the illustrator and the city: how can illustration react to and interact with the urban environment?...
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The illustrator working within the urban landscape must be sensitive to the nature of the city, as the city by its very nature can be cause for overstimulation to the point wherein much information is discarded and disregarded. Additional visual noise is not needed for its own sake, so should play a role in organically or beneficially shaping the environment if feeding back into it. Following this, sometimes illustration's most effective form in response to the urban environment may be an active one within it, and other times it may be as commentary or documentary reflection, rather than as more a directly active intervention. Through practice-led research, and via exploration of practices and theories considering the city's role at various points as one of medium, message, canvas, and inspiration, the question of how illustration can react to and interact with the city is explored in the urban space of London.