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In terms of aims and scope, I liked what one of the people in the room in St. Louis said about 'class'. We almost never mention it, and it's crucial. It's part of the social 'ground' within which people make/have made work, and it also concerns our own 'constitution' as practitioners and academics. For example, I'd like to see an issue on the anonymous, ''jobbing' illustrators who were very often working class, or lower middle class at best, and who produced much of the (unattributed) imagery for 'ordinary' commercial contexts throughout the 19th and 20th centuries (in particular but also before and after, and right up top the present day). I think this is a real 'blind spot'. What about the people who were never 'named' and who made the images that accompanied advertisements in magazines, newspapers and beyond? They (arguably), shaped a large part of 'everyday' visual culture... also, how important has teaching 'visual literacy' become in the last 13 years? For instance, when images can be generated by AI etc., how important does it become to teach this subject?

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research

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Dissemination.

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sharing

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Rigour.

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criticality

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Breadth-of-audience.

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REF (research excellence framework)

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preexisting-

networks

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we have to acknowledge ai but the opposite the hand crafted too

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we have to acknowledge ai but the opposite the hand crafted too

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Our biases towards certain subject matter/s

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multiple strands of illustration practice - should the journal encompass all?

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By definition we can't see them, but I would say the impending impact of 'new' technologies.

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connection to other academic disciplines (sociology etc)

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connection to other academic disciplines (sociology etc)

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Our endeavor to identify the boundaries of illustration

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wording of authorial versus commercial (hierarchy? )

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wording of authorial versus commercial (hierarchy? )

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many people work in a multidisciplinary way - commercially too - e.g. write and illustrate

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many people work in a multidisciplinary way - commercially too - e.g. write and illustrate

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what do the public generally think - we could survey them -how do they feel about illustration?

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what do the public generally think - we could survey them -how do they feel about illustration?

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I think investigating illustration in a political/cultural context would benefit from an interdisciplinery approach, in terms of framework and methodology (incorprating qualitative methods for instance). This can help towards a definition and even increase awareness of illustration in other parts of academia.  

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I think investigating illustration in a political/cultural context would benefit from an interdisciplinery approach, in terms of framework and methodology (incorprating qualitative methods for instance). This can help towards a definition and even increase awareness of illustration in other parts of academia.  

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Aims & Scope

Illustration is a rapidly evolving field with an excitingly broad scope. Despite its cultural significance and rich history, illustration has rarely been subject to deep academic scrutiny. The Journal of Illustrationprovides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. 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. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.

The aims of the journal are as follows:

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.