London Illustrated Map - London Print - City Map Poster- British Art Detailed illustrated map print of London, England. Featuring Big Ben, St Paul's, The London Eye, Shakespeare's Globe, the Shard,…
Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter and Instagram @AIGAdesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Johnston100 Designer: Malou Verlomme Foundry: Monotype Release Date: June 2016 Back story: Johnston, the iconic typeface drawn by Edward Johnston in 1916, retains a un
In times of great turmoil, it's the small pleasures in life that keep me feeling grounded, hopeful and grateful. As I mentioned in my post from a few weeks ago (where we made linen napkins with perfect mitred corners and decorative border stitches), I've been feeling a springtime calling to focus on projects for the ho
The 10 UK rooms have all been recognised in the The Best of Houzz Awards 2022, which celebrate the best-rated and most popular experts and designs on the renovation and design platform.
Taken for Active Assignment Weekly. This week's assignment was Sunsets I went to London with the idea of capturing a sunset over the city I've grown to love, seen from our "Millenium Wheel" aka "The London Eye" aka "The British Airways London Eye" aka "The Merlin Entertainments London Eye".... as you might gather from the many different names, the "eye" has had a somewhat chequered history already. Anyway, that's a by-the-by. The weather didn't quite cooperate with me, so the journey in the Eye got to be more blue-hour than golden-hour. But before venturing up in the Eye, I took this shot of it, from nearby Waterloo Bridge. The tower in the centre is St Stephens Tower, often incorrectly referred to as Big Ben (which is actually the name of the bell), and the tower at the left edge is The Central Tower of Palace of Westminster aka Houses of Parliament. The horizontal line at the bottom is the reflection off the roof of a train crossing the Thames on the Hungerford Bridge. We rarely get tropical off-the-charts sunsets on this cold, wet island. So I took the image into Photoshop and tweaked the colours a bit: There's a levels layer to turn the shadows into silhouettes, a colour fill layer to emphasize the red/golden colour and a gradient to add a bit more density to the top of the sky where it had blown out for me. Finally a hue/saturation layer to fine tune colour, saturation and lightness. The Eye has become a symbol for London (we used to have an Empire, then we had a city that kept going during one of the worst bombardments, and now we have a ferris wheel... I sense a downward trend here, and suspect we'll next be famous for the Mayor's rent-a-bike scheme) and is often used in graphics to market the city. Being the 4th tallest structure in the city, it is bigger than (Big) Ben, but the title also refers to a 2008 film about a couple of crooks finding their way around London. As you may gather from this (overly) long description, I'm in a chatty mood after coming back from the city :-)
Year 2 pupils make famous London landmarks for homework project