Map Development

I have started to come up with some more ideas of how I could communicate my concept and research (pink map, based on 28 pink items I saw on a 10 minute journey) through the design of the map. I have already created some visual designs but I think experimenting more could be useful in developing and adding to the designs that I have already created if relevant.

Notes from sketches:

• The different 28 items of pink clothing could be represented through 28 different Pink Pantone shades- still sticks with the Pantone idea whilst being more interesting. However this would be way too difficult and expensive to screen print that many colours, it would only work if I digitally printed
• The 28 different shades could be represented through 28 different illustrations of the items of clothing that I saw (and how many of each, so 6 coats etc)
• The illustrations of the clothing could be dotted on the design of the map along the journey route/line
• The pink journey line could be created with clothing illustrations or 28 different shades of pink

Additionally, below shows a visual example of the idea which follows the concept of representing the 28 different items of pink clothing through 28 different shades of pink with the journey route line on top. This idea could be interesting if developed, but this would be too difficult to screen print and doesn't seen exciting enough at the moment.

Additionally, the Pantone idea that I originally started to design still remains the most interesting concept wise as well as visually. The first image below shows the original developed design, designed to look like a Pantone card, the point that needs developing now is the 28 different items of clothing, it is listed on the card but I think it needs to be visually more obvious. The design next to it shows the actual map version of the journey based on pink items.

Furthermore, displaying the full map looks a lot more interesting so this was then developed in a way which would allow it to be screen printed whilst linking to the concept. The map visual was developed through making it grey scale (just black lines) with the pink journey line in the same pink, this makes the journey line stand out a lot more as well.

Additionally, another idea could be to keep the Pantone card as the original pink design with the edited black and white map with the pink line on the back- working as a double sided map could be interesting and fun to do. Or another way in which I could develop the black and white map Pantone card is through incorporating the 28 items more into it visually somehow, I will display all of these ideas in Mondays critique in order to gain feedback on which areas to develop.

Screen printable version, black and white with the pink.
Threshold and colour experiment