Influencing Illustrators…

Right now, Paul Pope is redesigning his website but DKNY Jean's current promotional campaign features this immensely talented comic artist.

Moving right along… Historic Walking Tour Map of Bridgeport's South End

I'm getting ready to finish up our Map Project this week… All of my issues with typesetting the "directions" and fitting all of the location pictures are completed… I've also decided to do away with the magazine spread on the reverse side of the my Illustrator Map and replace it with one big illustration featuring some characters. Here's my initial sketch—

"Gathering of the Vibes" Sketch #1

Last Monday was the final deadline for our "Historic Walking Tour of the South End". Here's my second sketch for illustration of the concert crowd at the Vibes show which take place at Seaside Park every Summer…

"Gathering of the Vibes" Sketch #2

Project: Walking Tour of Bridgeport's South End

Questions for Eric Lehman:

1. Was the Warner Brothers Factory built by the same Warner Brothers as in Warner Brother's Records?
2. What the heck is a Locomobile?
3. What year did the Remington Factory close it's doors? And why doesn't the city of Bridgeport knock this, and other decaying buildings, down?
4. Is the public still allowed access to Pleasure Beach? What is there?
5. Are the statues of P.T. Barnum and Elias Howe ever going to get a makeover?
6. Has the Blackrock Lighthouse been renovated? Or is it slowly rotting away?
7. Why was Barnum's daughter's house saved and transformed into Waldermere Hall?
8. What happened to Barnum's  Marina Mansion?

Statue of Elias Howe

Statue of P.T. Barnum

 Warner Brothers Factory circa 1876

Former Locomobile Factory site

Former Remington Factory Building

Pleasure Beach?

Fones School of Dental Hygiene

Harvey Hubbel Gymnasium

Perry Arch circa 1918

Seaside Park

Black Rock Lighthouse circa 1823

Waldermere Hall

Original Gate of Marina Mansion

Cortright Hall

The Seaside Institue circa 1886

Lafayette and Atlantic

Some web sites featuring maps by artists who inspire me…

• Twenty-one New York artists create their own walking tour maps of the Big Apple with Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York 

• Inivia has an exhibition called Who's Map is it?

• Matthew Cusick makes Art out of Maps

 

• Maps of Middle Earth by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien and Son