A book talks about a way can make people feel comfortable

"The Fragrant Mind -- Aromatherapy for Personality Mind, Mood and Emotion, I bought this book because i am sure fragrant thing has big relationship of our mind. But how fragrant influence our mind? this flowers in the book tells us answers. 

 "Pathway to the mind
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have the sense of mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science."

by ALBERT EINSTEIN

A happiness survey

A happiness survey in the UK in 2012 illustrated that people living in built-up or former industrial areas, such as South Wales, the West Midlands or London, tended to be less happy, while rural areas, such as Orkney and Shetland, and Rutland, in the East Midlands, were the happiest. This report made me feel curious of what reasons makes people less happiness and what can a designer do to help people feel more happiness.

Recently, I did a questionnaire survey of 20 people live in London in different ages, different jobs and different race.  The result surprised me that there are 10 people said their satisfaction of life only 40%-60%.

                            

Everyone has their standerd of happy life and how many people make sure they are living in a happy life? and how can we live in a happy way?

I am thinking about maybe as a graphic designer can do something to improve people's view of happiness. 

My project:My Flower map of London

I love drawing, i love flower and i love drawing flower, so why not to draw a map with flower. So i began to drawing my flower map for my living city--London.

Flower map London is my personal view of London and it also can be my experience in London, because when the beginning of coming here, i really feel lost, London it's a city where is running quite fast, busy, fashion and massive information every day. i feel excited of studying here but i feel worry too. i want organized well my life but at most times i do not know what i need to learn, what it is good one to visit in this vary exhibitions city. 

I know i need to work hard and i need to do my best to absorb  energy. One day, i have a idea is i seem like a honey who is harding working and who love flower... So, at that time i decide to draw a flower map.

Mapping design research 3

Hand-- Drawn Maps of London: Super-- detailed City

1, Abi Daker

2, David Ryan Robinson " Personal street view"

3, Matthew Picton

                                        

Mapping design research 2

Mapping Muswell: An Inricate Paper Collage By Anya Beaumont

A 3D Collage map designed by Anya Beaumont. She spent months crafting this exquisite collage of Muswell Hill. It’s pieced together from dozens of sheets of paper, donated from various sectors of the local community, then intricately cut by Anya and assembled into a projection map of the area.This incredible piece is currently on show at Muswell Hill Library on indefinite loan.

In my opinion, mapping is a good narrative way and it can be designed by vary forms. Different people have they own feeling and responds of a place, so they have their own mental maps.

 Mapping Muswell is the first collage map i have saw untile now. Of course, i like this details and interesting map as it is different from the ordinary graphic mappings. It can be seeing different from different angles so its kind of a real 3D city map which we are living. I think this is real challenge and it really give the audiences fun and inspirations, like me, it gives me some ideas which i can design my flower map of London in a 3D form. 

Mapping design research 1

An exquisite details mapping designer --- Stephen Walter

I am fascinated in details drawing and designs and i was really exciting when i saw Stephen Walter's hand drawing maps.

The flowing three maps are the parts of Stephen Walter's Liverpool map. I like it because the map designed by words and sentences and very details and clear even it massive. People can recognize the place by the words direction. So, it is not only a useful map but is special and art work.

And this map is created by the Logos in the uk , i don't whether the logos represent the  

place in the real direction. but i like this idea. 

"Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macro cossoms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.

He continues to use a range of media including drawing, photography, digital, screen-printing, collage and painting, and recently the applying of these onto objects.

Born 1975. Currently Lives and Works in Berlin & London"

How does text and image contribute and affect the communication?

How text and image work in communication? This is a key point always remained me when i did my design work, but i still not clear of it. Today i have read something about Ferdinand de Saussure  who was a Swiss linguist, Based on theories of Ferdinand de Saussure I will analyse how the message communicate with the receiver. The Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) has explored the ideal about how the message created by sign influence the communication. 

 In Saussure’s theory holds that linguistic signs are composed of the arbitrary combination of sound patterns and concepts. It is concrete dimension the concept or signified is its abstract side while the signifier and the signified can be separated, analytical purposes. In other words the sign is composed of two parts one is the physical existence and the other one is the mental concept. The main difference of the communication is at the mental concept. Due to the different culture, environment, background and mood it will change the result of the message.

People with different culture have different understanding of same signs and symbols. For example based on the environment and culture, white as a color represent different things thus it’s outcome of the communication will be different.

                                     

In China white color represents death, thus people wear white color clothes in funerals.In their mind white color is related to something sad. The sad feeling which white color reflects is the mental concept of the Asians.

However, in the Western society white as a color is a symbol of pureness, it has been widely used in weddings and celebrations. Western people have connected it with happiness.