Final pictograms

After looking at Kendrick Kidd I chose to pursue the emblem style. Experimenting with a cleaner style of illustration as well as a sketchier style led me to decide to use a mix of the two drawing styles. The finished result is a mix of modern style symbols, with added detail in the form of thinner lines to add shade and herald back to the sketchy style of Victorian 
illustration.

Final Pictograms:

For each set of pictograms, I wanted to explore more than one image for each icon - varying my ideas from obvious to slightly out there. I also looked at the era representation of  the symbols - I wanted to avoid using speakers or headphones to represent music for the City Varieties pictograms for example as  they were not invented in that period. For my final pictograms I chose to use a dark red colour. Looking at colour theory inspired me to use red as it is attention grabbing, making it more likely for people to spot it and the boldness of it may encourage people to follow the system onwards. 

For my directional cues I initally created pointed arrow heads but when coupled with my pictograms, the two looked mismatched against eachother. I instead chose to use 2 quarter circles placed next to eachother. The gap between them varies with the distance from each sign to the location represented.