Mapping03

Just playing around with body marks and reasons. On the top one, tried to connect with locations but it looks just too busy(again). It's getting harder thinking of how to order things as I can't make decisions on priorities. Time and place might be less interesting for me, but in a way it's showing his background. I'm still not sure whether it's important or not.

Mapping02

I tried to put all elements-marks on the body, time, place and reasons. But presenting in this way is not quite working, too busy. Tim wants him to look sexy on the map,haha.




mapping locations and Tim's marks of honors.
I want to show relationship between marks on his body and geographical spots.

Tim's history of body

1983, Gosport : Purpura (unknown reason)
1986, Gosport : Scar (falling off to the swimming pool)
1989, Gosport : Scarlet Fever (camping next to the cow field)
Scar-broken toe (jumping off stairs at home)
1991, Gosport : Scar (running on his friend's head on the beach)
1996-1998, Gosport and Bristol : Perforated eardrum
(1. kicked under the water by a stranger who jumped on
to the swimming pool.
2. happened again.
3. punched by his girlfriend at that time.)
2000, Bristol : Scar (jumping underneath the door-frame)
Broken Finger (punching his friend)
2004, Bristol : Scar (from operation)
Scar (from operation)
2007, Russia : Scar (playing football in the night)
London : Scar (falling off stairs pushed by his friend.)

* Lots of times and everywhere : tonsillitis

Mapping01

Marks based on Tim's medical research.
As I'm still in early stage of mapping, I only marked what he drew on the body shape.
He had stories to tell on most of his scars and disease which I found it quite funny. I want to go further to tell his stories, adding time facts, or locations(where he got scars).

Idea-Research: History of body

I asked my housemates to mark where they have scars, bruises, wounds etc on their body and write short description how they got it from.
My idea is mapping them all in one male and one female body figures which show front and back separately.

Poster for lecture: Robert Urquhart

Yes, it's boring. I think I don't give any pleasure to helvetica.
They got so bored with me.

Research - Alison Barnes "maps of new basford in Nottingham"

"One of a series of maps produced by Alison Barnes.
In this map Barnes has typographically charted the graffiti in New Basford, Nottingham. The detail shows the nature of the graffiti, tags, and insults displayed street by street in the area."


"A series of publications made as part of her research.
She used bar and pie charts to designate a range of information relating to the proliferation of graffiti and tagging in each street."



"All readable instances of graffiti within the area. The graffiti is categorised by subjects that are represented by colours."




"Maps are an accepted part of everyday life and, for most people, they are simply a graphic representation of space, regardless of whether they deal with road systems, populations, or natural features of the landscape. They become embedded in society as an unquestioned truth, a reality- they have become territory. However, the territory, its inhabitants and their behaviours are inevitably more complex than conventional maps illustrate."

All quoted from the book "Visual Research:An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design By Ian Noble and Russell Bestley.
Then I found quite interesting review about this book.
http://www.eyemagazine.com/review.php?id=123&rid=574&set=644

Helpful website

http://infosthetics.com/
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Janice Caswell, "Wall Drawings"
http://janicecaswell.com/marl.html

some research

Examples of mapping(I think) in the books and magazine.
Some are quite irrelevant.





Because it didn't say anything about it on the description(or I ignored to read it), I had no idea about stompstamp. It was, in a way, making me feeling guilty observing this website.(My friend who saw me looking at this website said he was gonna call the police.) StompStamp is a brand selling kids wear legally, I believe, therefor this website is for mums&dads or their friends&siblings, not for the people who can be called "big 'P' words".

what I like, what I don't like

First project which was making film about myself.
As it was a week project, I decided to make this film simple as possible.

Instead of doing epic poetry of myself,I took the note I wrote down one night in the dining room and visualised it.


Still need to work on it - change subtitles(font and timing), ending sequence.
And if possible, sound design as well.

HP Ad

Can't find HP Ad by surface to air paris.