Three Trip Design

When confronted with the question of how to create a unique map that documented three trips (from my home in Boston to my hometown, overseas, and class), emphasizing timing and activity, I employed gridded alignment, clear icons, and relationships between all three trips to accomplish this task

final product & Strategy

In this exercise, I challenged myself to demonstrate how I got somewhere and what I did during this time, without using a physical landscape or mapped path to do so. I used alignment to organize my layout, pushing myself to reconsider what representations of travel could look like.
Reasoning
Relation and alignment
I split each trip into hours/minutes, sorting activities into the hour span that it occurred for each trip. This helped me solve the issue of layout in this map, creating a systematic organization and method of 'reading' each trip that was consistent throughout
Specificity
Using a branching motif, I split certain icons into multiple activities in instances where I remained at one location but did multiple things. I also labeled icons that signified something like eating to be more specific on what it was.
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