Study trips have always been an important part of the Illustration Animation course at Kingston. Each year we take students abroad to experience the culture, people, architecture and life of another city. Aswell as recording our time there through drawing, photograpghy and film we organise trips to studios, agencies and creatives. In the past few years we have visited San Francisco, Berlin, New York and Florence. Alongside trips abroad we take students to visit Illustrators, Designers, Collaboratives, Printworkshops Agencies, Publishers and Production Companies working in the UK.
Florence and Bologna field trip 2015
6 days of looking, drawing and making in the breath taking cities of Florence and Bologna. The students recorded every aspect from the Renaissance to the contemporary in a fantastic range of work. They visited the International Visual Publishing Fair at Bologna and were inspired by an amazing range of picture books from all around the world.
New York 2014
Kingston students visit Heart Agency in New York
Kingston students visit to Charles Hively 3×3 magazine in New York
Students visit the studios of Josh Cochran and Jim Datz at the Pencil Factory, Brooklyn
Talk by Marshall Arisman at SVA New York
Talk by the Curator at the Herb Lubalin Centre, Copper Union, New York
At Mike Perry’s studio. Brooklyn, New York
Florence 2012
End of the day Crit in the Plaza, Florence
Visiting the Bologna Book Fair
New York 2011
Gary Baseman 2011
Ian Wright studio visit
Mike Perry Studio Visit
Printed Matter shop talk
Berlin 2010
Type Workshop Berlin Technical Museum
Eboy studio visit
LONDON STUDIO VISITS
Random House Childrens Publishing
Rob Ryan studio visit
Ditto Press
James Brown
Le Gun
Print Club London
Richard Hogg studio visit
Nobrow