Andrew Zuckerman photographer

Beautiful selection of photographs, created by Andrew Zuckerman, he has taken the birds out of their habitats, and brought in a bright white surrounding to truly focus on the birds. I didn't believe it to begin with, but there are many other animals in his portfolio of projects, and they have all been in his studio for a photo-shoot. You can see his range of birds birdbook.org also follow this to the main site to see all the other animals.

The last above bird I have drawn. I think these photos are a beautiful source for use to work from, we can see how the birds move and their different colours. Go have a look.

Also make make sure you have a look at the behind the scenes video, its really interesting to see how he does it.

Mr Darwin.

Bit of an odd post, but I think its interesting, so going to share it:

(Look HERE to see the article of the odd foods, that Charles Darwin ate)...He ate a BITTEN and many other animals, it is said that his love for exotic meats, resulted in the extinction of a particular spices of giant tortoise. On HMS Beagle he had took too many onboard and they ate them, the intention was to take them home for study, I thought.

I added this to my research because it was a bit surprising of his contribution to extinction of some creatures. 

Charles Darwin also ate an owl, that "tasted fowl!" - note, don't eat owls. 

Was going to use the influence of Darwin's ways and create an interesting recipe book. Mainly focusing on the birds, for the ghosts of gone birds project. 

HOWEVER

I have chosen to create 'Crests' that show the reasons of the birds extinction. Maybe I could create one for Darwin. 

Birds In Hats. -Katie

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http://birdsinhats.blogspot.com

Amazing blog by Alice Tams, It shows her work, with a variation of different birds in hats. She uses the birds on cards, this above one is her latest for her valentines cards. 

Beautifully rendered birds, I really like her style. Have a look.

-Katie. 

Jo for katie

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Hi Katie I saw this and thought of your recipe book idea!!!!!  and that made me laugh.

He seems to be quite a prolific illustrator I found him through ""Lost At E Minor"
he has done magazine and book illustrations.  I like his drawings for Life of Pi but he has also has also done some cool birds too.

JoLB - Group Meeting Notes

Todays meeting

Josie, Jordan, Katie, Amy and Jo LB

1. Blog

Jordan has set up this blog and can give everyone the email address and password so they can post up.

When you do post up remember to add your name to the title and also to add the appropriate labels.

Please follow this blog and then we can add your blog or website link to the page (this increases your page rating in google)

2. Research questions

Josie - reconsidering her research question from looking at illustrators involved in charity work to covering illustrators and community projects.

Jo - Look at Visual aids used in Illustration aimed at young children learning to read and what makes an effective children's book illustrator

Amy - Wants to research educational pop ups but is not sure how broad this subject would be or where to start.  Now has a list of books to consider looking at from the bibliography of Core Curriculum Books and thinks she might look at an older age group than the macmillan brief.

Jordan - has looked into developing a minizine app for his images which were going to be a series of posters, something similar to Jack knife posters  and Josie suggested he contacted them for possible work experience.

He spoke to Tom (who was passing) about maybe using learning app code as his research and Tom said he could look into the influence of technology  and what makes a good/bad use of illustration in apps.

Katie - Is creating crests which will tell the story of how each bird has gone extinct.  Metaphors would be an avenue for her research but having just bought a book about designer makers it might be worth considering the role of the illustrator in this field.

We have a couple of useful contacts re apps

USTWO  who developed Whale Tail and the mouth app - Neil McFarland and ex student Ralph Manning who is n app developer.  There is a link to him on the course website.