Technique focus
DESIGN LANGUAGE
Tyler Edlin on crafting fantasy settings with inspiration from the real world
“Building a world like this takes both time and patience. The best thing that you can do is plan and sketch. If you want to create a fantasy setting, ask yourself, ‘What is the design language going to look like?’ For me, creating a design language combines two different, unrelated facets. For this piece, I combined the shapes of various sea anemones with the functionality of a fortress that included a hint to Islamic mosques. Everything that we need for a fantasy setting exists within the real world, you just have to interpret it in your own personal way.”