OUGD405 - Study Task 02 - Objective Symbols of Subjective Things: Developments

Based on my experimentation with creating objective symbols of subjective things, I put these into context by using them to produce supergraphics and sets of pictograms.
Supergraphics can be defined as a large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colours and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
This supergraphic was based on examples such as the Icone 03 Project in Modena, Italy and designed by Eltono in 2003. The supergraphic uses objective elements as it was created using a modular grid from paper and coloured tape, which has clear references to the Icone Project in that for one piece they used lines of red colour which almost resembles the tape that I used.
I also looked at using my other objective tape experiments to create more supergraphics based on those which are used within buildings to help with wayfindings, such as pointing the way to toilets or certain rooms and areas.

As well as a set of supergraphics, I also produced two sets of pictograms which used ideas of objectivity and my initial experimentations with various mediums and processes.
My first set of pictograms are based on the word 'anxiety' for which I chose an individual letterform which I felt was the most anxious (in this case 'X') and used it's different elements to create symbols. I used these initial symbols to turn into objective pictograms for this subjective word using image trace on illustrator. The first set uses simple monochromatic colours to reflect the feelings of anxiety. The second set continues the use of monochromatic and greyscale colours which are slightly harder to read, however this is another reflection of anxiety clouding the image of reality and having to focus a bit more to understand the image.

The next set of pictograms are based on the subjective word 'obscure', however these again have been made objective through the use of Otl Aicher's 45 degree grid. For these I used some of my experimentations with obscuring the form of a circle using rotation movements on a scanner and took elements of these to create obscure-shaped pictograms. As another development, I made these digitalised on illustrator by cutting away the shape from a background colour. As these were printed, the printer obscuring these even further where the ink was running low by producing sets of uneven lines across the images.