[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-designing-monsterville":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today I was back in Stratford, north London, doing some more work with the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/\">Discover story centre\u003C/a> team to design the upcoming \u003Cb>Monsterville\u003C/b>, a village people will be able to visit, populated entirely by monsters! The Grand Opening's on Sat, 28 May, and you can \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/discover\">read all about it and see sketches in some of my older posts here\u003C/a>. It was fabulous seeing the brilliant \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neallayton.co.uk/\">Neal Layton\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.edvere.com/\">Ed Vere\u003C/a> again, and meeting for the first time our soundtrack composer, \u003Cb>Sam Hooper\u003C/b>. Discover's general manager \u003Cb>Paul Callaghan\u003C/b> led the meeting, and wow, that dude knows everything about printing, vinyl, fake grass, lighting, you name it. So impressed.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_5-489c990375.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Neal Layton, Sarah McIntyre, Sam Hooper, Ed Vere with Monsterville props\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_9-77f00db840.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Drawing for the bandstand by Neal Layton\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_2-5bd252bd71.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Ed Vere examines the Monsterville mock-up set\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_10-798a45a721.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Loads more photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_1-efee1f9170.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Yummy treats for my Lolliplops soda fountain cafe\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_11-9f977d8f52.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Neal's museum curator\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_15-b8db41afee.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Agent Tamlyn Francis showing some of Neal's drawings\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_8-72462b6bdc.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Neal's museum colour sketch\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_17-687eaa35bb.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Ed's designs for the entrance\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_4-d9ccae544a.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Discover director Sally Goldsworthy and Sam Hooper\u003Ci>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_6-a4154b112b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_14-6cd126cabc.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Paul shows off some potential fur we could use\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_3-27e864e70d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_13-0f12b32601.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Ed's tunnel of doom\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_18-bbbca636dd.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Ed and Discover's Eleanor Butler\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_7-74fc51f5e9.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Someone had already drawn on these monster cards; the scientist head made me laugh.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_16-61380e6ae6.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Can't go wrong with eyeballs!\u003C/i>","2011-02-22T18:10:00.000Z","designing-monsterville",[],"designing monsterville",1776628719776]