Research Exercise 2

For this exercise we were to find 3 examples of graphic representation boards that somehow awoke our interest.

I like some of the concepts of this graphic representation board regarding a battery park. What I really find attractive is the spatial relationship between the rendering and the bird-view perspective of the park. The two different kind of graphic representations share the same horizon line which gives a very fluent transition. Transitions are often, for me, one of the hardest things to do properly when creating a board. I like the color manipulation of the tree – from the lively green fitting the rendering to the more serious grey suiting the project summary on the right side. I think the small diagrams in the downward left corner could have been done in a much more elegant way.

 I like the connection between the iconic pictures and the plan view of the project. The black background colors gives a sharp contrast between the light colored pictures and make them “jump” out of the page. The amount of text is quite large but is smoothly fitted on the poster in their natural places next to the bobble shaped images, which make the user wants to view and read afterwards.

This poster has a very nice color scheme. Transition between the big plan view and the block of text is a simple, but effectfull, fading effect. The poster looks very calm and invites the viewer to study it closer. The colors of the plan drawing is melting in to the background leaving mainly the contours of the site visible. This brings out the interesting information of the Brisbane Transportation Centre in a very clear way.

Sources:

#1: http://parametrication.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/board-01.jpg

#2: http://www.archdaily.com/188122/the-mobius-portal-to-the-point-weissmanfredi/portal-point_boards_page_3/

#3: HOK San Francisco: http://www.hoklife.com/tag/san-francisco/