A production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed

event such as TV program, video game, music video or advertisement. Production

designers have a key creative role in the creation of motion pictures and television.
Working directly with the director and producer, they must select the settings and
style to visually tell the story.
With a randomly selected artist, concept visualisation is needed to explore ideas of
how the artists style can be incorparted into a city environment.
Production design will be needed throughout the project, from the designs of the
buildings to all the street elements to make sure the city has a fluidity with the artist.
Full concept art must produced to show initial thoughts and work flow, so that
orthographics can be produced and 3D environment produced.

Rene Lalique was a major player in the Art Deco and Art
Nouveau movements, with his experimental designs in
jewellery, glassware and architecture.
His Inspirations that inspired his jewellery and glass-work
where Snakes and swallows, pincones and orchids, ice
and snow. He tried to capture the motion of movement
in his works if it was the arcs of swooping swallows to the
patterns of schools of fish deep beneath the ocean.
His use of unusual natural materials that where slightly
deformed where placed next to the brilliant sapphires or
diamonds to heighten the effect of the stones.

There was a new beginning starting to form in the world, form

follows function and the in the eyes of some, modernism
was failing to capture their hearts. A colony was formed to
fabricate a new city in all the luxurious that they enjoyed and
to continue their exuberant lifestyles and escape the new
modern forming world.

However as night falls and the lights are turned on, something
beautiful emerges from the decay Like a rose growing from
a grave. Although Lapis is in social degeneration, There
is something fascinating to see here when the life-switch
is flicked on in the city and the eccentric and troubled
inhabitants come out to fill their desires and habits.

The inhabitants of Lapis, where extremely gifted bohemian

craftsman and artists, carving their way for a very lucrative
economy. Setting up a world class industrial enterprise
providing their exquisite artistry to the worlds appetite. With
the abundance of fortune to spare, Lapis was fabricated
as though it was a fine piece of Art Nouveau in itself. No
expense was spared on the aesthetics and lifestyle that this
new city provided.

This was a city of glass domed structures and exuberant

entrance halls, with jewelled faades that glimmer in the
light. Though the jewels where not the most expensive,
they where picked to give the most romanticised aesthetic
pleasures. One can only imagine that when this city was
in full bloom it would have been very pleasing to ones eye
as the symmetrical forms and pearlecent glass work blend
into something that would comfortably sit in the worlds best
galleries. But today, the glass is tarnished and some of the
jewels are missing due to the thieves and the need to feed
their habits.

The city of Lapis (Brilliant blue) was designed to maximise

the pleasures of life, through exquisite decor and lifestyle. A
city of endless sustained pleasures, flamboyant architecture
and excessive splendour that stimulates ones sensual
conscious to all the excitement. With a abundance of fine
drinking establishments, Dancing theatres, boudoirs and
smoking rooms the civilians of Lapis had all the elements to
destroy this once beautiful city
Due to the society mixing with the more vicious elements
of life, the degeneration of this city is at full steam. The
Dandies have turned into drunks, the dancer have turned
into prostitutes and the artist smoke far to much opium.
What once was a well maintained sparkling city, it is now
run-down and mottled with dirt, like a decaying body losing
its colour of life.
Through the day Lapis seems to be a ghost town, odd
silhouettes in top-hats and tails dishevelled from the
nights exuberance, can be seen staggering between the
buildings, their skin looks dull, exhausted and sickly. And
this seems to be reflected in the decaying architecture of
Lapis. The once gleaming glass domed buildings, seem to
have a translucent sickly pale colour cast, as though the life
is dying from this city.

The heart of this city, is the entertainment district, located

along the riverside, complexes of Cafs, Restaurants,
Cabaret theatres and boudoirs that line the dockside,
Neglected walkways decorated in the flamboyant flowing
lines of art nouveau railings guide you down to the main
complexes building with other stair wells effortlessly gliding
of to the other establishments held within. When these
formations where seen from above by the sight seeing
balloons that used float high up knocking on the sky, they
could classed as a piece of art in itself. These once grand
viewing balloons are still lofting in the sky, clawing at the
clouds trying to stay afloat.
A series of elaborate decorated bridges seem to effortlessly
suspend the river linking the decadent metropolis providing
easy access on cobbled streets that when wet look like
gems from the reflections of the glass.

In the distance Huge arched towers loom high up into the

sky, that are the entrances to what used to be the most
exotic parks in the world, the huge domed greenhouses
used to exhibit some of the rarest botanical plants adding
to the exotic pleasures that this city held. Though today
they are abandoned and derelict, what once where shiny
large gems that sat on the horizon are now skeletons of
their former self.
The streets these days are filled with dancing females,
dressed in jewls that eccenturate their eroticism trying to
tempt the curious eyes of the passing dandies on the way
to fuel dependency of alcohol and drugs. Their eccentric
dress is in full bloom, acting as a gentlemen should before
the debauchery sets it. Only for the females to wait for the
easy pickings on the dandies return journey once they have
had their evenings fix.
Once these Cabaret Dancers where celebrities, entertaining
the public in the passionate theatres, But as the decadence
of the city took its grip the boudoirs where becoming more
popular and more profitable, so the cycle of the dancers
progressed into escort and prostitution.
What once was the underpass network of the city, Where
a gentleman could stumble his way back to his abode and
not de-gentrify himself to much in public. Has now formed
a place for the prostitutes and degenerates who have given
up on the fundamental cultural needs of a working city a underworld of addicts caused by the endless pleasures
that Lapis provides, a city of its own destruction. Showing
that the fabric of society which was the key for Lapiss
creation, has lead to the cities cultural decline and this once
blossoming city, will suffer the same fate as the autumn
leaves.