Thursday, September 10, 2009

Assignment 2 : Abstraction Levels

Blogger has been down for the longest time, and it is getting on my nerves!

Anyway, for the second assignment, we are required to draw 5 abstraction levels of various destinations, and for me, the newly-open Ion Orchard came to mind when they required us to take a location in Singapore.

Here's a shot of Ion Orchard @ night.


I love how the Ions resemble, or rather, reminds me of molecue bonds, and I thought it'd be very interesting to actually have Ion Orchard logo modeled after part of the structure.

If you look closely, the bulbs resemble that of the O in O-O bonds, and it the structure has very defined lines that shows the link between the two molecues.

I just thought this structure is pretty significant and does represent Singapore's step forward to becoming a highly-connected, tech-savvy country.


Abstraction Level 1: I cropped out part of the photo and made in black and white.


Abstraction Level 2: I removed all the 'noise' such as the logos between the molecue bonds - don't you think it looks much neater?


Abstraction Level 3: I further cropped it, showing the very defined individual molecue bonds.



Abstraction Level 4 : I entirely forgot that we were supposed to use black and white only, but I followed the colour of the light bulbs and eventually came to..

Abstraction Level 5: And I added "ION ORCHARD" beside the self-created logo.

[Edit] My tutorial mates could recognise they resemble that of molecues, but however, they feel that it is too abstract, and as a creator myself, I need someone to point out my mistakes.

One of them suggested that I should outline the entire shopping centre if I want to retain the "molecues", and another said I could possibly take a shot of the entrance photo to the MRT.

I shall go take this weekend!

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