'O brave new world that has such people in it.'

These are the images I have submitted for the Folio Society Competition. Three illustrations and binding rough for Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

The quotes that accompany the illustrations are as follows:

'One egg, one embryo, one adult- normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds...’

‘...she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity.’

‘His conditioning has laid down rails along which he’s got to run...’

Publication

This is a group project, in which we have to produce a publication combining our essays. Our essay question was about how art and design can be used to teach other subjects. The idea of our book is to provide usable examples of the ideas explored in our essays. Using quotes from our essays to support the activities we are proposing. My essay looked at using stories and illustration in education. Therefore I have included minor narratives to present information for two different topics: Marie Antoinette and the french revolution and Butterflies. Here are the some of the illustrations which will use minimal colour, encouraging children to colour them in.

Brave New World

This is my development work in response to the Folio Society Competition brief to illustrate Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. I became really interested in the science aspect of the story, and the human intervention with nature. I have been looking at the manipulation of the embryo, sleep and neurons. I wanted to keep this link and theme across my three illustrations in order to have consistency. The front cover will also have this theme, looking at the idea of 'a cell in a social body.'