Getting to know a city by walking through it is an endless pleasure. How about getting to understand a city that you already know and live in by seeing it with new eyes?

PatternLondon is a blog written by Lucy Elder, a Londoner who appreciates an overlooked yet perfectly accessible world of pattern that exists within a city she clearly loves and knows well.

And oh it’s a visual treat! A blog that’s far from vacuous, it gently flits across the patterns that decorate a multitude of subject matter including art, architecture, textiles, design and the built environment. Elder’s own photography is combined with well chosen images of ephemera- patterns in their loosest sense that adorn London. Each post involving a specific location is also lovingly plotted on its own Google Map should they wish to visit the site of the aforementioned patterns.

It appears as a well informed anti-guide; the kind of guide that deserves to grow slowly over time, developing hidden gems and pearls of wisdom within its neatly linked posts.

It is a new blog, but already the amount of well-referenced tone of voice makes viewing compulsive. One finds themselves compulsively returning to the blog to check whether an interesting window display or tile that you’ve just seen might have peaked the interest of the blogs magpie author.

PatternLondon is as much of a tool as it is a guide. It wants the viewer to leave the blog, walk outside and explore London themselves with fresh eyes.

www.patternlondon.com
Google map: bit.ly/8YV2FM

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