Ottolenghi are a company with a series of very successful delis, and restaurants dotted around the centre of London. Their food is "a distinctive mix of Middle Eastern flavours – Syrian, Turkish, Lebanese, Iranian, Israeli and Armenian with a Western twist".
This year the company issued an open competition to design a premises locator summed up within one image for a postcard. And I thought it would be fun to have a go - you never know where these things lead to. So I began work on my own entry.
I have used food such as a gherkin and a cheese grater (two nicknames for some of London's newer buildings) to insert a bit of humour in the map of the capital. Sadly, it was not eventually chosen by the company, but I did see the Ottolenghi owner, Yotam Ottolenhgi's reaction to my entry "that's just brilliant", which is a great compensation.
Here are some details of the map.
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| The Belgravia side of London |
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| The East End including Islington and Spitalfields |
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| The West End Including Notting Hill and Nopi in Warwick Street |
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| South London |
Process
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| I planned the image using a map of London as reference |
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| When the drawing was complete I scanned it into the computer |
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| An early colour option. |
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