England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain

I think I'm going to change the title to London vs Rome as this is more focused than England. In England we have so many different iconic places not just London we have the Lake District, Manchester, Newcastle these places are iconic as well and Rome section might not be as easy to compare to.

With this I can start to look more into the iconic things and people from London. I can start by using mood board's to get some inspiration and start to think and come up with a list of things I can compare to.

I'm going to keep this up to date as much as I can with the things I look at such as fashion and maps as these change frequently.

Fashion

http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/

I wanted to have a closer look at one of London's biggest days which is Fashion week where all the stars and important fashion designers get together to look at the new season's. It's such a big event each year and is what people work hard to get a good response from. 

I could focus on one part of fashion i.e shoes, part of clothing. Along with looking at the it supermodel of 2013. 

Cara Delevingne is properly the most famous model in 2013 just as described in Vogue she's the model of the year. She models for brands such as H&M, Burberry, Zara and Chanel. She has even walked in catwalk shows for Stella McCartney and Chanel, these all give her the crown to be number one british model. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara_Delevingne

Maps

The most used map in London that is used is the Tube map.

This is the original tube map for the london underground, which was designed by Harry Beck. Harry Beck was originally an underground electrical draughtsman he designed a simple but creative design i 1933 which you can see above. He based his design on a more simple version of the circuit designs he drew for his job, but simpler for people to understand for the tube. This design has carried on all over the world being changed to fit other cities undergrounds but the look and the layout still looks like the one Harry Beck first designed. 

 This is the more up to date tube map for London. 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/29/4160028/harry-beck-designer-of-iconic-london-underground-map

Sites 

When I think about my book I think that the sites are going to be the main focus as they are such a big symbol to each city. 

Here are some of the sites that make London what it is, I could try and do some of the illustrations a bit more detailed however my style is more simple and full of colour original. This is something that I need to decide for myself. 

Both the red letter box and phone box are symbol of London as well as the sites, in London they are all over the place. People get there picture taken with them if they are tourist's and you can get postcards with them on this just explains London. 

 

The Ideas

My idea for this project came from my last self authorship project where I looked at Vahram Muratyan, who created the book Paris vs New York. He was my inspiration to started drawing again even if it is using a laptop, I was able to create beautiful simply drawings that have helped me develop my style. 

As this book has become the start of my inspiration for my work and ideas I wanted to carry on the theme. In the next month I will be going to Rome which is one of the most historic, romantic and busy city's in the world with the amazing opportunity to go I wanted to do an almost journal of the things iv seen. I went on to think I could compare England to Rome in a similar way to Vahram Muratyan, when he lived in Paris and Rome. 

I want to compare the everyday things such as bread, cars, roads, road signs etc as this is what we see everyday. I also want to compare historic buildings such the coliseum and big ben. I want this to be a fun project where I can keep something that is a diary of the time in Rome.   

Rome

England

For some inspiration I have been collecting images that represent Rome and England. This is a sort of starting point for this project, as it helps me think of what is different.

For some inspiration I could look into:

• Food
• Buildings
• Inspirational people like the queen, singers, writers
• Animals like type of dogs seen
• Sign's
• Drinks 
• On the map
• Typography

When I go to Rome this will make it a bit easier to collect images of my own however images from the internet and books will help me till then. 

English food:

Roman food:

These are the kinds of things I would like in my book as they define each country.  

As I have been to London  a few times when I have been there I have taken a lot of images to keep of my time there which many of us do, I could use my own images for London as well as Rome, I could even draw myself if I am in the images.

New Idea

After giving this some more thought I think that I need to pick an area in both cities that I can focus on, simply because I have found it hard to focus on a wide range of differences. I want to focus one thing in particular such as taxi's or drinking glasses etc. 

• Road signs 
• Food 
• Other transports
• People 

I think this will make a more interesting book if its more focused and it just means that when I go to Rome I can take photos and maybe have them included in the book. 

As I think that I'm struggling to draw images i think having a mixture might be good and a good comparison. 

A major part of this is that I don't want to miss out on anything when I'm there so I think a more focused idea is good.