推出 VC（VISUAL COMMUNICATION）Grad Show 这个栏目其实代表了我们的观点，我们认为在未来的设计中“勇敢”要比“效率”重要。这是一个焦距毕业设计阶段作品的栏目，在这个阶段新一代的设计师们把它作为学习生涯的结束，也把它作为设计生涯的开始；他们努力挣脱社会标签，产业束缚，富有实验精神，他们就像没有被现实打磨的原石。他们在尝试创新的冒险，他们不一定在做“对”的设计，也不一定有效率，但是这个阶段他们在做最“勇敢”的设计。
VC Grad Show 集中关注视觉文化及设计方向，鼓励创新，展现无惧稚嫩却富有冒险精神的设计作品，为它们提供一个向世界大声 Say Hi 的舞台。与一般栏目不同的是我们更关注个体，VC Grad Show 将深度挖掘他们的声音：学生，导师，学校，甚至是作品本身背后的感触和故事。它将是一个多角度，专辑式的栏目。
我们的栏目将持续关注全球范围内的视觉传达领域毕业作品，持续更新，同时也欢迎国内外各大设计艺术院校与我们联系，将你们的毕业设计作品在这里展示出来。
▸ 格拉斯哥艺术学院
▸ 上海视觉艺术学院
▸ 瑞士苏黎世艺术大学
▸ 美国马里兰艺术学院
▸ 中央美院设计学院
▸ 四川美术学院设计学院
▸ 广美视觉艺术设计学院
▸ 罗德岛设计学院
▸ 湖南师范大学美术学院
▸ 美国克兰布鲁克艺术学院
▸ 南京艺术学院设计学院
▸ 纽约视觉艺术学院（SVA）
▸ 日本桑泽设计研究所令和元年度（2020）毕业展
▸ 多摩美术大学毕业展
▸ 武蔵野美术大学
▸ 东京艺术大学毕业展
▸ 东京造形艺术大学毕业展
第15所学校我们选择了爱丁堡艺术学院，本篇文章将选取插画专业硕士研究生的毕业作品进行展示。
爱丁堡艺术学院Edinburgh Collegeof Art（简称ECA）是一所艺术、设计、创意及表演的艺术院校，为爱丁堡大学（University of Edinburgh）超过2000名学生提供艺术与设计、建筑、艺术史和音乐学等高等教育。爱丁堡艺术学院拥有大约200名教职研究人员，是欧洲最顶尖的艺术院校之一，享有国际级盛誉；它的宗旨是通过创意实践的学术研究、学习、教学和教育来促进批判性探讨。学院建于1760年，现用校名和校址更定于1907年。先前与赫瑞瓦特大学（Heriot Watt University）相关联，自2004年开始其学位由爱丁堡大学授予。2011年8月1日，爱丁堡艺术学院与爱丁堡大学正式合并，并保留原名爱丁堡艺术学院，隶属于人文社会科学学院。合并后新的爱丁堡艺术学院不仅包含艺术、设计、建筑和景观建筑，还包含了艺术史和音乐等专业。在欧洲同类院校中，爱丁堡艺术学院（Edinburgh Collegeof Art）是最古老、规模最大的院校之一。它的渊源可追溯到1760年，以及由爱丁堡产业家理事会保管人创办的爱丁堡图画学校。学院目前有六所专科学校，分别是图画与绘画、设计与应用艺术、雕塑、视觉交流、建筑设计和园林设计学校。学院与工业和公共部门的联系甚多，为学生提供在欧洲、美国和澳洲学习的机会。
"It has been amazing to re-imagine all of this with our students, and so much of what we have thought about will shape our future. The class of 2020 has responded with vitality, energy and enthusiasm."
Professor Juan Cruz, ECA Principal
MA & MFA Illustration
MA & MFA Illustration offers a challenging synthesis of theory and practice for an international group of masters students.
Students have individual work-spaces in which they explore contemporary issues and the living traditions of this subject. Research Proposals are written in the early weeks, describing ideas and contexts for individual projects. Students are guided in these proposals and they are also given set projects and collaborative tasks at various points of the academic year.
