Illustration is the next topic in our Transparency Series! Journalistic outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Nautilus use illustration as an important part of their content. Word and image work together to produce beautifully told stories, drawing readers in. Metaphor, humor and empathy are powerful visual tools to engage and delight. As usual, our events take place in two parts.
Friday, December 2nd from 5-6pm Ellen Weinstein will lead a panel discussion that is open to the public with Andrew Horton, Alissa Levin, and Victor Juhasz on illustration as it relates to journalism. Andrew Horton is the Creative Director of the Village Voice. He has previously led the art departments of Business Week, Billboard and Advertising Age, and he has worked for magazines such as New York, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. Alissa Levin is founder and principal of Point Five, a New York City-based design studio specializing in work with an educational or cultural focus. Victor Juhasz has illustrated for many major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, advertising agencies, both national and international. In August, 2011, he embedded with the 1-52nd Arctic Thunder Dustoff (helicopter medical evacuation) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, his artwork and writing appearing in GQ online.
Saturday, December 3rd from 10am-5pm Ellen Weinstein will lead our hands-on workshop, an event with limited seats. Weinstein, a world-renowned illustrator and frequent contributor to many publications, will introduce basic visual thinking skills that will lead you through visualizing a story from text. How do you employ visual metaphors without being cliché? How do you create visual empathy with a subject? When is humor appropriate? During the day, we will create, discuss and think about word and image, not as separate entities but as halves of a whole.
Weinstein is a graduate of Pratt Institute and is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has received awards from American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Society of Publication Designers, Society of News Designers and the Art Directors Club. Weinstein exhibits her work in local New York galleries as well as galleries in the US and Italy. You can see her work at www.ellenweinstein.com.
Registration for this event is now open at brwn.co/tx . Make sure you receive an email confirmation!
We hope you enjoy this very special event.