As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 2D, this course looks at the relationship between text and images within the expanding field of illustration. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour sophomore Core 2D Seminar will examine topics in 2-dimensionally based Illustration including visual narrative (comics, graphic novels, children’s books, text-image journalism and essays) editorial illustration and illustrative posters and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in 2D Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 2D, this course looks at the relationship between text and images within the expanding field of illustration. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour sophomore Core 2D Seminar will examine topics in 2-dimensionally based Illustration including visual narrative (comics, graphic novels, children’s books, text-image journalism and essays) editorial illustration and illustrative posters and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in 2D Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 2D, this course looks at the relationship between text and images within the expanding field of illustration. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour sophomore Core 2D Seminar will examine topics in 2-dimensionally based Illustration including visual narrative (comics, graphic novels, children’s books, text-image journalism and essays) editorial illustration and illustrative posters and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in 2D Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 2D, this course looks at the relationship between text and images within the expanding field of illustration. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour sophomore Core 2D Seminar will examine topics in 2-dimensionally based Illustration including visual narrative (comics, graphic novels, children’s books, text-image journalism and essays) editorial illustration and illustrative posters and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in 2D Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.

As paired with the co-requisite Core Studio 2D, this course looks at the relationship between text and images within the expanding field of illustration. The two courses will bring together reading, writing and making in a manner that is essential to the creative work of illustrators. The three-hour sophomore Core 2D Seminar will examine topics in 2-dimensionally based Illustration including visual narrative (comics, graphic novels, children’s books, text-image journalism and essays) editorial illustration and illustrative posters and other innovative practices within a cultural and historical context. In this Seminar, all of the projects for the semester will be launched and their conceptual underpinnings examined. The making of these projects will take place in the co-requisite six-hour Core Studio section. As each project progresses, it will be critiqued and evaluated within both sections. The Seminar will include a number of cross-sectional lectures relating to innovative practice and topics in 2D Illustration. The lectures will relate to the projects currently underway. Students will be expected to respond to the lectures and discussion in text and/or image form in a Learning Portfolio. They will be expected to understand their Learning Portfolio as a tool for documenting, learning, reflecting and generating ideas, and to keep and use additional process books throughout their experience at Parsons.