Postgraduate study of this subject allows for a deeper analysis of themes and texts, and enables students to build innovative and focused portfolios. Often, these students will have ambitions for the professional sphere, or they may wish to pursue doctoral studies. In each case, there is a sustained level of research, allied to technical ways of working and conceptual thinking. There is a Life Drawing studio with a series of classes, and various digital clusters throughout the campus. The academic work naturally encapsulates traditional media and information technology. Theoretical work underpins all studio practice at many levels, and there is a series of visiting lecturers from the professional and academic worlds. We welcome a range of approaches to Illustration, and the ways in which this subject relates to design and the fine arts. Illustration Masters students share studios with those in Graphic Design, with which there is a natural affinity, and we have also collaborated with other academic subjects in ECA and the wider community of the University of Edinburgh. Recently, such collaborations have included and exhibition at the Scottish Parliament, a set of finely printed postcards depicting aspects of Edinburgh for the Heart of Midlothian project. There are field trips for drawing and visual research, with additional natural history projects. Recent collaborations have included the Edinburgh Filmhouse and various University publications. Additionally, there are competitions and opportunities to exhibit at points during the year. These include Penguin, the V&A, Folio Society, 3x3 and the Macmillan Children’s Book Competition.
Title: Searching for the missing dreams
ALAIA
Research Proposal
For my master’s study, I mainly focus on the works of memories, and the concept of that is “Searching for The Missing Dreams” which would address several themes of memory, gender and things like the human
condition in relationship to our nature. Our life is very practical, also unavoidable to be daydreaming, a kind of sincerity in our life to dream of it too. I started this project two years ago. Most of my inspirations come
from my dream, my fantasy, my personal experience and the cultural environment where I was born and raised, also I’m enthusiastically fond of travelling, multiple cultures, religions and historical backgrounds of different countries are my inspiration resources as well. I use mixed materials like rock colours and some other comprehensive materials.
During this two-year study, I didn’t put much effect into projects like story books or comic books, instead, I’ve put emphasis on individual ones, I add lots of detail into every piece of illustration, try to make those elements make sense and tells its own story. Personally speaking, I don’t think pinning my hope on memory is a good idea, I tend to record those special moments by my own way before the memory loss of my old age.In other words, surprise stretches time, when I get older, looking back of these works, I hope I still could feel the old me. And I believe adding detail is a good way to record as much as I can.
Some of the feedback on my work has been that there is too much detail in each picture and that makes it difficult to find a place to focus. I understand this critique, but to me detail is crucial to the ideas of drawing and memory. Memory is composed of small details and moments. These won't necessarily make sense to another person. Memory is personal and subjective and this is what I try to communicate in my work.
As for future plans，I‘ll keep doing what I like. Painting and making art have always been my dream career. I know it's gonna be a tough journey to be myself instead of following the current commercial art market demand.I don't want to give up my dream.
Title: Bessica Raiche and her Fantastic Flying Machine
Catriona Phillips
A selection of illustrations from a picture book telling the forgotten story of early female aviator Bessica Raiche.
Bessica Raiche was an accomplished artist and qualified doctor who, in 1910, designed and built a biplane out of bamboo, silk, and piano wire in her living room.
She made her first successful flight on 16 September 1910, becoming the first American woman to fly solo. Just a few days later she bagged another record when she became the first American woman to crash an aeroplane!
Title: Dear Life-Illustration for Alice Munro's Stories
Chien-wei Yu
This project is based on twenty-two short stories by Alice Munro from her two books Dance of the Happy Shades and Dear Life. I also titled this project Dear Life, as it is mainly about lives. All of the stories feature ordinary characters that are unable to understand or cope with what is happening to them in their lives. Each piece of work on this project represents a single story.
Munro’s stories usually have a peaceful and melancholy atmosphere with vague endings and no clear plots, so instead of the plots, the mood is what I wanted to display here. Though most of her stories are quite sad, the emotions of her characters are seldom depicted. Therefore, the characters in my work are mostly expressionless or with their face blurred. Apart from the mood, the temporal setting is also a crucial part in her stories. Most of them are set in the past. That is also what I tried to capture. Therefore, I did the research on that period of time regarding different clothes styles and interiors and exterior settings.
The main mediums I used are watercolour and soft pastels. As the greyish and vague colours they create really suits Munro’s stories and can depict the subtlety very well. In addition, I quoted a few sentences or a paragraph in each story to go with each piece of work so as to show the flow of her texts, but the texts don’t necessarily correspond to the works. The quotes are obscure and ambiguous because I meant to leave space for people to imagine and interpret what the message might be.
