Abu Hammour Phase 3

As part of how to best represent my problem of people being hit by cars if they want to read signs.
I took a pictures from 300^o and began to look for which angles best represents the problem and began tracing them to abstract them more and more to see which elements are most important.

Again I apologize for not having pictures,Blogger is not being very helpful (as usual).

icon: problem 1, cutting marks on table

For the problem of having cutting marks on table, i initially started by looking at some of the photographs which i used in the previous phase. And i discovered that the Exacto knife is very commonly used on the tables without using the cutting mat. Hence i started by first examining the exacto knife..but since exacto knife on its own just being a tool doesnt convey much, for example it cud just refer to as not to cut with this . Hence i then took the marks on the table n traced them. Then i felt that since it is still not clear, so i traced the actual photograph in which the blade is being used on the table.
Since my mood board was based on preciseness and square rectangular form, i have tried to simplify my icons and make it simple geometrical kind.
Since my icons says :not to use the cutting knife on the table as it creates marks, i will have a stroke from left top to bottom right which means NO.
I also tried abstracting it with not being very literal by just showing the exacto knife the cutting marks and the circular part which is part of the furniture, the tables

Fruit and Vegetable Market, phase 3

After completing phase 2 the problems I needed to solve in the market were clear. I went back to the market once more and started taking as a many images as possible of the problems, the images I took included: wide shots, close up shots to show detail and I took as many different angles and perspectives as possible of the problems.

The fist problem I worked on was the wet floors in the market. I want a sign to tell people to be aware of the wet floors and to try and avoid walking over them.
I made many sketches some showing a figure slipping, some showing just a close up of the feet of the figure slipping and some showing a figure walking around the wet floor to avoid it.

I decided to take my sketches of the full figure slipping further into development:

After this detailed sketch I decided to see how the image would communicate if I simplified it:
I felt the above simplified sketch was not as effective as the first detailed sketch so I went back to it and developed it a little further. I added more detail, the wet floor under the figures feet and the motion marks by one of the figures feet to show that it is moving:After that I started experimenting with filling in the positive and negative spaces and balancing out the image: