An increasingly important quality of illustrative visual languages lies in their emotionality. Because in addition to the content that the handmade images show, they also tell of their creation process. Our emotions and attitudes are visible. Our virtuosity, strength, anger, dedication, but perhaps also our vulnerability or our failure can be read in our pictures. We are approachable and human in our authorship. This distinguishes our illustrations from the pictures that artificial intelligence delivers.
This course is about authorship. We want to ask ourselves what our visual language stands for. We look for a position and create illustrations that pursue a concrete concern. This can be done in a serious, dramatic, sad, sober or very silly way. It is crucial that we develop an illustrative visual language in the project work that is suitable for communicating our concern. And, of course, we also need to be clear about what our concern is. We are certainly not lacking in important topics today, but perhaps in surprisingly authentic human positions on the issues.

Any questions concerning this class? You’ll reach me by Zoom March 11. (10 to 11 am)
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