Friday 26 February 2010

victorian architecture



always been really amazed by the victorian style architecture around the area, so i took a photo trip to record some sites. Here as a couple of interesting buildings. Espescially love the signage...

Tutorial action packed with ideas

Had a tutorial today and came out with lots of cool ideas. basically the direction i want to travel in is to bring some nature into a busy, grey place once used as a factory town. blah blah blah you've heard it all before.....
a magic story telling tree complete with layer upon layer of sculpted wood. the cool thing behind it is i can integrate many stories that relate to the area into it. I aim to use perspective to show scale, giving the effect of being a small child lost in the woods and finding a giant oak....get it?

history of the area

this is a great article about the history of the area...thanks hackney council for this one!!! i especially like the connection of charles dickens... apparently oliver twist was from shoreditch.. thats where the tight fitting jeans look comes from


www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-shoreditch-history.pdf

grrrr


one of the many things that you probably won't find in the area...

architecture


a sample of architecture around shoreditch


Quick drawings of people in surrounding area


ABCDE typeface drawn letters derived from architectural surroundings of East London