Our studio is going to design a performance place at Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Columbus Circle is one corner of Central Park.

We each chose a totally random aspect of the site to study. I chose money exchange: amounts, rythms, & locations.
After interviewing several "inhabitants" of the site, and observing the goings on there, I determined to use Adobe Illustrator
to represent my findings in a graphical way. I invented symbols to represent the different types of money, and then using
Illustrator's Scatterbrush I had them act in basically the way I had seen money really act on the site.

This is the map that the key produced. The big blue symbols on the Trump Tower are credit card room rentals and the smaller ones are restaurant purchases. The yellowish vertical lines are the subway entrance turnstiles. The fields of money are where actors, sellers, beggars, etc and pedestrians exchange money.

Here is that information based on time. It is probably afternoon, going towards evening, and the yellowish vertical lines are each subway stop, about 5 or 10 minutes. There is a vauge aspect of sectional location in this as well (subway underneath, Trump tower going up...)

Here that is in detail. Everybody likes the way this looks. I thing it is functional, too, but I don't know if that adds to the asthetics of the piece.

Here is where I am at now. I took the program (the elements of the performance pavillion like bathrooms and seating, etc., and made a word graphic for each, then combined them in 8 different ways. Here is one of them. More on this to come...