London Visits: 24.01.2014 / 11.02.2014

24th Jan:

I visited some exhibitions at the the British Library, the Wellcome Collection and the V&A. The exhibition at the British Library was particularly interesting. Picture This: Children's Illustrated Classics, This featured illustrated editions over the years and also presented how illustration can be applied into an exhibition interestingly.

Books were displayed in cabinets next to single illustrations and also printed on a large scale on the surrounding walls. This gave me food for thought when thinking about the final degree show regarding how small illustrations can be presented to an audience out of its original context.

Here are a few photos from the Wellcome Collection that I found particularly interesting. These pieces were textual and 

11th Feb:

This tuesday I visited the Museum of Childhood, the Nobrow book shop and the Lighthouse studios.