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: This design is an illustrated map from Saint Aubin du Cormier for the greetings card 2018. As the book "Where's Wally?", this comic map illustrates lots of details from the city of Saint Aubin du Cormier. So, everyone is invited to recognise or discover the most important monuments, evenements, places...
: I wanted to propose an original and artistic greetings card.
: In a second step, from this greeting card, a giant map to color of the entire city could be realized and also a touristic map for the unhabitants of the city and tourists.
: The creation represents one month of work with the researchs, the creation of the illustration, the discussions and corrections.
: Also inspired by an idea from Omy brand which creates big illustrated posters of famous cities as Paris, New York, San Francisco, Berlin...I have found it could be a good idea to propose an illustrated map for the greetings card of the city of Saint Aubin du Cormier. This is a very beautiful small town with a castle, a pond, a historic city center ... that was an ideal setting for this drawing project. I proposed the idea to the municipality of the city and they accepted to develop this concept with me. And as a new inhabitant of the city of Saint Aubin du Cormier, it also was a good way to discover my new city.
: I am not influenced by other designers but as I said, I have been influenced by the Omy brand which creates big illustrated posters of famous cities.
: The inhabitants of the city of Saint Aubin du Cormier and tourists.
: To reuse the illustration for a touristic map, a giant poster to color and why not an exhibition in the city ?
: The name for this design "The City of Saint Aubin du Cormier Greetings card" was obvious, no ?
: I used a graphic tablet for two reasons: to facilitate the corrections of the illustrated map and to have a vectorized drawing which will make it possible to print the map in small or big without altering the quality of the drawing.
: The most important part of this design is the pleasure of discovering and recognizing the details of the city where we live ... a tourist and fun discovery.
: I worked with the Mayor Deputy who had to check and valid all the steps of this creation to have a map as realistic as possible.
: Drawing with a graphic tablet offers me the possibility to keep the sensitivity of a drawing by hand and also print the illustration in all sizes.
: To succeed this project, I had an access to a bank of photos of the city by the town hall (google drive). Moreover many meetings with the Deputy Mayor was obligatory to valid all stages of the creation.
: To find the good combination between a realistic representation and an drawing interpretation of the city.
: I have been contacted by one of a Public Relation Manager of A'Design Award.
: I have learned a lot of details about my city.
