OUGD505 MAPPING DEVELOPMENT

After my crit, I began illustrating peoples Uber journeys into their individual diagrams representing their body behaviour/attitude created by the places they travel to. After doing this for five different people, I have proven that everyone has a personal map with a personal behavioural pattern. From one diagram you can see that one person takes Ubers in very short distances around one area, most likely being their home deeming them as quite a lazy person. On the other hand, one person seems to take trips back and forth from one specific location quite often, suggesting that they work here and must commute on a regular basis. This could mean they have quite a solid routine.

After this I'd have to create some sort aesthetic to compliment the context given the fact there wasn't really much to it right now. Something previously suggested was to overlay them in different colours with a key to identify each behavioural pattern by it's colour. I did this however I feel like it looks a bit child like in a way given the fact the concept has been quite well thought out. To develop this further, I think I should keep the illustrations separate as this collaged version seems way too complicated and difficult to follow. I will also try redrawing this carefully with a single weight line.

I traced over the paths of one of the journey diagrams on illustrator to create a more minimal diagram, not including the circles marking the location because I feel like this gave it more of an illustrative style that would highlight possible body features resembling a behavioural pattern. After this, I had a very minimal line drawing which I could further play with. I used the fill tool to try and include some more features however it just made the illustration more flat. I transformed the flat fill with a gradient and this bought out a lot more detail and features within the illustration. It highlighted parts that overlapped and also pieces that were more closer together, originally hidden by the fill. This helps translate my idea on a clearer level, expressing features relating to specific forms of body language or behaviour. 

After this process I repeated it again with two of the more interesting maps, creating three very different illustrations personalised to each individual. I placed them with a piece of type which could possibly be the layout for my print. The type could feature a mood or behavioural pattern and a definition of that to compliment the work, giving it a bit of context.