Professional Practice

  Professional Practice  After my previous research I have decided that I am most interested in book cover designs and I think there are a variety of topics I can chose from. I like the idea of comparing different children's book covers.  Researching children's illustration will allow be to be invested in what I writing about mainly because  thats what I aspire to be able to illustrate in the future. I could compare how children's book covers have developed from when fables began(15th century), to Grimm fairytales (19th century) to the present day children's illustration. I also have another idea where I could also analyse how different art movements might have inspired book illustrators in general eg Bauhaus, art deco etc. Another idea I have is how the colour palette artists use in children's book illustration makes the audience more inclined to purchase. 

I am unsure whether to research into Commercial publishing or Book Covers, both are interesting to me and have positives factors to both.   Commercial Publishing I am very interested in this subject and have aspired to become an illustrator whom specialises in this area. Heres some research I found;  "Commercial publishing includes; advertising, education, financial institutions, publishing houses, magazines or newspaper." "There were an estimated 196,000 UK publishing jobs in 2019 according to the data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS).  The DCMS estimates that in 2019 the value of publishing goods exported from the UK was £2.84bn and the value of exports was £1.83bn." " The UK Publishing contributes to the rest of the creative industries" "A report for the Publishers Asssociation by Frontier Economics estimates that productions that originated as books generated 44% more in UK film box office revenue (53% more global...