Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava

A Spanish Architect whom I only really started to enjoy on my travels to Valencia. The City of Arts & Sciences Museum based in Valencia is this enormous beautifully made set of buildings with a great deal of freedom for the architectural designs. I think that is one of the things I like about Calatrava as he tries to reflect the personalities of the buildings to what goes on inside them. This can be seen with ‘L'Oceanogrˆfic’, as well as many other other buildings he has made in cities such as Tenerife, Seville and Liege.

San Francisco Jell-O

Liz Hickok make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which she uses to make molds. She casts the buildings out of Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, she adds backdrops, which she often paints, and elements such as mountains or trees, to create this fantastic Jell-O world which creates a different outlook to the city of San Francisco.

Simon Page’s Astronomy

Simon Page has some fantastic posters for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The beautiful simple style and use of colours are the main things I love about the posters - The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is a global effort initiated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and UNESCO to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day and night-time sky, and thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass

A lot of people really enjoyed Saul Bass and his title sequences for a lot of films, and I really liked his simplistic poster style that combined basic colours and text to create the essence of what the movie was about. The poster created for the movie ‘Vertigo’, shows a man swirling around symmetrical circles, which aids to the unsettled feeling Bass was most likely trying to convey. His work in films has seen him collaborate with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorcese.