Pinky Paik Ling - Research

PROJECT TITLE  : VISUAL LANGUAGE -SIGNS IN THE CITY

The purpose of this project is to "reread" and "relearn" the city KL and its visual language.
After reading the brief, we start brainstorming from the point of view of a tourist ( If i'm a tourist, what will i involve , interested ,concentrated and expect on the city? )

Figure 1 Brainstorming from a tourist view

After brainstorming, we more clear and understanding the brief, then we organized a trip to the KL to start our photo shooting research!!!

Firstly, we go to the central market to grab some information of KL and map!

This is the KL map

Here is some flyers and brochures about the KL city .

Historical building with different of style.

At the left hand side is Lebuh Ampang (Little India) and right hand side is petaling street.

Some Chinese temple at KL city.

Famous Indian temple at Petaling Street.

We spent a lot of time in the city looking at small differences in a group of similar objects ( subject matter).

Here is the photo of the similar things that readily available in the KL city habit.

PHONE BOOTH

Phone Booth around KL city ( Different style and shape)

This is the the details of each public phone, as you can see, there are differences between each others. ( the arrangement, layout, the info that paste on it, even the shape of the button)

FRUITS

Local fruit

LIGHTING

Lantern lamp that is combining and mixing up different colour of  fabric ( colourful  and  brilliant)

Chinese culture ( Lantern of Chinese full with the elegant feel)

Modern lamp ( including the shinning disco ball and some others ornate and luxury lamp)

Outdoor lamp posts

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Different kind of public transport around KL city

CULTURE

Chinese culture ( including painting, costume, lamp and Chinese "mamak")

Malay and Indian culture ( their symbol, flower and fretwork)

Foreign culture 

Others foreign & local culture

GRAFFITI

Some graffiti around the wall Of city

But somehow that is illegal, but some of them art are try to bringing out some meaning

This kind of graffiti can categories as vandalism, its totally illegal

Some of them are art, its nice!!!

This is only the one graffiti place that are attracted us, its beside a long river, and all the designer / artist can make their art at there.

All the designer/ artist express their feeling and talent on there. It improve the image of the city very much!!!

SIGNBOARD

Signboard all around the KL city

Finally, after discussion, we choose GRAFFITI as our subject matter for this project.

• Our photo shooting research will never end here, we will still continue going on to take more photo to come out with more idea!!!