Assignment 2 - Less is More

The requirement of this assignment is to create ONE pictogram for a local site – i.e. shopping complex, school, community centre, sport hall, housing estate or national park etc. For the final submission we need process of abstraction, one final prototype and an indicator.

I came out with a few ideas for this assignment. My first idea was to do a pictogram telling bus passengers to move to the back of the bus but I gave up the idea because I found it quite hard to take a photo of the scene. My second idea was about the up arrow sign in the shopping complex. Sometime when I need to find the toilet in the mall, I followed the toilet and the up arrow sign but end up the up arrow sign is telling us the toilet is at another floor. The up arrow sign does not mean walk straight. I would get confused so I was thinking I can make a more clearer pictogram. My third idea was to create a pictogram telling MRT passengers not to lean onto the MRT grab pole when the train is crowded. I decided to choose my third idea and here is my process of abstraction:

The feedback I got for my workpiece is that most of my classmates cannot see the meaning I wants to show. They thought that the person on the right of the grab pole is holding onto the pole instead of leading on it. I think my source photo didn't communicate my meaning well, so I think I need to recapture another clearer photo.

After I had capture another clearer photo, I redo my process of abstraction. During the consultation with the tutor, I showed her my new process of abstraction as follows:

I told my tutor that I chose the 5th picture as my final pictogram. Then she give me some feedback: she suggests that I can choose the 4th picture as my final pictogram because she say it look quite different from the normal pictogram. She also says that I can add more details to the 3rd picture and make my currently 3rd picture as my 4th picture.

After listening to her comments, I edited the necessary things. I also changed the hand holding the pole because I find my previous drawing of the hand don't really look like it had problem holding the pole. Here is my final process of abstraction and the final pictogram: