tutorial 3: processes of abstraction

at tutorial, to my horror, 2 other classmates did a pictogram of a water cooler! and what's worse i heard a lot of people from the other classes did the same!

that aside, ms siti suggested that i simplify the plug and pipe from the 1st stage of my abstraction process and add it to the 2nd stage as well. thanks siti! she also really like the grey line showing the abstraction process.

so here's the finished product, in preparation for my portrait-oriented portfolio, but i still think i need to work on it more...

assignment 2: of abstracts and prototypes

so, following the water cooler idea that i was rather pleased with, i went around school taking pictures of the various types of water coolers we have around. and found two most common.

and here's the degree of abstraction.

i had a lot of difficulty doing a 3D pictogram for the first stage and so i went straight to 2D. i'm just worried that the simplification or abstraction, rather, was too little for each stage! but that was really the best i could do - i hope tutorial would help give me some ideas...

lecture 4: pictograms

i think the lesson learnt from the lecture is that pictograms are abstract. as simple and obvious as that sounds quite duh that a pictogram needs to be abstract but its not as simple as it sounds. it needs to not be entirely like what it signifies yet it needs to have some form or relation to it.

our assignment is to create a pictogram that can be used in nus. and it struck me immediately to do something about water coolers, since we have so many of them yet no one really knows where they are! i was rather pleased with myself d=