I started a project the other week which asked us to tell a given story or fairytale using a pictorial/visual language. The story I was given was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. As the story is about two sides, good and bad, I decided to look at the city of Edinburgh. It is well known that Edinburgh has two distinct sides - the new town and popular tourist areas and the underbelly, dark old town side. As i began to research I was intrigued that this one city has such distinct difference. I decided to use tourist maps as my method of visual communication as i thought it would be a good way to show several things in a city over a given area. I decided I would have one map with the attractions that people would like to visit in Edinburgh mainly at day time, and another on the underside of the map showing the more seedy places that are likely to be visited at night (Jekyll turned into Hyde and got involved in bad behaviour at night!) I began trying to find opposites, good and bad, from each other to put on both maps, for example red light areas against 5 start hotels, libraries against x rates magazine stores, tea at Jenners against shots at a cheap club. I thought the best way to represent these things would be to take the widely known public symbols found on current maps and alter them slightly to best represent the given place. I am currently in the process of designing the symbols and maps so i'll keep you updated on the progress :)
While creating the maps I was looking for a good way of finding colour schemes that represent a particular thing (i.e I wanted a 'gothic' colour scheme to use for the underbelly map) and i came across this great website where you can type in a word and it comes up with related colour schemes! It can be found here http://kuler.adobe.com/#
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