At first i looked at different types of maps, maps in maths, scientific maps, theme park maps, directional maps etc. i discovered each type of map has it own way to represent something and to tell us something in many different ways, for example in a theme park map, people find their through not by looking what road they are on but where the attractions are.
i was in Hong Kong in Christmas so i wanted to show something based on that, my first idea was based on a very easy straight forward map which indicate how many minutes the walk is by colour - i came up with this idea as the roads and streets in HK was very confusing and there were so many of them, so by telling people how long the walk is they can judge their direction more easily.
Then i tried something different,the idea was a map to show HK's economy more leaning towards the mathematical idea of a map. using colour again to show the positive or the negativeness of the economy.
I wanted to show more than 1 place, and soon developed my idea to show the ratio between continents. the initial idea was to show them in term of human size eg the height of them can represent the size of the country and the fatness of the human can represent ration. But during the development, i thought just plain squares is even more effective because the final piece looks overly simple but yet rather meaningful. it is not confusing and very straight forward, because its so simple but attractive it grabs readers attention.
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