Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an open-air gallery in West Yorkshire showing work by British and international artists including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. The park has a forever changing collection of work, however some installations and sculptures are permanent to the open-area.

We were set a task of redesigning the symbol or logo for the sculpture park (pictured above). To do this we are limited to making a simple symbol that works well next to the title of the park. This symbol must be influenced by the park and the work within it.

I have approached this brief by first putting together a selection of photos and first-hand sketches of the sculptures, buildings and surrounding area. I wanted to gather as much info about the park as i could, both visually and factual, before I started to produce symbol ideas. 

I was blown away by the collection of sculptures around the park. With work from such amazing artists and sculptures, with the surrounding area combined, it makes for a spectacular experience and a hugely influential and beneficial source of research. 

One thing that grabbed my attention in particular however was not the sculptures but one of the buildings housing artist collections. This building is a modern chic design built with steel, glass and wood panels. It's beautifully elegant and clean and makes for a perfect gallery space. I've decided to use the image on the right as a starting point for one of my symbols, taking some of the lines and textures and simplifying it into a shape.

Gallery building