What is Illustration? (Essential Design Handbooks)

What is Illustration? explains the underlying principles of illustration, as a means of visual expression, as a highly competitive industry, and as a contemporary, innovative practice. It explores the discipline's history, and its relationship with art, design, and photography; it investigates how illustrated images are read and understood, and how personal visual languages are created by today's illustrators and image-makers. This book also investigates the many different contexts for illustration, and the range of career opportunities that are open to illustrators; from editorial illustration in newspapers and magazines, to book publishing, illustration for advertising, design, music, fashion, websites, and the increasing demand from stock libraries.