A Complex Drawing

Case Study: Caesar's Palace Sign, Las Vegas

 

The drawing’s centerpiece portrays the Las Vegas Strip buildings forming a Mobius strip, a closed geometry with only one surface. This is to emphasize the concept portraying the endless character of a cluster of wonders, whether in time or location represented by the grandiose hotels and resorts that eventually build around the casinos where the gambling could be everlasting to ‘fuel’ this ‘pleasure zone.’

 

 

Meanwhile, the shape of the Mobius strip reveals the dichotomy between the exterior (façade, signs) and interior (casino) so that the audience could have a holistic and lucid picture of the situation and the mechanism behind it by offering juxtaposition of different perspectives. To attract visitors and manipulate them in contributing to ‘fuel,’ designers utilize artificial and natural wonders, equipped with bright neon signs as the former while having a complex and immense plan and dimmed lighting for the latter.

 

 

Last but not least, the ‘Monopoly’-like bills with signs’ elevation imprinted blow from the strip further strengthen signs or the exteriority’s role as the bargaining chips in this seemingly eternal game of manipulation and money for the industry. The color scheme implies the hotels’ belongings to greater groups, who are the real players behind the spectacles.