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Illustration at University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.southwales.ac.uk
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Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.
Illustration
I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
Quentin Blake, Quentin Blake: interview, Time Out editors, 18 December 2006.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T. D. Jakes in: Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes, NPR Organization, 5 April 2012.
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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Random House, 22 September 2009, p. 412.
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