NM2208♥

10 September 2009

10:13 PM

Assignment 2: Places of Interest (Boat Quay) - Final

The abstraction begins with doing a replication of the boat traveling before the buildings and shophouses surrounding the river. The abstraction continues to the next level, as the details within the windows and building are removed, and the iconic boat is left without the details of its parts as well.

In the next step of the abstraction, only the foreground with the shophouses are left, and the boat is further stripped of its details, only retaining the iconic eye at the front of the boat and its shelter. The other obvious detail which is left till the end is the tyre in front, and therefore at the end of the abstraction process, i chose to leave only the circle in front of the boat, which may not be recognizable anymore. Therefore the chosen design is the fourth one, with the boat still having its shelter thus allowing others to recognize it if it is placed on a sign to indicate directions.

For the final draft for this assignment, I added more details to the first abstraction stage. Consequently, it made the abstraction process too drastic from the first to the second stage. I thus created another stage in-between to solve the problem and took out the last stage as a result. Also, I changed the fourth stage (which became the last stage) by removing the 'shelter' to make it more abstract.

Chosen Abstraction