During my group crit with Ben I was told to look at Martin Haake's work and is lovely website. I went to look at his work for inspiration for my map project. Martin has done a few illustrations of maps, including the book 'City Atlas'. He works a lot with collage which isn't something I'd have the patience for, however I do love he's shape, colour and textures. Through using collage he is able to create different, quirky shapes, giving it that handmade personal feel. He also uses a lot of texture, some look like they're from the college and scanned in textures and some maybe digitally added. Textures seem to play a prominent role within his work. What I like, and what I've seen within other illustrated maps is that they're not exactly correct. In general, yes the information is right, but some imagery is enlarged or off balance if that makes sense? I think it just gives it a more illustrative and design feel to an otherwise boring map.
And as always I'm drawn to the food illustration...
This really stood out to me against anything else which is annoying as I was supposed to be looking at it for my map brief. Oh well! isn't it just lovely? Some bits are a little more detailed than others like the pasta maker and tomato can are more detailed than the very simple fish.
This really stood out to me against anything else which is annoying as I was supposed to be looking at it for my map brief. Oh well! isn't it just lovely? Some bits are a little more detailed than others like the pasta maker and tomato can are more detailed than the very simple fish.
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