Map Development

Earlier today I was experimenting with a few concepts for my map, and I picked out some ways on how to improve them. Below, I have attached a photo of my more developed map, and what changes I have made to it and why.

Above I have included a JPEG image of my latest map design, which is the one I will show tomorrow in our final critique. I am really happy with how this is looking actually, and feel like the developments made from my initial concepts have been quite strong and successful. So I reversed the pages over, as I had suggested I would, so that the text is placed in the same grid structure as it is on the other spreads. By flipping the pages around, I was able to get the creamy coloured map to blend into the background colour, without having the big dark blue divide in between the text and the map. This way it is a lot more fluent and effective, leaving the overall layout looking a lot more balanced. I also grabbed more of the map of Wellington, and extended the contours of hills to above the text, to create more movement and visual flow throughout the page. Some texture has also been added into the dark blue area (resembling the sea) and also into the land, mainly above the text. The texture helps to give the image a bit more depth and feel to it, rather than being flat and boring.

I will take this map, along with my other spreads, to class tomorrow for the final critique. I will aim to get as much feedback as possible from the teachers, as well as ask a few peers for some feedback on the map (since we had class critiques on all of the other spreads earlier today, and I hadn't created a map at this point). I'm really looking forward to this final week, and especially with how I have been managing my time so far, I am hoping to have this finished to an extremely high standard with enough time to comfortably get it outputted. I am aiming to have it printed by as soon as possible. My book work is also up to date, so all that I will need to do by next week will be the final few blog posts on how the outputting went, along with a rationale.