A two dimensional detailed isometric illustration showing land use areas, community, transportation, connection, and planning. The uses and applicable metaphors for this style of illustration are limitless. The compactness and detail keeps it feeling active and busy. Note the color discipline, which keeps the focus on the overall structure and flow, not the items themselves, that is tremendously useful in storytelling. Fun and light, but powerful, eye-catching, and entertaining.
It is pretty detailed, that is part of the fun and adds the interest that holds the viewer's attention. This wireframe view shows the level of detail and construction. Notice that this is a 2D illustration, not 3D. Every line was drawn with the pen tool in Illustrator. The secret to this style is using an isometric grid, and using the Scale/Shear/Rotate method of drawing isometric bodies. (If you are an illustrator, Google it man. it is totally worth it.) Still, it requires a real commitment, you won't crank this stuff out quickly.
Fun details hold the viewer's eye and attention. Give them opportunities to project themselves into the story you are telling; what would it be like to live there and go to those little bodegas? Is that Satriale's Pork Store?
Lots of small details can add a lot of interest and reality to an illustration. For instance the pipes and tanks of the power plant, the speed bumps, or the hook on the crane. They can also help the viewer suspend disbelief, & overlook the distortions and 'artistic license' necessary to tell the story, and not necessarily present an accurate representation of empirical reality. For instance, a truck that is longer than a power plant, or a compact car as high as a building's first story. (About ten feet high.)
