The work was inspired by artist Peter Defty who made a series of alphabets titled ‘Alphatecture’. Defty created alphabets for many major cities using photographs of buildings in the respective city. While Waterhouse is well known in architecture and design-spheres, I felt his presence in Liverpool was under-recognised and under-appreciated. Some of Liverpool’s most iconic buildings were designed by him such as the Victoria building, namesake of the redbrick university, and the North Western Hotel next to Lime Street Station.
From this alphabet I designed posters, a short publication, a set of concertinas, and an accompanying 3D lasercut map.