set of 8 spices

I keep in mind the unity of the icon. But I create the forms I had aproblem with the thickness . some of the looks different because of the scale. I have to groups of spices. One for countable spices and the other for uncountable spices. For example lemon is countable so I draw one lemon..etc.

In the class critique. I was suggested to have all of the spices in a group. So that I don't loose the unity of them. The critique was helpful and aware me of something that I wasn't consider at.

I chose arabic font that has thick and then parts and at the same time it's has basic handwriting feeling. The latin one also has the same texture.

developing the actual Icons

I take a sample of each kind of the original form of the spices. then I explored the surface and the size of each one of them. I draw sketches of each one in different angels. I started with a very detailed one tell the I reached the simple abstract form. For some spices I cannot get rid of the detailed because the actual form is not easy to recognize. So i have to figure out which details I have to include or take of.






I keep in mind the effect of the arabic calligraphy pen ( thick & thin part) plus the texture of the in ink on the rough surface.

exploring with different materials and techniques

I used the sponge roll and dip it in the ink to have a feeling of smudgy textures. each time i try it in a different way . I played with the negative area. it's make a big different when I cover a part or fill it with ink.

writing on the wood and fabric gives fuzzy edges result.

searching for techniques that being used there

The Souq is very old and it's made of rocks and mud. I looked at the calligraphy and the graphs. I found that they used very typical hand writing. Even the images is very basic.




I did some experiment on the rocks and other material.
The writing they used is very rough textured ans not professional. So you can see rough edges around the letters due to the material they use to write in .






This is arabic calligraphy pen. This type of pen is very common for classic arabic writing.

Phase 3 Process

I decided to do Icons for the spices, because there are no labels or title to describe them. Due of lake communication. It was hard to ask the sellers about the spices, so visual communication is one of our mission as a designer.


Other issue is that most spices is grounded -roasted- So it's not in it's original shape. To come up with an Icons for them. I have to search for the original raw shape of those spices.

Sumac

Can you imagine!! It's kind of fruits
this was surprise for me, because I didn't thought that a spice can be a fruit.