The feedback I left on your classmate Polly's blog, who has also chosen the fairground city, will relate just as usefully to you; you can read it here:
The short version is that there's a risk with this city that you're envisioning it as a city with rides in it, whereas I think the truly imaginative approach is to design this half of the city as if the city *is* an amusement park and all the great and 'out there' design work this so implies. You might want to take a look at 'postmodern architecture' and 'postmodern interiors' as related searches because you'll see that 'postmodernism' gives you a lot of playful, improbable examples of architecture and structures, wherein the very fabric of the buildings themselves are 'fun' and playful: so...
The danger with this city is that you depict a generic grey city and beside it lots of primary coloured fairground rides; remember, this is a city - so it's more this...
OGR 06/10/2016
ReplyDeleteHi Jen,
The feedback I left on your classmate Polly's blog, who has also chosen the fairground city, will relate just as usefully to you; you can read it here:
http://pollygwinnettcaa.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/online-greenlight-review-051016.html
The short version is that there's a risk with this city that you're envisioning it as a city with rides in it, whereas I think the truly imaginative approach is to design this half of the city as if the city *is* an amusement park and all the great and 'out there' design work this so implies. You might want to take a look at 'postmodern architecture' and 'postmodern interiors' as related searches because you'll see that 'postmodernism' gives you a lot of playful, improbable examples of architecture and structures, wherein the very fabric of the buildings themselves are 'fun' and playful: so...
https://d.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/inline-large/post-inline/inline-030-020medusa-01-1500px.jpg
http://www.selmancelik.info/wp-content/uploads/figure4.jpg
http://www.thecultureconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Memphis-Design.jpg
The danger with this city is that you depict a generic grey city and beside it lots of primary coloured fairground rides; remember, this is a city - so it's more this...
https://cdna2.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/132/118/large/david-levy-170a-city-120914-widetop-v1-dl-wip-05-copy.jpg?1443930316
and less this;
http://previews.123rf.com/images/creativenature/creativenature1403/creativenature140300045/27028483-Colorful-Fun-Fair-in-the-City-Centre-of-Groningen-Netherlands-Stock-Photo.jpg
Hi Jen just completed Dave Green's OGR - as he's chosen Sophronia too - and some of his feedback will no doubt be of interest to you too :)
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