MA Illustration
Meet your Librarian – Kirsten Pairpoint
About Kirsten
Kirsten Pairpoint is the Subject Librarian responsible for undergraduate courses in Design for Publishing, Graphic Communication, Graphic Design, User Experience Design and Illustration. She is also the Subject Librarian for postgraduate courses in Advertising, Illustration, User Experience Design, and Service Design, as well as Research Degrees. She studied Graphic Information Design at the University of Westminster and worked at the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she curated the Annual Illustration Awards.
How can I help you?
You can book one to one tutorials with me to help you with your research or referencing, please contact me via email or you can drop into the library office (DS103) to have a chat!
I work Wednesday mornings and all day Thursday and Friday.
As a team, we also provide research and referencing drop-in sessions to assist you in the run-up to written work hand-ins, keep an eye on Instagram (@norwichuni_library) for times and dates.
Print Books
Books on Illustration
With the exception of short loan books, main collection books can be borrowed for three weeks.
Illustration books in the Library’s main collection are held at Dewey Decimal number 755, and include titles on the History of Illustration, Illustration Techniques, Children’s Book Illustration, Individual Illustrators’ Lives and Work etc.
If you are interested in Comics and Graphic Novels, you’ll find them under Dewey Decimal number 754.65.
Remember to investigate other areas of the library that may be relevant to your work: Printmaking at 716; Typography at 752; Editorial Design at 754; Posters at 756.22
Find out how to search for library catalogue books on Discovery.
Online Resources
As well as printed materials, the Library also has a wide selection of online resources to help you with your research.
Useful resources for MA Illustration
BFI Player
Stream new, cult and classic films – instant access to exceptional movies hand-picked for you by people with a passion for cinema.Â
To create a new account follow the link and sign up using your university email address.
Step by step guidance to create an account can be found here (this link opens in a new window)
*** New BFI Player app*** information is available here.
As members of the BFI subscription service we also have access to free scans of chapters and articles, search the database here for a full list of what they have in their collections.
Box of Broadcasts
BoB is an up to date television streaming service available to all students and staff. BoB allows you to view recently aired programmes from over 65 channels and there is a searchable archive of 3.3 million broadcasts. You can also record programmes aired in the last 30 days which will be stored on the service permanently, meaning you can watch them again and again. Best of all, you do not need a TV license to use this service.
This service is not available outside the UK. You will need to register with BoB when you first try and access it.
Video resources to support accessing and using BoB are available on the VLE.
Further resources on how to use BoB Â (opens in a new window)
British Cartoon Archive
Access more than 200,000 cartoons dating back to 1904, including the entire Giles Collection.
Statista
Statista offers over 1.5 million statistics from over 18,000 sources, available immediately in easy to use graphs you can use in your own reports and presentations. Statista includes market data, industry reports, forecasts, opinion polls and infographics.
A video guide to using Statista is available on the VLE.
Further usage guides are available on Statista’s site (opens in a new window).
Subculture Archives
An educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. From the world’s leading collection of youth culture history.
Publications
Publications, also known as magazines, journals or periodicals, are regularly published with up to date articles, images, and editorials. These can be available in print and online.
Useful publications for MA Illustration
Resource Type
JournalDrawing: research, theory, practice
Promotes and disseminates drawing research with a focus on contemporary practice and its theoretical context.
Resource Type
MagazineIllustration
A general magazine about illustration – the artists, the collectors, the collections, the exhibitions, the history, the philosophy and the key events relating to this subject. Covers the work of great artists from the past as well as new graduates currently coming out of college.
Resource Type
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Research on all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the 20th and 21st centuries.
Resource Type
JournalJournal of Illustration
The journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as visualizer, thinker, and facilitator.
Resource Type
MagazinePressing Matters
A magazine looking at the people, process and passion behind printmaking.