And here’s a slightly different version…
Here is the beginning of my Camden Map… I still have a lot more illustrations to place around it, but this is the beginning…
Im wondering wether to carry on doing it like this, or if I should draw out the map first and place the objects on after, although Im worried if I do it that way they may not fit :/
Do you think the bold, flat colours for the map (roads, canal etc) are working, or should they be thinner/different colours?
Also, are the illustrations working being at different angles like this?
Thanks! :)
Jess
Koko and Hobgoblin in Camden, again, trying out different stroke/fill/background colour variations..
Here are some illustrations I’ve been doing to include in my map of Camden. I scanned them in, and am using illustrator to play around with different colour variations.
I’m still not sure wether to have the map with a set colour scheme, or have each individual establishment with their own colour schemes..
Found Alphabet - Tube Map
I noticed a few letters on the tube map which stood out to me, so had a go at creating an alphabet out of the different shaped formed by the tube lines… some worked better than others, would perhaps be better if they were all more similar in size..
Found Alphabets
Over easter, I went around Brick Lane and South Kensigton documenting some of the different lettering they use in the 2 areas.
There is quite a clear difference between the two areas..
As I walked around Brick Lane/Old Street, I found myself mostly drawn to the hand written, colourful, bold lettering and graffitti that surrounds it. Brick Lane is extremely diverse culturally, and has recently become a popular area for young artists and designers. This has attracted a variety of small independent businesses which all have their own, quite specific identities, often shown through their logos.
The area is also home to the Bangladeshi communities, and is famous for it’s many curry houses which I have also documented on my journey.
I then went to South Kensington to see the British Design exhibition at the V&A, and took the opportunity while I was there to do another typographic journey around there.
Whereas in Brick Lane a lot of the lettering was very bold, colourful, hand painted, neon etc, around South Kensington, the lettering was a lot more traditional and uniform, mostly black/white/gold, a lot of engravings in stone and more elegant.
This is another one I developed doing simple rectangles squared paper, then abstracting some lines around some of the edges of the letters… At the bottom i’m not sure how legible it is, but it should say ‘sans’, I was going to do a serif and slab too for comparisons.
Circular Alphabet
Today I’ve been working on a couple of Geometric alphabets, this is the circular one, some letters suck as the ‘M’ and the ‘N’ I’m quite happy with, others I quite like such as the ‘F’ but I’m not sure it matches all the other letters… also the ‘D’ I had problems getting around trying to make the letter recognisable without using a straight line on the left hand side..
Triangle Type
In between panicking about my academic contexts book, blog, colour, sketchbook, visual grammar and moving house stuff I had a quick go at making the typeface Tony had asked us to have a go at, using a simple shape with a line to create the different characters of the alphabet.
Unfortunately for now I only managed to do the upper case, and its very basic, I had never used illustrator before (it’s actually very easy for things like that, and much quicker than doing it by hand!) but it took me a while to get my head round the program… although it was worth it, hopefully next week Ill be able to develop it some more, and do the lower case and numbers too.. :)
Colograph and Dry Printing
Having thought of the possibility of using collage to create the images for my publication, I heard that there was an induction to Colograph printing on Tuesday.
I went with Susanna, Nick and Marta, which was a lot of fun… it’s a great technique but it may be a bit risky to use it for this project since we really don’t have a lot of time left to publish our book, and Colograph is quite erratic, so it would take a long time to get to know it well enough to create something good enough for the book… unfortunately :(
Before I decided to settle on the skyline Idea for my publication, I had been looking into windows, and patterns formed by repetitive rows of endless windows around the city… Although the windows change from area to area and building to building, there are places where there seem to be windows piled up on top of one another of all kinds, again forming layer upon layer of structures in the city.
I had done this sketch for that idea, but wonder if I could perhaps do some sort of collage, or paste some images like this on to the images I had painted for the skyline, to give the impression of layers, randomness and pattern which portray the eclectic array of structures that make up the city of London.
One of my classmates (thanks Bethany!) recommended I took a look at the work of Paul Catherall, as I had mentioned I would like to do some screenprinting or general hand made prints for my publication.
I loved his work, and although I don’t have enough time at all on this project to do a set of screen prints, I thought I would give something similar a go using acrylic paints.
His website is here:
http://www.paulcatherall.com/
Having been on Hornsey Lane Bridge, I was reminded of one of my initial ideas for this project when I went on the first research day trip, one of the things that struck me the most was the skyline, and the eclectic mix of buildings that were all sitting on top of one another in a completely random and messy manner, but somehow they manage to form a kind of harmony and create the cityscape that is so recognizable as London.
I started to do some simple abstractions of some of the most well known buildings…
I thought it could be interesting to have a chapter on each one, and have a cut out (lasercut) of each structure on individual pages, so that when the book is either opened or closed (depending if I use concertina fold, or another type of binding), they sit on top of each other to form the skyline through different layers.
More lights…
I went to Hornsey Lane Bridge, as I used to live near there and remember there being some brilliant views of the london skyline, and hoped to get some good night time shots to see what I could do with them…
Lights…
Although Im not doing this as a project any more, I thought Id upload some of the pictures I took… unfortunaely Tumblr only lets me put up a few at a time, so Ill upload some more in a separate post!
