'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.'

  

Editorial

My final editorial illustration in response to an article about autistic children in education. Children who have turned their back on the eduction system which fails to enable them to move seamlessly and painlessly between schools. Children who lack the support to choose their own pathway, unlike many of their peers. 

Collage

The final project in 'fact' is editorial. The article is about children/teenagers with special needs, in particular autism and the problems and restrictions they face when moving through the education system. One of the tasks in the first workshop involved creating collages in response to key words in the article. 

Three collages based on the words: barriers, aspiration and frustration.

Monoprinting

I have done a few monoprint experiments in connection with the reportage project. I intended to use the process for the final image, but I found that it was not suitable for small detailed drawings. However I still wanted to produce some monoprints of the match girls. 

Bryant and May Match Factory

This is my final illustration for the reportage project. The brief required me to produce a black and white image with text in one colour. (The text is written in full below). The building was printed using a cardboard plate, which allowed me to add all the brick texture to the surface of the cardboard. I have included a group of the Match Girls in front gates. I really wanted to include them in the image, after reading about the horrendous way they were treated I felt it was important to make them central to the message. This is also why I have used a quote from Annie Besant who lead them in a successful strike in 1888.

Bow quarter, once the site of the Bryant and May Match factory, was one of East London's first urban renewal projects. it is comprised of nineteen town houses and seven hundred and fourteen apartments with rent at approximately three hundred pounds per week. The development boasts its own supermarket, leisure centre, bar and restaurant. The Bow Quarter.

'Born in slums, driven to work while still children, undersized because underfed, oppressed because helpless, flung aside as soon as worked out, who cares if they die or go on the streets provided only that the Bryant and May shareholders get their 23 per cent.' Annie Besant, 'The Link: A journal for the servants of man', Saturday 23 June 1888.