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Typographic London Landmarks

Graphic Design, Photography

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 31 August 2007, 9:33    Permalink    Comments (4)

Gorilla
What can you do in the Regents Park area of London? Just check out the gorilla...

Designer Oscar Wilson has created a series illustrations for Visit London, the Mayor of London's campaign to entice visitors to some of the capital's most famous areas, events and attractions. Each image is composed from multiple lines of hand-drawn copy, which includes the names of famous places, pursuits and – as with the somewhat psychedelic guitar – some of Camden's most famous music venues. The work, commissioned by agency RKCR/Y&R, is currently doing the rounds on buses and tubes throughout the city.

Guitar
Camden's famous nightlife gets a musical treatment

St Pauls
Things to do around St Pauls

Clownfish
London's Southbank

Sushi
Various foodie places

Bus
The Tower of London's offerings, displayed on a bendy bus

Agency: RKCR Y&R, London.
Art director: Neil Durber
Copywriter: Ben Hartman

See www.studiooscar.com and Oscar's blog at www.wilsonbrothers.co.uk.

4 Comments

Allthough these typographic london landmarks look very nice, it does have a resemblance that is hard to miss with Amsterdam based designer Parra (http://www.rockwellclothing.com/parra/), don't you think? With the black background, the bright colours and the typography used as an object.

I'm just guessing..
Fontanel
2007-09-02 22:54:25

Parra did the first wave of this campaign, he was good but Oscar is better.
Neil durber
2007-09-03 14:10:39

Yep Parra's the man but Oscar does have a different style. There's some terrible cases of inferior artists jacking Parra's style at the moment...
jinks
2007-09-05 17:01:04

Haha:

http://www.nalden.net/?p=538
MonoBrow
2007-09-13 13:52:46

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