Study Task 02

For this task we had to create marks to represent two words from a list, I chose the words escape and irritant.

 For the word escape I focused on an 'escape route' and drew that out using zig zag lines as i think it represents this sense of urgency that comes with escaping from somewhere. I also wanted to represent an escape door using a line to represent a gap that shows the exit as well as a diagonal line to represent a door.

 I then did some experiments on the photocopier and accidentally achieved this grey background however I think it looks a bit like a birds eye view of someone escaping and the root they took displayed on the floor plan of a building.

Looking further into the work escape i looked at something without an escape/ exit which is in the case a circle. I then tried to add an escape route with the use of a line

This was then translated through collage where I also sliced up the circle to create a line between it which subtly refers to Hoffman's idea of white space creating a line.

I took this idea and overlapped both the circle outline and the cut outs to create another collage, I then overlapped this on the photocopier to make a confusing and difficult to read escape route/ map which is not what you would want when rushing to escape from somewhere.

  These marks represent the word irritation, I focused on how an irritation warning sign is usually a cross and adapted this. I divided the cross into 4 lines and used these four lines to develop new designs.

 I then adapted these into collages to add more depth and texture to them. To create the black paper I coloured in a sheet of tracing paper with a felt tip, it was running out at the time and created nice grey stripes through it which looks a bit like a black and white photograph.







This relates to what Frutiger says about arrows and them only working vertically and horizontally.