Second meeting

Today's meeting was great!

We all showed each other what we'd done. I'd looked into more examples of art on the road:

Everyone loved the one from Holland as it was cute but not the direction we are thinking of heading.

Irina told us about her research into the history of Cuba Street which was fascinating - the reason it is named Cuba Street is because there was a boat called the Cuba that sailed the cook strait and was one of the first settler boats of the area.

We all thought this was really interesting and would be great to somewhat share.

Then Calvin showed us some of the things he'd found and I was completely taken with one image in particular:

This just popped off the road so well and was so inviting. It also looked like it worked - which looked like it was helped by it's placement. It ran directly across the road in conjunction with the traffic lights.

I came up with the idea of using this example as our starting point and replacing the patterns they had used with boat patterns to reference the history of Cuba Street, and also add type into some of the squares. We would have to use simple big letters though as we don't want people stopping on the road to read things!

As we were talking I started thinking about how there are two lots of traffic lights and how we could make this work with two sets - would we do two of them? Ideally not as they'd lose impact. Could we remove one of the sets of lights and create an angled version so that it directs pedestrians to cross safely to one side? We drew up some shapes/sketches in my book to try and visualise it for the whole team:

I also mocked something up on my computer really quickly to try and get my idea across:

 


We decided to each work on different elements, Irina had picked out some beautiful colours and generated a kind of paddle pattern so we got her to create a colour sheet for us all to work off, and Celia and I started working on patterns whilst Joyce and Calvin thought more about the type.

My first pattern is a sail pattern:

By this time we decided to split up and continue working separately on patterns etc and come together again before next Wednesday to make sure we had something substantial and refined for our presentation.