shape development

 

From our talk about what we're going to do in terms of the symbol, we decided to go with combining two of my initial ideas. the circle one was against denser and denser the worse the areas and also the wave one. So I started doing some shapes and overlaying them and seeing how they looked both with outlined and low opacity overlap. We talked about what it looked like and we kind of come to the conclusion that it looked virus ask that's not something we really want to do. So I tested out some karma shapes as well but just didn't look quite right. So we went back to the initial ideas of justice doing simple circles and overlaying them. This would also be a lot easier to animate so it'll be easy to get done by Thursday. 

We were chatting about of creating and colour palette and we were talking bout possibly using the colours that are used in measuring air pollution but it all came to send consensus that is that people don't really know of it and it's not that important to us more important to illustrate how it would be for a normal person to understand it. So we wanted to go with a blue tone beacuse the sky is blue and also O 3 often illustrated by using blue. The air gets more of a gray tone when it is worse pollutes so we went with the blue to grey scheme. The first colour scheme was a bit too similar so I tested one with more contrast and we decided to go with that one. 

Elinor then did some quick ideas for circles overlapping initially we decided to do the circles instead of the wavy circles. 

I did some a couple tests with the colours one keeping the last colour and then overlapping the new colour in the color scheme on top of it and one we're just all the circles on the same colour for each stage, we decided to go with the former one as it looked cleaner and more simple it would also not distract from the numbering that we're going to put inside of it.