DESIGN BRIEF
Visit to London - Skyline Project
"The aim of this project is to visually document your route and your experiences during this excursion. Your starting point will be at the edge of the city in London. You are required to record the visual information around you and thoughout your journey using mark making, photography, typosgraphy, sound, illustration, montage and collection of ephemera etc which support your sketchbook work. You will also be expected to research before and after your visit."
Idea, concept and development
My main interest for this project was to document everywhere that I went using my camera. I wanted to extract as much information as I could from such a vast city like London. Once I had gathered all the information I decided to look at current skylines and whether the information I have could generate some ideas. I focused on the building's shapes, sizes and colours for visual inspiration however thist led to very obvious outcomes.
I turned my attention to a more abstract approach, focusing more on volumes of areas in London as some were busier, or louder than others and vice versa. The images above shows the route I took during my travels around London, highlighting places using sound. The way I've visualised this sound was to use the same reading techniques as an oscilloscope. The larger the spike, the louder that particular place was.
The last image indicates this using a key that I created to help people differentiate between loud and quiet areas of London. This abstract approach is my interpretation of the brief, creating a skyline of London using information gathered when visiting the capital city.
Hope you like my work! This was the first brief set when starting
the Arts University of Bournemouth.
the Arts University of Bournemouth.
