Tânia A. Cardoso in Message: Graphic Communication Design Research 5 (2022)
This article on illustration practice as research investigates how cities have been a vital component for visual storytelling and reportage in illustration to disclose urban space and its everyday practices. It explores the potential of illustration for an intensive engagement between the illustrator-researcher and the city revealing it as a complex entity to its audience. By combining theory and praxis I intend to demonstrate how the phenomenon of “illustrated cities” can be found at the intersection between urban experience, place and illustration – a site-specific practice in Amsterdam.