This was probably one of my better university design assignments that I’m happy to share with you. The design brief was to create a series of twelve wildlife pictograms for a fictional Australian wildlife zoo. Every design starts with good understanding of the design brief — in this case, Australian wildlife animals. With a thorough understanding on the design subject, pages of concept sketches were involved at this stage.
The potential sketches were then scanned and then traced. And obviously tweaked as well. Look at the changes between the crocodile pictogram above and the one below. The crocodile above looked a bit too friendly. The final design showed a more aggressive crocodile (which shouts do not touch me; i’m dangerous).
Some animals were much easily recognizable. Some not. The lizard on the top middle above (which bears a slight resemblance to Kermit the frog) is an Australian frilled-neck lizard. Another tough one to identify is the bottom right one — the common tree possum.
These original pictograms from start to finish took several weeks. As you can see above, these pictograms/icons are then incorporated to zoo maps, signs etc.. Just a quick reminder, that the designs above are under copyright laws.So, which animal do you like best?
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The designs looks great!
I like the tortoise, but how come no tail 1 =P
@sharon Thanks. I’m working on some other awesome projects at the moment too. But they are still under wraps. Will blog about it next time.
@yung You have a great eye for detail. The tail was highly debated. And I decided to lose it because it doens’t help you much in identifying what the animal is. It’s a snake-head turtle. Not a tortoise.
Great stuff.
do i see a wombat there?
i dg the croc.
pictograms are heaps fun.
though sometimes i get anal while retracing my sketches…hehe.,