OUIL406 Visual Communication SB2 - "Greetings From" Initial Ideas

After conducting visual research into our cities, we then started to draft some initial ideas for our set of photographs. I tried to go for designs that - whilst represented the individual rail networks, worked as a set and were also recognisable as belonging to their individual cities as well

This set is based about the different seat patterns you find in and around the underground systems - since I find seat patterns pretty interesting and recognisable. Whilst I liked them as a set, I feared that as a final, they would be a little bit too obscure and even though I knew where the seats were from, unless you'd visited the locations yourself, you probably wouldn't do.

This set was designed to focus on the different trains that run in each system. I quite like this idea, and I can feasibly see this working (the paris and berlin trains could be quite obscure, but if the viewer deciphers the london and new york ones, they could probably work out the other two) My main concern with these is what they'd look like in illustrator - i.e - would they perhaps look a little bit too basic? I'm probably going to investigate that further.

This last set is designed to focus around the various signs on the networks - again, something that generally comes to mind when I look into undergounds, and its also something they all have mutually important in common. Again, like the trains I think they would have to be carefully handled because I think they could either look copied (ie - little design work used) or give away too much information. I think cropping would be key with this idea.

I think working with the different ideas in illustrator will change the way I look at them - I think the last two look the most promising though. Maybe if I add more of the surrounding environment to the seats idea, it would look a bit more recognisable?