Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
From Content to Idea: The Research Process
A course by Fernando Cobelo , Illustrator
About the video: From Content to Idea: The Research Process
Overview
“As a project of the course you will illustrate a newspaper article, putting the visual metaphor into a very practical work. Let's see together why the newspaper article is a perfect example to practice and why the image is a perfect tool to tell even complex concepts.”
In this video lesson Fernando Cobelo addresses the topic: From Content to Idea: The Research Process, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts. Learn to convey abstract concepts through images by experimenting with analog and digital techniques, collage, and textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“From Content to Idea: The Research Process In this lesson, we'll start working on our final project. In the previous exercise, we used a visual metaphor to illustrate one of our memories. Now, we’ll take a slightly more professional approach: we'll illustrate a newspaper article. Visual metaphors fit very well when it comes to illustrating a newspaper article precisely because they highlight the empathy we discussed earlier. For our project, I picked an article from “The New York Times” that talks about how some people's health has improved thanks to their more positive mindset. It also inc...”
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Course summary for: Visual Metaphors: Illustrate Abstract Concepts
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Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creativity, Drawing, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Fernando Cobelo
A course by Fernando Cobelo
Fernando Cobelo is an illustrator from Venezuela who currently lives and works in Italy. He put his childhood passion for drawing aside to study architecture in college and didn't pick up a pencil again until many years later when he received his first commission from a US shoe manufacturer, rekindling his passion and transforming it into a full-time job.
Throughout his career, he's worked on a range of projects for clients such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, il Corriere della Sera, Penguin Random House, Zanichelli, multinational corporations including Google, Disney, Samsung, Montblanc, Lonely Planet, and WeTransfer, as well as prominent institutions like the UN and UNICEF. He has also taught and run workshops at schools and universities in Italy, Mexico, India, Russia, China, and a host of other countries.
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