Making Books: Character Design and Narrative in Illustration (2015-2019)

Making Books: Character Design and Narrative in Illustration is a collection of critical and creative work investigating frameworks for practice-based research and their applications to children’s picturebook illustration, focusing in particular on the processes involved as they apply to the creation of character and narrative, using a design-based approach to constructing books.

The outputs within this Collection comprise a book chapter, published article, and an exhibition, at which the creative practice creations of the researcher were displayed. Also contained within this Collection is contextualising materials, including a 300 word statement, research timeline, documentation of methods and processes concerning the creation of the artist's book(s), and additional text describing conference papers and public talks.