Our Sydney

Our Sydney

Our Sydney - Legend

1. Fireworks display on New Year’s Eve.
2. Sydney Opera House
3. Sydney Tropical Centre at Royal Botanic Gardens
4. Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair
5. Sydney Tower
6. Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park
7. Jeep driving through the outback.
8. Three Sisters rock formation in the Blue Mountains
9. Town Hall
10. World Tower
11. Guy throwing a boomerang. His shirt refers to the Olympic games held in Sydney in 2000.
12. Rugby player.
13. Cricket player.
14. Bondi Beach. The graffiti wall can be found near the edge of the beach.
15. Surfer
16. Refers to famous Coca-Cola sign in King’s Cross
17. Sydney Ferry. Down Under refers to the nickname for Australia.
18. The dock refers to the place most of the ferries leave from, Circular Quay.
19. The fisherman refers to the abundance seafood available in Sydney.
20. The shark refers to shark attacks that happen off the coast of Sydney.
21. MLC Centre
22. Gum trees found in Hyde Park
23. Koala
24. El Alamein Fountain in King’s Cross
25. Governor Phillip Tower
26. Chifley Tower
27. Sydney Harbour Bridge
28. A person climbing the bridge
29. Queen Victoria Building
30. Anzac War Memorial
31. Street sign referencing King’s Cross and famous street, Oxford Street
32. Australian flag
33. Aboriginal playing a didgeridoo
34. Refers to the night markets in The Rocks
35. Refers to the famous neighborhood, The Rocks.
36. Refers to the First Fleet that landed at Sydney Cove in 1788.
37. Kangaroo
38. Spiral fountain in Darling Harbour.
39. Luna Park entrance
40. My wife and I enjoying coffee, Tim-Tams, and Vegemite at a cafe.

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The brief was to create a cityscape of Sydney that included all of its famous landmarks, icons and figures. The look of the illustration needed to be similar to the Chicago 2010 poster. The legend below explains all of the references in the illustration.

Click on the image to the left to see a larger version.

Personal work
2010

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  1. Joe Mills » Our Sydney…Messing with the Colors says:
    July 8, 2010 at 10:02 am

    [...] I had to work on it more. Actually, my wife said that my earlier version looked too “pastelly”. So, I looked at it again…compared it to Chicago 2010…and it definitely looked different. The structures on the Sydney poster did not pop enough. I went back into it and upped the contrast on some of the buildings. Now…it pops. Check out a larger version and details here. [...]

  2. Joe Mills » New York Poster – Empire State Building says:
    July 15, 2010 at 10:38 am

    [...] familiar…a building. Specifically, I completed the Empire State Building. As I did with the Sydney poster, I drew the building first, scanned it in, and then traced it in Illustrator. I continue to find [...]

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