Concept
NUS isn't a small campus; it's even harder to navigatearound school when you're a freshman. I was thinking what kind of sign was lacking around my faculty and I recalled one encounter where I had dash through the rain towards the shuttle bus stop because I didn't bring along an umbrella. What was worse, I was carrying my laptop with me, and no, the cover was not waterproof. So I concluded it would be good to know where to buy an umbrella when I needed it.
Abstract 1 to 2 is simply my perception of the umbrella machine in 3D and 2D respectively. The transformation from 2 to 3 is more apparent as I represented the words "buy umbrella here" with the silhouette of an umbrella. Stages 3 to 4 had the money slots removed, and replaced by a dollar note. The last abstraction would the simplest stage of all, with the dollar sign on the umbrella itself.
Feedback
Abstraction process is fine, but the last abstraction needed some alteration. Add a tip to make the umbrella look more like itself. Change the dollar note to a coin. Insert a coin slot. Create more curves for the umbrella.
After some thoughts from the class & the tutor, I've just touched up a bit on my work.
Features changed:
- Added a tip atop the umbrella
- Removed the dollar note and embedded the $ sign on the umbrella.
