Assignment 2- Make Image Talk

Design Process:


After considering several choices (from the Fountain of Wealth to Haw Par Villa (near my house)), I decided to choose Paranakan Museum for this assignment.


I visited the Paranakan Museum in May while hosting a bunch of friends from HongKong Uni around Singapore. The first impression about the museum was how small it looked, more like a big house than a museum in my imagination. The decoration outside was beautiful: not too complicated, but still able to convey a sense of grace and elegance to this cultural site.

I started the process by tracing the photo (1) to create a simpler black and white image(2).
Next, I used the pen tool in illustrator to painstakingly replicate the image of the house (3).





From (3), I start to gradually omit the details, layer by layer.

(4) was created by trimming the curtains.

With (5) the balconies and glass squares on the doors are omitted.


(6) has the top and bottom layers (the decorative balcony on the top, and the slope/stairs at the bottom) trimmed.



(7) no longer shows the lines separating different floors, as well as the embossed rectangular around the windows.

(8)- the last image abandons almost everything but the outermost outlines.




(6) is chosen to develop into the symbol for Paranakan Museum, since at this point the image is free from unnecessary details, while still have features that make it recognizable as the building itself. The complete symbol is (6), with the name "paranakan Museum" added on top, in typeface similar to that of the building logo.