Going through some old sketches during a hard drive search, I came across half a sketch book worth of Hong Kong sketches. HK is such an evocative city, dense and fantastically human, perfect for pen and brush.
The UX geek came out while looking at the sketches and I had a hard time not getting bento with them. There’s something about the geometric jigsaw that just makes you want to partition…
Original photo credit: Yuemenlimy (Picture)
I recall how my stomach was guiding my perspective on that trip, making me think that everything resembled food. From steamers of dim sum to the waterways glistening like fish yaw, I think I only walked ten minutes before stopping for something to eat or drink.
For a visitor living in another part of China it was perspective shifting, something the following sketch shows – believe it or not, it’s right-side up.
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