...

Dan Woodward
Nov 15, 20215 min read
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