In approaching this project, and more specifically this exercise I realised something. Okay I realised a couple of things; one that I’m not massively aware of what is new or now in visual/contemporary culture, two that I needed to figure out how to find out what is new or now. Cue frantic online searching of various illustration, contemporary visual culture magazines. I came across one magazine, Wrap, that I liked the look of which professed to be interested in contemporary illustration. I also began looking into the websites and magazines listed in my course guidance.
Front cover illustration by Ping Zhu. For Wrap magazine, issue 11 ‘Balance’. Photo credit: Christy Archer.