DVC 2012 - International Workshop on Drawing for Visual Communication

This workshop seeks to provide an experience of the role of drawing as both a language for visual communication, and as a means of thinking in order to solve creative problems. Examples of drawings application to visual communication may be available through a conference paper. However, examples are now available through Mario Minichiello’s websites, which can be accessed through Google.
In the workshop you will be expected to work on paper using a pen or pencil. You will ‘brain storm’ around a given text and audio sound track.
During the workshop we shall explore the relationship and interplay between the ideas in the text to those in the visually constructed narratives of the drawing. We will also consider the nature and characteristics offered to mass media communication by the non-digital handmade image.
Through creative thinking and practical methods you will further refine your ideas and be invited to discuss them at an end of workshop critique. Participants will be invited to make further refinements to their work and display the outcomes at the end of the conference. People who have taken part in this kind of workshop in industry settings have reported it to be a rewarding and useful experience.
The workshop is developed from the work undertaken with number of war veterans and also forms part of a paper which will be presented at the conference. The days work covers some of the techniques used in 'recovering' information from the memories of ex-soldiers which may have been subject to war trauma, are enacted in the workshop.