Basics Illustration 03: Text and Image

Mark 'Wigan' Williams is one of Britain's foremost graphic artists, an influential academic and a writer. Since 1998, Wigan has lectured in Graphic Design and Illustration throughout the UK, including courses in Hull, Derby, Coventry and Central Saint Martins College, London. Between 2002 and 2006 he was course director on the BA Illustration and MA Illustration courses at Camberwell College of Arts, London. From 2007, he has become the Programme Leader of the BA Graphic Design course at the University of Salford's School of Art and Design. Wigan is also co-founder and director of House of Ear - Experimental Art Research, a gallery/studio and project space in Manchester, UK. He continues to paint, self-publish books of his drawings, print limited-edition silkscreen prints and T-shirts, and exhibit in galleries and venues worldwide.

This makes an essential read for any would be illustrator/designer or visual communication student and should feature on every art college library bookshelf.

• Introduction. How to get the most out of this book. The Elucidators: Defining illustration; A rigorous discipline; A personal visual language; Mapping connections and directions; A subjective history of illustration; Type play projects. Interpretation: Amplifying the text; Author/illustrator; The visual journalist; Book art; Narrative illustration projects. Text, Images, Ideas and Messages: Editorial illustration; Conceptual image-making; Persuasive image-making; To instruct and inform; Text as image and image as text; Letterform projects. A Myriad of Platforms: Poster design; Magazines; Installation and interventions; Book jackets; Text in motion; Visual impact projects. Illustrative Text: Magical letterforms; Handcrafted type; Sampling and mixing; Typographic poetry; Handmade type projects. Graphic Art Zeitgeist: Sound and vision; Image, music and text; Club flyers; Zeitgeist projects. Conclusion. Glossary. Illustration dialogues. Reference material. Influential posters and record sleeves. Contacts. Acknowledgements and picture credits.