Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Final Project Ideas: Navigation Design

INSTEAD of doing CTA, which is a company I'm not in love with anyhow, I'd like to attempt to make a map of all of the music venues in Chicago. I will still use the fold-out book layout which will fold open into a map of Chicago with call-outs for the the music venues. A few examples:

Navigation Design Research

Edward Tufte

Final Project Ideas: Branding Identity

My other idea is to rebrand a company using gestural photographs similar to this:

Final Project Ideas: Navigation Design

I'm thinking of doing a CTA map with photos of each stop... Book that folds out into a map using this type of template:
A little ambitious to photograph the entire map, so maybe I will focus on one "L" line in particular. Luckily, CTA's website provides the map, now all I need to do is insert photographs. I would either like to find something special at each stop or take photographs in this style:

Monday, November 9, 2009

Stop Motion

This video isn't too relevant to this course, however I feel it deserves a place in this blog as it's a unique use of photography. The opening title sequence is a sort of graphic space. Also, I slaved over its creation so it deserves some viewage!


View on vimeo for HD: http://www.vimeo.com/7510160

Graphic Space