What do you think when you say london part IV (music 2)

 

The who and the Rolling stones

The who are an incredibly famous hard rock band, with the iconic whirlwind guitar playing of Pete Townsend. They usually used colours of the British flag and sometimes the flag itself on their album covers and promotional items.

The rollingstones

The rollingstones were just as big as the Who if not bigger, the signature lips and tongue are at the frontline of their graphics and branding campaign and everybody knows that this image on its own means the rolling stones just as everybody knows the bat symbol means batman.

What do you think when you say London Part III (music)

Music - If this is aimed at 15 - 25 year olds music would be an important part of it, London has had alot of famous musicians that people of all ages will of heard of such as the sex pistols and the clash.

Abby Road

Abby road studios is an incredibly famous recording studio in London were everything from albums to film scores are recorded.  Most famously the Beatles album Abby Road with probably one of the most famous album covers of all time.

Punk

One of the most famous music scenes of all time, made famous in London by bands such as the clash and the sex pistols.
 

Who would of though torn up union jacks, paper clips, randomly placed type cut from magazines and defacing the queens image could looks so good. ANARCHY!!!


The punk art style would look great if it was on the mural at somepoint, maybe if it actualy says london in punk style lettering?

What do you think when you say London Part II

Red Busses and phoneboxes

You dont get much more London-Esq 
than the classic red busses and phone boxes.

Palace Guards

The Buckingham palace guards with the stupid hats and silent lips are extremely well known, i imagine there isn't many people who visit London who don't want to at least try and make a guard laugh move or even smile.

English bobby's

Quite possibly the stupidest looking police force in the work, with the bell end cone head hats, but everybody knows what they look like.

What do you think when you say London. (landmarks)

The tower bridge

The London bridge is a very iconic image and would have to be on the mural at some point and i think this would make a good background image.

 

The tower of London

The infamous tower of london, this is the place you were sent to when you got on the wrong side of the person who was ruling at the time, lots of people were tortured and executed here. It was also a place for the army to store weapons and live.

The houses of parliament and big Ben

The houses of Parliament is the place were all the boring stuff happens that i dont really care about but the building looks nice and its quite iconic, it was recently seen and blown up in the film V for Vendetta and attempted to be blown up famously by Guy Forks. Big Ben is a very famous and iconic clock well known from being the main image of news at 10.

The London eye

The London eye is a giant ferris wheel that tourists can go on to get a great view of London, the wheel takes 30minutes to rotate so its not like a fair ground attraction. The London eye is a very modern looking thing and would proboly look good on the mural.

Buckingham Palace and Royal family

Im not sure why we have a royal family to be honest when the country is run by a Prime minister but the posh talking big toothed royals are quite iconic, well more stereotypical than iconic. The palace is an iconic building and everybody knows what it looks like so even though its a bit obvious it would work.   

Rome scrapped

I have decided to go for the city of London insted of Rome as i feel it would be more suitable for this project and i would get a more modern looking final piece.

What do you think when you say Rome? Part I

Here i am researching into the things that make rome, rome.

The Colosseum

 This is deifinately the most iconic building in Rome, the building were slaves and animals were forced to fight to the death to entertain the citizens of Rome. Just that they could build things like this back then is pretty amazing.






Gladiators and the Centurion soldier

The soldiers of rome and men who were forced to fight in the colessuem and  the clothes they wore are iconic themselves as much as the building. Everybody knows what a gladiator and centurion looked like so it would make a good branding image. But then again voilence related things may not be what you want on the wall of a sushi place.
(i also like the art style of this image)


Vatican City & the Pope

The vatican is an amazing looking place full of great buildings, statues and artwork (it all looks very expensive)
The vatican is obvously a huge part of rome, especailly when a new pope is being elected and thousonds of people go to see whos the new right hand.



I dont know if it would be suitable to have a pope on a wall in a sushi bar i think it could possibly offend christians and none christains alike. But he is quite iconic none the less.

Which city?

My project brief is to design a wall mural for a Yo sushi resteraunt for a city of my choosing, obviously some citys will be easier/more intresting than others. I am deciding between Rome, a city i have always had an intrest in due to the history and London my own capital city.
The problem with rome is its very historical, all old ruins, the colloseum, gladiators, statues of semi naked people and of course the vatican city. A city is what it is and allthough i could do rome in a modern style it will be all old stuff and a pope (who is almost old enough to remember gladiators).
London has a nice mix of the old and the new, such as the tower of london, the big bridge thing, the palace and newer things such as the millenium bridge, london eye and the biggest waste of money ever the crappy gient tent, aka the dome. I would like to do two, one for each city but i doubt i would have time.