Tuesday, March 31, 2009

VisCom: Paper graph


The paper prototype. There are two main topics- History and Entertainment. Within history and entertainment, the mini-topics are divided into vertical columns. At the top is the title of the mini-topic, below that are the icons. The icons represent something about the mini-topic. The Saw represents danger, the handcuffs represent an escape artist act, etc. 
 This is the key that illustrates what each icon is representing in the paper graph. 
This illustrates how the icons will appear, as well as shows examples of how each icon relates to each mini-topic. 
This image shows how ideas will be connected. The lines leading from history represent each mini-topic in it's relation to history. From there, each mini-topic relates to several other mini-topics and those are shown with color coded lines. 

It is my goal to make things as clear as possible. I want to make sure each topic is represented clearly and that each relationship is also show. 

I felt like history and entertainment were the two most relevant topics to my original icon set. History- My icons were meant to portray the serious side of a Magic Act and my original color pallet meant to show the aged qualities, hinting at the past of magic. Entertainment- should speak for itself. Magicians preform for audiences. Books have been written about magicians and magic acts (another source of entertainment), circuses (which also use trained animals for an audience as a source of entertainment) is also related. 

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