Under the Covers at University College Falmouth

06/03/2009

An exciting line up of leading creative author-illustrator-designers of international repute will take to the stage to share their practice on Friday 13 March at the Illustration Open Forum that is organised annually by University College Falmouth’s MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice.

 

Atlantic Press will be holding their annual book stall at Under the Covers open forum hosted by MA illustration: Authorial Practice at UCF

 

Course Leader Steve Braund writes:

 

Illustration Forum 2009

 

Under the Covers: Convergences in Illustration, Literature and Design

If the conveyance of our literary ideas were reduced to the purely functional design of a till receipt, how impoverished we would be without the joy of experiencing the vision, sensory delights and surprises that transport our imagination through illustration and design: Media not only capable of response and interpretation of existing literature, but also, as evidenced in the burgeoning field of comics and graphic novels, capable of originating literature from within its own domain. But, wherever literature, illustration and design converge, we are faced with the responsible task of searching out a unique and appropriate relationship between the three, specific to each situation. This task, highly charged with creative potential, requires a high degree of sensitivity, for it is a characteristic worth remembering that both illustration and design can look good but still be dysfunctional.

Steve Braund

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