Speaking from experience: Maps

Maps of leeds city centre

Maps of Leeds - Second hand shops located

Map designs


Visual hierarchies - simple monochrome graphic design guide

Visual layout 

Key elements for designing a map:

1.  Begin by defining your purpose and your audience

2.  Make your map a story

3.  Keep it simple

4. Direct the viewer’s eye

5.  Design for a viewing distance

Unconventional Maps

Info-graphics map

Levi's Loves

Local illustrators were chosen to interpret the theme Levi's® Loves Local for Levi's® South Africa. The graphics will initially be used for a range of T-shirts and later for Levi's® 

merchandise. The shape of Africa had to be part of the design, showing South Africa clearly.

Sources:

www.viamichelin.co.uk

maps.google.co.uk

http://makingmaps.net/

http://landtrustgis.org/technology/advanced/design
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Levis-Loves-Local/366284

Speaking from experience: Second hand shops in leeds

Speaking from experience: Brief & task

BRIEF

Produce a graphic response/ graphic product /body of work that makes a statement, comment, observation or gives advice about your experience on your first year of this course. You will need to identify appropriate content, and develop/identify appropriate media/formats that will effectively deliver your concept to next years new first years. Will it be entertaining, advisor, informative or instructional?

Background / Considerations

Think about the new experiences that you have had, the difficulties that you have overcome and the new people you have met and the life skills you have acquired this year. Remember what it was like starting your first week, how did you feel and what emotions did you experience? Excitement, trepidation, fear or did you feel overwhelmed. You might have benefited from some advice, opinions and insight from others that have experienced the same transition. What might you say, do or give to next years graphic design students to make the transition into the student experience, particularly this course more welcoming? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the following task we were set by fred to identify what type of massage we wanted to convey: 3 messages that i want to deliver 5 reasons why it needs delivering 5 ways they can be delivered  identify 3 problems that could be addressed for each problem: 5 ways of why it needs addressing  5 ways of how it could be solved  messages: -how to get walk to college from liberty park -- quickest route -how to get drunk -survival food - basics -where to find a bargain - clothes, food, essentials -where to do a food shop -best weekday night life message 1: where to find a bargain (clothes) 5 reasons why it needs delivering: - to save money  - cut costs - be able to buy more - happy shoppers 5 ways it can be delivered: - an online website - a map - booklet - poster - zine 3 problems: -high street clothing tends to be over priced -new students maybe don't know leeds enough to know where to find bargains - vintage and charity shops a ret as well know/ advertised as much as hight street shops 5 ways of why it needs addressing: 'High street clothing tends to be over priced'  - to give people the opportunity to look even if they don't buy - to tell people about clothes bargains  - so that students don't over spend - so that students can get their moneys worth when shopping - spread the word about cheaper clothes shops around 5 ways of how it could be solved: