August 31, 2010
Locomotive Restoration — Wil Freeborn
Flocker Wil Freeborn was recently commissioned to do a series of illustrations documenting a two-month project underway to restore an old locomotive. The Glasgow Museum of Transport is moving from its old location to a new building designed by Zaha Hadid, and the locomotive will be one of its centerpieces. Wil’s illustrations will appear as part of an interactive panel.
Take a look at the full Flickr set, which includes Moleskine sketches, finished illustrations, and photographs — including this one featuring Our Wil, far left.
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Wonderful!
Sheila, I’m glad you posted this. Thanks!
The exhibit designers’ choice to use illustrations rather than photographs in an interpretive panel interests me. In some instances, it seems to me, an illustration can be more useful than a photograph in helping identify or recognize or understand a specific part of physical reality. I’m thinking of field guides to birds, plants, what-have-you and of my preference for the old-fashioned variety with their illustrations of a generic or ‘typical’ boat-tailed grackle, say, in lieu of a photograph.
The whole set are wonderful
damn, that is impressive.
Deron took the words right out of me.
Thanks Sheila for posting this.
Although the brief was as open as can be I was asked to focus on the people working on the restoration. It was felt that photography being so ubiquitous it becomes quite difficult to SEE people quietly working away doing the job.
I’m not sure its part of a field guide depiction though as time is such a part of it.
- w
I get what you’re sayng, Wil. The goal of showing people doing work is different. I do like the idea of taking a different approach from photographs.
excelente.