Editorial Illustration

Name: Editorial Illustration
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SKU: 9781350096868
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Context, content and creation

By Andrew Selby

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Editorial Illustration by internationally recognised illustrator and educator Andrew Selby explores the crucial role of editorial illustrators in digital and print media. The book delves into how visuals not only support text but also convey deeper ideas through context and content. Covering ideation, development, and execution under tight editorial deadlines, it discusses the history of illustration as a political and social instrument, use of visual language, symbolism, satire, and sensitive representation of identity and ethics. Practical topics include research, commercial judgement, experimentation, professional conduct, self-promotion, responsibilities, and plagiarism.
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This book is ideal for aspiring and professional editorial illustrators, graphic designers, and anyone interested in visual communication within media. It suits readers seeking practical guidance on creating compelling, context-aware illustrations under editorial constraints.

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Across digital and print media, editorial illustrators create visuals to support text and convey ideas, but there is more to these illustrations than meets the eye.

Internationally-recognised illustrator and educator Andy Selby takes you through the importance of context and content when responding to editorial illustration briefs, explaining how an understanding of visual communication concepts leads to more successful illustrations—all while under the time pressure of editorial briefs.

Covering ideation, development, and execution, this book includes:

A short history of illustration as a political and social tool
How to use visual language, symbolism, and satire, and to what purpose
Representation of identity, ethics, and society—both for impact and sensitive designs
Research, commercial judgement, and experimentation
Professional conduct, self-promotion, responsibilities, and plagiarism

So whether you’re illustrating a news story, summarising new scientific discoveries, or creating an image for a magazine cover, Editorial Illustration will give you the skills to produce striking commercial designs on time and to brief.

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This book offers valuable insight into a professional field that is often underappreciated, providing an in-depth reference on editorial illustration. Reviewers from Blog de l'Escola de Llibreria and Communication Arts praise its comprehensive approach, making it ideal for those wishing to understand the process, power, and objectives behind editorial art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350096868

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 December 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 230 colour illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 268.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 224

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Andrew Selby Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Andy Selby is Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, and Associate Dean for Enterprise in the School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. An internationally recognised illustrator, Andrew's work has appeared in newspapers, on billboards and on the covers of major corporate works for nearly two decades. He is a director of TRACEY, the web-based research portal dedicated to exploring contemporary drawing and visualisation, and is author and co-author of several books on illustration, animation and drawing.