Centre For Research Development - University of Brighton
Research News - Edition 07 2003

Staff News

Lawrence Zeegen has written the following articles which have been published in recent months:

I Love Illustration - Computer Arts Issue 86 August 03
This article is a six-page, in-depth look at the best of the current practitioners in contemporary illustration. The feature profiles each of the image-makers and their work through interviews in their studios, showcasing recent commercial projects and independent work for exhibition. Amongst those included in the feature are Ian Wright and Jasper Goodall, who both teach on the BA (Hons) Illustration course. Wright recently completed a site-specific project for Issey Miyake in New York and Goodall exhibited in a group exhibition in Tokyo.

Illustration Now! – A Recent History – Computer Arts Projects Magazine Issue 49 September 03
This article tracks the recent history of digital illustration from it's beginnings in the 1970s with the introduction of digital technology through to the birth of digital re-touching and collage at The Royal College of Art with the introduction of the Canon CLC Lab in the late 1980s. Featuring interviews with many of the 'key' image-makers, agents and educators at the time, the feature also goes onto look at current innovation in digital illustration and to fast-forward and predict technological advances that are about to happen. Also, featured is a forty-part timeline, by Zeegen, tracking the development of digital technology effecting illustration and illustrators.