SB2 | Creative Presence

Today we had the briefing for SB2 and although it is extremely daunting at this point in time, it could very well be beneficial to me not only in terms of my practice and knowledge of industry, but in pushing me out of my comfort zone by approaching a person off my own back.

I thought I would consider what areas of the creative industries interest me and what is relevant to the things I am doing now.

Publishing

Publishers, small press houses, basically people that deal with putting out comics, sequential illustration and visual art, paper-based artifacts.

• Breakdown Press, London. Art Director: Joe Kessler (Safari Festival, alt-comics and illust)
• Landfill Editions, Nottingham
• Nobrow Press, London
• Good Press, Glasgow
• Kus! Comics, Latvia
• Misma Editions, France
• Drawn & Quarterly, Canada

• Koyama Press, Canada
• Tan & Loose Press, Chicago U.S. (Clay Hickson) > The Smudge Paper

• Fantagraphics, U.S

Curation?

Galleries? Art directors? Exhibition organisers?

Editorial/Informative/Research-based

Newspapers and magazines?
Mould Map - publication series, Leon Sadler and Hugh Frost
Wrap Magazine - contemporary illustration
The Jaunt - travel and art
Creative Review

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The Task

• Identify a person you are going  to interview. Types of people: illustrator, practitioner, agency, publisher, creative director, art editors, curator. If from an organisation, who would I need to speak to from there?
• Produce a 500w report based on the interview; their journey and current position in industry. Why this person? Why is their career/field relevant to me?
• The report should be: relevant to you and your practice, supported by contextual research, illustrated (photos, images, screengrabs), structured. All within an ISSU document.
• Structure: Intro, rationale, main body, conclusion

How can you interview a person?

• Face to face
• Phone
• Skype
• Email
• Letter/handwritten