Background The challenge for Pantone is to re-imagine your home town through a new colour scheme, thinking about everything that its identity can include, physical and digital: logo, transport, way-finding etc. Within my lifetime, I have lived in various places around the UK. I lived in North London for 10 years, moved to Bristol for 7 years, then moved to Farnham for 1 year and now I have been living in Epsom for 3 years. As I lived in Bristol for my main teenage years, I found that it has a lot to offer towards this brief. Bristol, the birth place of Wallace and Gromit and where the famous anonymous street artist Banksy is from, is a very artistic City, especially within the city centre where you will be surrounded by a lot of street art and history everywhere you go. Art Around Bristol Banksy in Bristol
These specific Banksy graffiti pieces I have selected to add into my research because these pieces I have seen with my own eyes in Bristol on various occasions. The colours are kept very two tonal, focusing on the black and whites. The colour aspects within the art pieces focus on import ants assets that Banksy wants the viewer to see instantly. For example, ‘The Wild, Wild West’ piece where the teddy is throwing the spray can which is light up like a bomb, which is being thrown at the police. This is a rebellious art piece, which the bright orange on the can makes you focus on it. Other Art Around Bristol
As you can see, Bristol is full of art and colour. I love how Bristol’s character is uplifted due to the rise and creativity in street are. As the aim of the brief is to re-imagine your home town through a new colour themes, I have decided to integrate Bristols artistic, colourful and full of life street art colours into Epsom, the town I am currently living in. Epsom is a town in Surrey which lies within the Copthorn hundred used for periodic, strategic meetings of the wealthy and powerful in Anglo Saxon England. In addition to this Epsom has a racecourse which holds The Derby every year since late 17 hundreds. Images of Epsom
As you can see, Epsom doesn’t have half as much colour as Bristol has. Epsom is more older/victorian style with bland colours. Nothing really catching anyones attention compared to Bristol. So I have decided to merged the two places I have lived in to create something wonderful for the people and committees in Epsom. IDEA Since 2013, around Bristol their have seen statues of Gromits all personalised in a certain style to raise money for charity. Gromit Unleashed began as a public arts trail in Bristol, a collaboration between Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity, and Aardman Animations, to raise funds to support sick children and babies at the Hospital. They set out to capture the imagination of the public by adorning Bristol’s streets with 80 giant Gromit sculptures for 10 weeks, before taking the sculptures to auction to help raise funds for life-saving equipment, patient comforts, family facilities and child-friendly artwork at Bristol Children’s Hospital as part of the Hospital expansion.
Some of the Gromits
From this scheme which ran through Bristol, I have decided to bring it to Epsom to create something exciting and colourful. Instead of using Gromit, I have decided to use horses to represent horse racing and The Derby which is a traditional and historical event that is ran in Epsom every year. In addition to this, we can bring the community together to raise money for local charities by going ‘horse spotting’ and paying to see the wonderful statues of the racing horses, which will bring the community together and create a colourful and community loving town. Horse Design Statue Ideas
Possible Patterns/Colours to Apply onto the Horses Horse Riders – The Epsom Derby Winners – 2014 WINNER – JOSEPH O’BRIEN (AUSTRALIA)
Colour/Pattern
As you can see, I have designed a few racing horses which incorporate the specific designs. Just like the Gromit dogs, this shares the same purpose, bring colour to the community. By placing these horses around Epsom, the will lthen go into auction and sold for money which will go towards charity.