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Journal of Illustration 6.1 is now available

Intellect is pleased to announce that the Journal of Illustration 6.1 is now available!

Special Issue: ‘Decriminalising Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern’

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Aims & Scope

The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. This peer-reviewed journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as maker, visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts.

Issue 6.1

Editorial

Decriminalising Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern

Sheena Calvert AND Nanette HOOGSLAG

Theoretical framing

Decriminalising Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern: The sympathy of illustration

Nanette Hoogslag

The structure of pattern and ornament

On the use of vocabularies of geometric forms in ornamental pattern design

Ameet Hindocha

The nature of decoration

Texture: Faking the physical