Last week i visited Borough Market and Southbank in London to be able to get ideas to create two advertisement posters one for the market and one for Southbank. Before i looked around the market the group that i was in went and had a talk with the communications manager for the market where i was able to look at some of their previous posters and able to ask some questions about the market that could helped me to get a feel of the market that i could translate into the poster. For example i asked if the market wants to be seen as a modern market or a historic market what helped me to know if the poster should be in the historic style of in a modern contemporary design she said i bit of both. When i looked through the market i got an historic feel just by looking at their signage what had a vintage style to it. Even the smell of the food and the sounds gave it a historic feel and not like most food markets. I was able to taste the foods and had a very nice chocolate ice cream that was made of goats milk. After we had finished at Borough Market we walked along Southbank where we was able to stop of at various landmarks including the pub used in the mode 'Lockstock and two smoking barrels' and was also able to see a piece of 'Banksy's' graffiti what was cool. I looked in Tate Modern what i did not like that much as i don't really like contemporary work. I enjoyed looking at the Bankside gallery as i got some inspiration from one of the artists who did prints of Southbank using illustrator what would work really well as a poster. I really enjoyed the feeling of Southbank as it had a modern and young feel to it compared to Northbank what has an old fashioned feel to it. I finished the trip at the London Eye where there was a group of street dancers who were really bad! and i two people doing a cool illusion of him holding someone up with just using a pole. I really liked the skatepark because it was full of really cool graffiti what helped it really stand out.
Below are some photographs that i took while i was on the trip.
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