Assignment 2. March 6, 2008
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For this week’s assignment, we were required to distill a chosen object through 5 stages of Abstraction. Well, if you ask me, it ain’t hard for me to decide what object to distill since I’m an avid CAR lover…..
Ta-dah! The MINI COOPER!
Can you understand the different degrees of abstraction I was trying to show above? Apparently I wasn’t too clear in conveying some of my ideas here… From a photographic representation it slowly evolves into an icon, i.e. the ”cartoon” sketch of a cooper, then to the Tachnometer, and lastly a parking sign. (a symbolic sign)
I received alot of constructive feedback on my abstraction, and the most common one was that my Abstraction was abit too abrupt, esp. the part where the “Cartoon car (no.3) ” is succeeded by a “Tachometer”. Many recommended that I add something in between so that this “transition would not be too abrupt.
Secondly, many couldn’t understand the meaning of a “Parking Sign” and how it could be related to the mini cooper. I must admit this association was abit far-fetched but initially I intended to use it as a “symbolic sign” i.e. a symbol we understand by convention. To me such road signs like this would be second nature to any driver, but yes, on hindsight, it would be more appropriate only if I were doing on a generic theme like “Cars”, not a Mini Cooper.. which would be too specific.
Other comments:
-end abstraction at the 4th pic, which is the coloured tachometer, cuz the 5th pic actualli could be mistaken for a common clock/stopwatch
-remove the last “Parking sign”.. cuz others may not understand its significance if not for the previous 4 pics.
-be more consistent in the abstraction, don’t jump from one stage to another.
Okayys! With the above comments in mind, I made my final changes to Assignment 2. No more Parking sign, no more “clock-like” Tachometers! Instead, I added a Dashboard in between the “cartoon” icon of the MINI and the tachometer to make the transition more obvious! I’ve chosen no. 4 as the symbol Im gonna develop:
TELL ME WHAT you think! 
