Laura Oldfied Ford
Laura Oldfield Ford was born in Halifax and is very interested in the Punk subculture and counter culture. Ford is an activist with a voice to be heard. She went to the site of the London 2012 Olympics to document the buildings that had to be vacated for the 2012 Olympic Park. She created beautifully detailed pen drawings of the buildings; some of the drawings then had pink or yellow ink painted over sections of the illustration. The choice of colours was carefully made as pink and yellow are the two main colours in the London 2012 Olympic logo. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3050-always-yearning-for-the-time-that-just-eluded-us https://redandblackrainbows.wordpress.com/tag/laura-oldfield-ford/ https://kottke.org/12/07/the-naughty-2012-olympics-logo While Napoleon was in power he enlisted Haussmann to redesign Paris for him. Napoleon wanted a big open city with large boulevards (main streets) to make crowd control easier and the chance of rebellion dec...