Project 6: Wayfinding and Mapping

For this project we had to create a visual mapping communication based on real life context.
I found this project extremely difficult to generate ideas and ultimately lacked in my outcome because of this.
Despite my disappointing start to the project, and after a much needed discussion with one of my pathway tutors I finally settled upon an idea based around the route which I use to walk my dog. This then lead me to look at the different paths both me and my dog take as one is slightly more irratic and the other is more straightforward and tends to stick to the path.
From this is began making hand drawn sketches in my sketchbook which showed the two paths taken, however, I also tried the idea digitally and although my finished piece looks simple, once show in my crit session, my tutor really enjoyed the anonymity and the questionability of the work. In addition to this however, it was agreed that I needed something to add to the piece in order to "finish" it and to give it meaning, although I never got round to defining my final outcome for this project.


Overall, I found this project difficult in terms of idea generation and also idea outcomes, this is potentially due to my lack of understanding for the brief which only became apparent once I began talking to fellow students and tutors, who helped me alot.