Screenshots of the progress of my map: I always wanted to just show a section of Wellington instead of the whole Wellington region and I thought that the waterfront was recognisable enough to be able to locate the section of the map in its context. I messed around a lot with light and dark, different colours and different ways of making each street recognisable and distinguishable from the others.
My symbols went through a couple iterations, I had the idea to use a straight line for boring, wavy line for fun and squiggly line for exciting but it was a bit too vague and didn't look quite right for the key. Originally I was going to use the burger and mannequin together as one section showing the types of shopping available at each destination, but then separated them into two categories showing the quality of each type of shopping on each street. I also varied the colours of the symbols to match each spread (dark green for Cuba, navy blue for Lambton) because I felt it made them look a bit less harsh.
These are my final symbols underneath the symbols from the noun project that I based them on. I added a shine to every symbol to make them a bit more my own and I thought they looked a bit lighter and cohesive with the aesthetic of my whole brochure.
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