For this weeks Digital Narrative lesson, we had to create a map similar to those of Richard Long. The maps needed to show information (if you could understand it) but still appear a piece of art on its own
I chose to take the tube/subway maps for different countries and removed all the station names. You are left with a series of abstract lines and colours creating an aesthetic pattern that roughly geomaps the geography of each city the tube lines represent. It is nice to see this clear difference between them all
QR Codes
Using QR Codes, we had to create a narrative map that could be followed along and tells a story. I chose to create a Mr Men murder mystery, where the scanned QR codes would redirect you to a webpage with an image.
Each image gives you a clue (a longitude and latitude) and tells you where the next clue is located.
Once you have all 10 clues, you can input them into google maps and using the line tool, you can match the points dot to dot and uncover which Mr Men is the killer.
All QR Codes to story READING LEFT TO RIGHT (CLICK FOR BETTER IMAGE)
