Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Visual Communication - proposal for taxonomy

The design of a taxonomy should be straight forward and easy to understand. That is what I aim to do with my taxonomic collection. The structure of the document will make it easy to refer to any particular denotative or connotative mark.

Every item will be denotatively labeled. My aim is to have each page labeled with the identification of the shape that that object made.

If there is a connotative significance in any particular mark within a page (and it is relevant to the project) then that mark will have a special label.

Labeling may be done using one of two methods:
-by hand
-pasted labels


In order to make it easy to refer to any particular mark-making technique or any denotative mark, I well have glossary at the begging of the book which numerically refers to any particular counterpart.

Each page of marks that I have will be pasted to a thicker piece of paper so that the book as a whole is flat and sturdy. It will then be bound with a spiral-like spine.


2 comments:

  1. Your first paragraph is a good observation and goal of design.

    Where do these "labels" get positioned on the page? divider? mark? Produce some sketches of the layout and review with me in class.

    By hand is quite appropriate since the marks too were made by hand. Also, hand written can be pasted on with labels. Do some research into what kind of labels you will be using and test the hand labeling. Show me these tests in class.

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  2. You have not listed the connotative or denotative attributes here. Post that portion of the assignment as that is an important determiner of what exactly are the labels and the table of contents.

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