Map Elements and Signage Design

When we started to trace our works, we realize that color for land zone - brown blend in with the surroundings of zoo, so we changed to a slightly similar but different color - orange.


Early color choice of our map

Liwen thought that that shade of blue was too highlighted. Later, I tried different shades of the same colors. In the end, we used the third on top.



At the same time, we are confused by the icon of multipurpose field.


Original icon but transform it into our style


Using canopy, since there's a canopy on the spot. That means that the multipurpose field is for the purpose of event etc. But it looks like circus, especially on map.

There's another problem we need to solve - Buildings. There are a few buildings on the map, but it is not obvious. Since building can be acting as a landmark and visitor might want to visit them as well so we had them included. We don't want the buildings to look like one of our icons cause that will be hard to notice. The third image is the icon for our buildings.




Design we used for our buildings

As for our signboards, we choose to use organic shape with light colored wood texture on. We felt that it is related to nature that way. I had the idea of using Morning Glory-like plants to have them grow upon the pole of directional signage. I know that they might be a problem if they started to cover the instructions but gardeners are employed in Zoo Negara. Later, this idea is dropped.