Project rationale: This is part of my project of MA in Graphic - TopicsExpress

Project rationale: This is part of my project of MA in Graphic Design and Typography. I have lived in Ely for almost two years and have had interesting experience while walking around. It happened quite often that I was asked the route to the river and this suggested the opportunity and possible need for a visual signage. So I am proposing to design a visual creative interpretation of historic facts about Ely and create graphics, which would incorporate words/text in order to achieve the characteristics similar to ‘storytelling’ where a person as a reader would be carried along to the destination (river). All the elements then would be inset either on the path or/and on the few walls of buildings. I believe in addition to written inserts of the history (words, sentences) and graphic representation of those (icons, drawn elements, marks) an additional contribution of content (words, sentences, short stories) from community of Ely would allow to achieve the ‘sense of place’ outlined in the title. Community then almost literary will become part of built environment as the words, sentences or/and parts of story would be inset for the future generations. It is very important that as a designer I would like to represent not only historic facts but also the present community that make Ely so distinct and wonderful cultural city. Important Note: At the moment it is simulative project that if Ely community would like to see realised could be considered to become reality.