Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Illustration at University of Portsmouth

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
University website: www.port.ac.uk

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Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.
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Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.
Ambrose Bierce’s definition of Mad in: An Eye for An I: Living Philosophy, ReadHowYouWant.com, 4 March 2008, p. 104.
Illustration
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non-textual medium such as magnetic tape audio.
Tro in: e-Study Guide for: Introductory Chemistry: by Tro, ISBN 9780136003823 , Cram101 Textbook Reviews, 01-Jan-2012, p. 133.
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You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
Richard MacDonald in: Art 4392- Illustration, University of Texas Arlington.
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