Building Project

This Brief was all about going out in to sheffield and finding a building that I found interesting to look at and also had a bit of history to it. I chose the Leadmill nightclub which is set on leadmill road just outside the centre of town. I chose this building because it is not only a night club, it has also been the starting point for many big bands to come out of this country as it is also a music venue. I also chose the building for its looks, as i would have to use these in my design work,and been a old mill it was full of features.

I started my design work by exploring new techniques such as aluminium etching, where you make one piece of aluminium with your own design etched on it, then ink up the metal plate and print it onto your chosen media. above are two examples of some etching prints i did of the leadmill, both about A5 in size.

In the brief i was told to create a poster with both text and image in. I then started to look

at perspective and thought about mixing both an image of leadmill i had hand drawn with a text i had hand drawn both going in to a distant vanishing point as this is how the building looks when looking at it from the end of the road.

I was really pleased with how the two elements (the Building and the text) came together as one in this piece, both going off into the same vanishing point at the end of the road. I decided to use a bright red for the text to make it stand out from the image of the building which is just the outline of it.