Module 2 Formstorming

Weekly Activity Template

Cerin Noupbaev

Project 2

Module 2

Formstorming for Cerin's final project 2 design.

Week 6

Lake Balkhash, the color schemes of the next maps will be based off these colors. First iteration, defaulted to my usual muted color palette. Tried out a blue for the land. I don't like it, it feels confusing to look at. Double greens! I like it but it'd look better if the roads were lighter or a different color. Trying more vibrant colors and more contrast here. I like it! Tried brown for land. It looks bad with the other colors. Changed road colors and changed the land shade. I like it more than the last one. Bayterek Tower in Astana, Qazaqstan. The next maps will be based on this. Muted color scheme as usual! Tried some more contrast but still pretty muted. Double greens. I don't like this because the greens in the photo didn't allow for the right contrast. More contrast and vibrancy! I like this but not my favorite from this. Chose some better colors and I like this more than the last one. My favorite of these. I tried neon colors since I HATE neon colors. I really like this though! CN Tower in you should know where! LOL. As per usual, next maps based on this. Muted and vibrant colors. I like the contrast here but the roads could be lighter. Neon colors again. Hate this. I think double purples here don't work. Much better neons! I like that the background is a brown-purple and then the roads are neon yellow. Complimentary colors are the best. Double blues, not as confusing as I thought it'd be. It helps that the land's blue is pretty desaturated and dark. More neons, again, love the complimentary colors. I like the muted water and greenspace colors paired with the neon roads. Tried an all-pink neon scheme. It doesn't look terrible but I should've made the roads lighter. Niagara Falls! Final maps based on this. My overall favorite! Perfect neons and vibrancy with the roads, water, and greenspace. They look beautiful with the dark land color. Tried to change around the colors from the last one. Meh, it's ok. I think I only like the water color more here but everything else looks worse. I like this one! But the roads, again, should be lighter. I like the mephasis on the water and land though!

Week 7

Exploring projection mapping via the tutorial. Final result (see video below). I wasn't a fan of projection mapping at all. I found it kind of bland almost? I didn't really understand how to communicate data with it. Following the bivariate data tutorial: cycling routes and bike thefts in Oakville. I decided to go with a light to dark blue scheme. The lighter the blue, the earlier in the year the theft occured. Experimenting with different color schemes. This one features a red to green scheme. Red is june, orange is July, yellow is August, and green is September; representing the hot early summer months and cooler late summer months. Changed size and opactiy of the dots. More experimentation of these in the next few images. Smaller dots, same opacity. I didn't like this setup because the dots get lost in the cycling routes. Made the dots a bit larger, but still didn't like how they blended in with the routes. Increased size and opacity. Liked this more for the visibility. Maintained size, but lowered opacity a little. This was my final choice for the dots. Cycling routes, proposed and existing. Started with this blue and green scheme. Changed color scheme to yellow and green. Used them since yellow has the feeling of unsureness and caution, while green has the feeling of safety and go-ahead. Changed line thickness. Final design. Bivariate map tutorial part 2, coyote sightings, encounters, and approaching. This is how the initial map looked. Changed the color scheme to blue, purple, and red. Blue is sightings, purple is approachings, and red is encounters. Blue represents the most safe interaction, while red represents the most dangerous interaction, purple represents more danger, and red represents the most danger. Removed the outlines around the dots. Changed sizes and kept opacity. Changed colors slightly. Changed sizes but kept everything else. Final design. Laser cutting tutorial. Decided on the Qazaq flag as my design subject. Kept the Sheridan IXD logo because I liked it and wanted a control. File preparation. Laser cutting. Lilith, Genevieve, and I decided to share one piece of wood. More process photos of the laser cutting. The Qazaq flag is finished getting lasered! The final product of the Qazaq flag phone stand, unconstructed. Sheridan IXD and Qazaq flag phone stand face pieces side by side. I wish I put the Qazaq design lower down on the wood face. Qazaq flag phone stand constructed! Sheridan IXD phone stand constructed!

Spatial Workshop 1

The Mosaic Wall near the Annie Smith building. Despite the photo being taken in natural light, it's still quite dim. The Mosaic's corridor is rarely visited even if students have classes in the area. A study or hang out area in its corridor may increase traffic. Some kind of warm lighting will do well to highlight this artwork more. <a href='https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgbNymZ7vqY' target='_blank'><p>Project Video Link</p></a> The Learning Commons offers a wonderful communal space for group work. However, spaces for independent work are limited. For whatever reason, the study rooms that can be booked are reserved only for group work. Gallaries of student work are displayed along the hallways of the Art Fundamentals hallway. While these displays are great, I'd love to see more seating areas as seen in the J building.

Spatial Workshop 2

To highlight the Mosaic wall by the Annie Smith building, I would remove the canopy above the art piece. On top of this, by adding seating areas, foot traffic near and awareness of the art piece would increase. I also added flowers because they're pretty and add greenery! :D Ideas for solo-work furniture to be implemented in the Learning Commons. I drew the stereotypical partitioned work areas in two different formats. I also drew these pod-like working stations found in the campus library which I really like—they give the isolation needed for independent work without feeling too utilitarian or isolationist (i.e. not just tables with walls). For the art fundies hallway, I drew two examples of seating I'd love to see. The scaling isn't accurate so there's definitely room for more seating when executed in the real world. One feature of the J building I love is the little table setups on the edges of the second floor hall and I wish I saw them around other buildings too, so I added them to this drawing. The other seating is just a normal old bench because they're always in front of plain walls instead of ones with displays.

Project 2

Final Project 2 Design

Bivariate data map, provincially significant employment zones and child care centres in the Peel Region.

My final design illustrates the provincially significant employment zones and child care centres in the Peel Region. Employment zones are represented by a turquoise-y, teal-y color (to avoid confusion with greenspace or water bodies) and child care centres are represented by magenta dots. The Peel Region is delineated with a gray border. The stark borders between the zones and care centres are obvious and illustrate the lack of choice parents might face when choosing child care locations, particularly for those in more rural or less populated areas.
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