Time Table Lee Tzong Han
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Date	Time	Activities
15th July	9:00pm-11:00pm	Research
16th July	1:50pm-4:00pm	Group discussion
24th July	2:00pm-3:00pm	Research
31st July	11:00pm-1:30am	Research of icon, sketching icons
2nd August	3:55pm-5:00pm	Group discussion
5th August	11:00am-3:15pm	Research, Sketching icons
6th August	10:00am-5:00pm	Revisiting Zoo
8th August	4:00pm-4:30pm	Group discussion
9th August	12:40pm-6:00pm	Group discussion
10th August	9:00pm-10:30pm	Research
	4:00am-6:30am	Research, Sketching icons
11st August	10:30am-11:45pm	Group discussion
14th August	3:00pm-5:00pm	Group discussion
16th August	3:00pm-7:00pm	Digital tracing of icons
18th August	10:45am-3:15pm	Group discussion
19th August	3:00pm-5:45pm	Digital tracing of icons
20th August	10:45am-4:00pm	Group discussion
21st August	11:00pm-3:30am	Digital tracing of icons
23rd August	9:00pm-4:00am	Refinement of icons
24th August	11:00am-3:30m	Refinement of icons
25th August	10:45am-10:00pm	Group discussion
29th August	4:00am-8:30am	Slide presentation, critical writing

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.

Reference for wayfinding.
http://books.google.com.my/books?id=kUzCsra0zskC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=why+serif+in+wayfinding&source=bl&ots=5iPUKglG7f&sig=NcSrrr6j0JMejrxoti0-kGqAY5U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XXkdULj9LYK3rAeQtoCYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=why%20serif%20in%20wayfinding&f=false

This is an e-book which shows the guidance of wayfinding. 

Before painting, I have drawn the final version with clearer stroke in grid paper.

However, after tracing all the animal icons digitally, we have realized that those icons look like a drawing, instead of icon. In addition, it cannot be seen from further distance clearly because all the lines are too thin.

About the toilet and restaurant signage, i have tried certain design by using only 1 line. But, it doesn't really work well, and thus separating those character by using 1 line respectively, instead of 1 line for whole icon.

Thinking about the legibility, i have thickened the line and also add circle shapes according to different zones to create a point of emphasis, interest, or dominance. This will capture and hold the viewer’s attention.

http://www.shapes4free.com/shapes-design-inspiration/circle-shapes-for-web-design-inspiration/



 

In some special case, some animals are hard to be recognized without the texture, such as zeebra, tiger and penguin. Especially penguin, its body shape is much stronger than the head. However, I would like to standalized all of them, except those small species animal, insect. Therefore, I have used the line to create the positive and negative in order to fit in with the idea.

About the facilities icon, our group have been suggested to use the 'one line' idea as well. Nonetheless, the result doesn't show that it is work. Since once inverting them, it shows that the shape and the thickness is too weak to indicate.



After deciding to use my drawing as the final icons for zoo, I have started to sketch out the other animals. In addition, 'one line' idea has been utilised in this term. Pressing harder stroke to emphasize the sharpen part, such as animal horn. the starting and ending part of the line are bias to thin to reveal the idea of 'one line' obviously.

Sketches for icon - Han

 



 We have chosen particular animals to create icons. In my sketches, I have adopted the side view of animal head, since it can be recognizable to everyone. For fitting with the conceptual idea of logo, would like to retain the stroke drawing. Thus, I have thought of Jawi typeface and Chinese calligraphy.

 

Jawi

 

chinese regular script

 

 After that, I have tried to sketched out the icons by using the curvy and different thinkness stroke to reveal the speciality of these typeface.