Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Reichstag




The Reichstag is Germany’s famous parliament building. Its architectural Design by Norman Foster, who also designed “The Gherkin” in London, is fantastic conceptually and visually. The public are able to visit the building and go up into the dome, from the dome you can see down onto the parliament floor. This is so that when parliament are discussing they can look up into the dome and see who they are making decisions for - the general public. 
Inside the dome there are hundreds of mirrors, reflecting onto other people and also to the outside view of Berlin. We visited the Reichstag at night, the outside view was fantastic. I loved taking photographs and just thought it was beautifully designed, I took so many photographs in this building of the structure and of the reflections and patterns which the mirrors created. I also loved the idea of being able to see into the parliament room. I saw the similarity between Graphics and Architecture, I used to think that as long as a building worked it was fine. But this made me see that having a solid idea is just as important as it is to a Graphic Designer.

Friday, 29 April 2011

Helvetica Landscape- 3D










Building a Typographic land... Laser cut Helvetica letters from ply wood and clear perspex. Each letter gradually gets smaller as the landscape builds up. My original thoughts came from the Chaos Typeface I made - One minor difference which adds up to create a significant one. These letters shrink by just one millimeter- a tiny change but as it progresses the shape changes dramatically.

Around the outside are the off cuts from the laser cutting process, I thought these were great and didn't want to throw them away! Placing them around the edge forms a 'floor' to surround the landscape... Thinking about promoting this as a life sized typographic land for people to visit! I was also thinking about what the land could be called... the letters could spell it out? From the side it would look like an odd town - from above you would be able to see the letters and the title of the place.