The journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts. 

 

The aims of the journal are as follows:

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♦ To work towards a definition of illustration, and its place in culture and history.

♦ To look at the subject as a form of authorial practice as well as commercially driven profession.

♦ To locate and describe histories of the subject within a wide variety of cultural contexts.

♦ To develop a critical discourse and taxonomies of the subject.

♦ To review current practice through case studies and interviews.

♦ To encourage new critical writing on the subject of illustration, the relationship between word and image, image and concept and visual narratives.

♦ To analyse the cognitive and developmental processes illustrated material stimulates in children and adults.

♦ To explore the issues surrounding illustration as a visual text when it a translation or adaptation from other texts.

♦ To look at traditional and emerging formats for illustrators and the ways in which these technologies affect visual communication, for example the relationship between illustration and animation.

♦ To investigate the evolving potential of illustration within new media landscapes.

♦ To explore theoretically and discursively the conjunction of illustration and the ‘literary’.

♦ To investigate the potential for metaphor, iconology and poetics in illustration.

♦ To provide a platform for visual thinking.

Abstracting and Indexing
Design and Applied Art Index (DAAI); European Reference Index for Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)

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All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.