Representing the Family

So here's a project from last year, based on representation of information. We joined into a group of 4, and decided to look at how we could represent our level of love for each main member of our family.

It took many days of sketches to work out how to represent certain people. We had to bear in mind that representing something in one way could mean something else in another person's culture.


This is the final key we created, a total of 10 characters.



An extra print out to use as a guide to cut out a prototype on thin acrylic.






This is the final version. It's created as a fan, and each group member is represented using a different colour. We chose to represent our love and closeness to each member by varying the length, i.e the longer it is the closer we are to them. Each person gets 20 characters, one for the father's side and one for the mother's.






The other people in my group included: Hourieh, Sachiko, and Zara.