Title: Altman Illustration Portfolio
Emily Altman
Title: Not Only 100 Days
Jen Liu
With the trend of globalization, typography and typefaces should be adapt to the new environment as well. As a tool of communication, typefaces should achieve the goal of delivering messages internationally. But now they are facing
Title: Layla's Lantern
Madison LaRose
As an illustrator I enjoy creating whimsical, fun, and imaginative scenes with an emphasis on storytelling. My pieces are developed digitally or painted with gouache and color-pencil letting my intuition guide the process. My current interest is creating visually and emotionally compelling books for children with unique characters.
Title: A selection of gouache illustration on paper
Manda Comisari
Title: Roar. In. Peace
Ruolan Jin
There are many ways to visualize music, and most of the forms are to combine complex soundtracks and express as one piece. I think there is a breakthrough in the relationship between different soundtracks and visual
Title: Pickles
Shiya Xu
Title: Select inked pages from graphic novel, The House the Inventor Built
Trena Hollands
The following portfolio contains the synopsis and 2 pencilled scenes from the graphic novel I have been developing since MFA1, semester 2, The House the Inventor Built. The narrative follows the main character Randall Honest on his search for answers regarding his mother’s mysterious family history, examining the effects of memory and exploring the reverberation of intergenerational ties. The story falls within the Gothic Horror and Surrealism genres. Though each situation the main character finds himself in is visually and supernaturally more horrific, my own personal account is still strongly tied to the
narrative.
Much of MFA yr. 1 was spent working through and exploring what the narrative was I wanted tell and the way in which it wanted to be conveyed. I spent much time
investigating through travel, painting, sculpting and drawing, the landscape of Edinburgh and Skye and my own familial connection to it. After much personal excavation and questions regarding what this journey meant within my personal story, it became clear that my family ghosts had shaped me in ways I had not expected. That my love of mystery,horror and the unknown were seeded in me at a very young age while sneaking through the off limit areas of my grandmother’s house and sifting through secretive family artifacts. My grandmother’s house sits on the forested coast of British Columbia and was built by my inventor grandfather who immigrated to Canada from Scotland, and its effect and influence on me as an individual, in retrospect, is undeniable. And so, as with most Gothic and Surrealist narratives, the physical journey ultimately becomes the uncanny reflection of the inner odyssey.
The images in my showcase consist of the inked cover page, 4 inked spreads and 1 inked chapter break page for The House the Inventor Built.Many thanks for taking the time to peruse my work. If you are interested in seeing more of my work, please see my website at the link below.
Title: Obsessive Letters
YiJie Chen
The ‘Obsessive Letters’ project features portrait illustrations as the main components, which metaphorically implies a phenomena under the obsessed consumer culture. That is the single standard of beauty which exists under the public obsession with social medias. People are getting used of the game rule of gaining more likes for their posts by exposing photos which meet the mainstream beauty, that includes for example wearing trendy, posing sexy, looking slim and owning perfect life. The fact that people are obsessed with showing themselves by photos and collecting likes to realize self-satisfaction, and people leave responds and comments by seeing other people’s photos posts even they don’t know each other. Which somehow to me is like people we are living a mode of objectifying ourselves. I attempt to convey such thought through humorous way by this project. I formalize the drawings in square shapes to let them look like photo formats on social medias, I use pure color backgrounds to highlight the figures and make them looks more like objects. The topics of these alphabetical drawings I have chosen include real objects, such as alcohol, cigarette, food, money. Some are non-meterial, which are referred to relation (desire), such as duality, love and sex; or are referred to concept, such as kawaii (means cute in Japanese), weight and heroism. I am with the idea that obsession in real world also covers a wide range of subjects.
My personal project ‘Obsessive Letters’ presents twenty-six images of alphabetical letters from A to Z. The idea of this project came up with my hobby of observing activities from people. I noticed that obsession is a common action which exist in all kind of cultures. Though the word of “obsession” itself will be recognized a bit negative, and is also easy to associate obsessed behaviour with extreme examples like drug and alcohol addiction. However, I think obsession can be extended to some minor things, material or non-material. Such as falling into an obsessed relationship, doing compulsive shopping and addicting to social media. I think it is inevitable to have experience of being obsessed with something when most people are living and surrounded by consumer culture. In a positive meaning that people can attain mental satisfaction and relieve life pressure through light level of obsession.
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策划人：陆俊毅 许一兵
VI设计：林涛
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