Exercise Abstract cities: research

I had to admit that this exercise was very difficult for me.

For my research I mainly used google. I collected some photographs of the requested cities. I walked through the towns via Google Earth which helped me to see the towns from driver view. I read something about the towns on wikipedia. Starting point was the hardest. I decided to make the design similar to the landscape of the town or to a dominant of the town. I chose color palette according to colors in photographs. It was also hard because the towns have different colors in different parts of a day (morning, sunset, night) and in other seasons (autumn, winter etc.). Thus, I chose colors which were dominant: colors on buildings, green if there was parks or trees, blue as the sea, sky etc.

I noticed that each town has very similar colors of buildings (light yellow, white, red) and it was very hard to chose them.