GOOD AFTERNOON! This post concludes the FINAL of Part 1 Project 2 of Zine: Neighborhood Explorer presentation!

This is the infographics on Telok Blangah that I have finalized 🙂


The data I have placed in my infographics are mainly from the Qualitative data (Personal Recounts)that I have gotten from interviews and secondary sources of the exact location names or address online that they have recommend me to visit.

Concept : Present it as a schedule like guide as to how an elderly in Telok Blangah gets by in a day.

Tone: Light Hearted.

Methodology

  1. I used Haettenschweiler Font as the header and the body text .
  2. Colors used are neutral palletes of scenic blue and green, as well as monochromatic blue for the walking stick.
  3. Attempted to use different shades of the same hue to create depth.
  4. Main illustrations are created using vectors and exporting images into vector online.
  5. Icons are used as bullet points for each category of activity.
  6. Joy mentioned that a my initial idea of using a cane may be misinterpreted as ‘Immobility’ instead of ‘Elderly’. Hence I changed the type of walking stick to the one with legs that elderlies, as I really required vertical semiotic that represents elderlies.

I was inspired to use time stamp and used this two infographics obtained from Pinterest. I extracted the range thing } from the chili infographic to mark out the time line.

Classmates’ Comments and Feedback

Joy’s Comments and Feedback 🙂

  • Joy said that this is her first time seeing my illustrations digitally, good job!.
  • Liked that I staggered the information according to timeline. And that giving it a range does give us a guide to when they can execute their activity. However looking at it as a whole it can be seen that it is a day in the life of any elderly and not specifically unique to Telok Blangah elderly.
  • Site specific icons can be created instead of using a generic bird to represent “Recreational Activity”. Something recognizable for instance the location of the bird watching location or certain food from Telok Blangah acting as marker would be better.
  • Colors for “work” reminds her of Watsons logo. Joy worries for potential misinterpretation in my infographics.
  • Text is still cramped even though got drop shadow, hence readability of text is still difficult :(. Typeface that you used is used is better for display type for headers instead of body text. Generally texts on infographics still need to be readable. When you can’t see your text well due to the background colour, it is a cue that text is required to be changed.
  • Location names are long as “Telok Blangah” is repeating in many of the bullet points, hence re-emphasising the crampness. Putting a main header : “Telok Blangah”, in general and just list down may reduce the crampness.
  • Style is quite unique and there is still space that can be explored.
  • Shaf liked the concept of day in the life cause she don’t know  what old people do in genera But font though, it is still hard to read :(.

With that I conclude the completion of ZINE part 1 here and I’ll see you again in PART 2 😀

NEW PROJECT IS HERE!!

Our second project for 2D foundation class is called ‘Forrest Gump’! So let me start my research before we dive right into the course work!

Project Brief:

Create a visual narrative that expresses each movie quote of your choice using only symbols, pictograms, dingbats(ornaments), icons and engravings as your visual vocabulary.

The old engraving imagery puts the composition into historical context. You are to manipulate, alter and deconstruct the found graphic imagery to transcend its original meaning through the creation of the indicated narratives. Pay particular attention to the application of design principles to create visually engaging compositions.

 

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Symbols:

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A mark that is universally recognized to represent an object, action or situation.

Pictograms:

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Pictograms are pictorial symbols for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

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Pictograms are also used as pictorial representation of statistics on a chart, graph, or computer screen.

Dingbats:

A dingbat is an ornament (used for decoration/embellishment), character, or spacer used in typesetting (composition of texts), often employed for the creation of box frames.

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The term continues to be used in the computer industry to describe typeface that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters.

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In summary, I understand Dingbats as a form of ornamental embellishment OR symbols or shape that acts as a semiotic. (Correct me if I am wrong surprised)

Icons:

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Icon has a physical resemblance to the signified, the symbol being represented and is usually a pictorial representation.

Engravings:

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Engraving is putting a design onto a hard, flat surface (stone, wood, metal etc.), by carving into it resulting in a decorative piece.

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Or may provide a printing plate of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper which are also called engravings.

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More research will be done on my visual journal starting from this project onwards (I hope), and I will be uploading images of my journal in the furure!

Cheers,

Seng Yi Ling~smile