(✎) Independent Project: Phase #2 - The Project

Hey everyone, today I will present you my finished independent project idea for re-designing TTC bus shelter. More descriptions below.

Description

The main idea of this re-design is to add more accessibility to the shelters and make the shelter cleaner and nicer. Speaking about idea, I already have a rough sketch in my mind on what it will look like. 

First thing is the structure, the structure of the bus shelters will be the same, since they fit to the crosswalk and street. However, in some shelters their structures are not extended to the ground. I will extend all the shelters to reach just a little centimeters from the ground to prevent cold wind coming inside in the winter. Second is the bench inside the shelters, they will be the same except the size will be increased for about 0.5 m from the original size to provide more comfort. And the third is all the addition that I will add to the shelters. 

So, the first addition I will add to the shelters is floor. Why floor? Because it makes the shelter look good and helps to maintain the cleanness. Since Canada has a long winter, I will choose the type of floor that can absorbs snow and also the floor that can easily be cleaned because snow always makes things dirty when it melts. The floor also will be painted in colours and every shelter will have its own colour. They will be painted because it makes them look colourful, which in psychological perspective it will have an impact to everyone. 

The second addition I will add to the shelter is a heater and cooling machine. This will give comfort to people waiting for bus in the winter and summer. The machine will be placed underneath the floor, which is below the ground and the air from the machine will circulated throughout the shelter. 

The third addition is an interactive screen on the inside back of the shelter. The interactive screen is meant to provide information about the next bus as well as the information about the whole transit system in case something happens. It also supports multiple screens. So for example, in one screen there will be four screens. One is showing the information on the next bus, one will be showing the information of the transit, one will be showing a news and weather which can be CP24 channel, and one will be showing the important thing in the city right now, whether it is an alert, event, or anything. The screen will be about 32" less or more and will display and HD OLED screen and it will also be a touchscreen screen. The screen will be weatherproof and crackproof to make it last long.  

The last addition is a pair of speakers for radio. It will be placed on the inside front top corner left and right. The power of the radio is placed below the ground like the heater and cooling machine, and the signal will be at the roof protected by a small cage. The radio can be controlled by the public through the screen. However it needs a permission from other people if there are people there, otherwise the radio will always be on a default country's radio which is CBC. 

The purpose of these addition is make the shelter more nicer, friendlier, and better. The interactive screen helps people to find information and the speakers help people to enjoy their wait in the bus shelter so they do not get bored.

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(✎) Visual Identity Project

This is my final design of the visual identity project that we have worked on the past weeks. The main purpose to create a visual identity is to show the public about the uniqueness of each individual. I will also use this new logo throughout my future blog post.

Logo

 

Business Card

 

Envelope

Letterhead

T-Shirt Mockup

             
    Animated Logo

(✎) Independent Project: Phase #1 - Proposal

Independent projects are meant to be done by each of us and create anything what we want as long as there is a meaning, a goal, and a design challenge in each of our project.  For my project I want to suggest an idea to re-design bus shelter, in this case TTC bus shelter.

 

Initial Intention:  

In this proposal I would like to develop an idea to re-build a better TTC bus shelter. My intention is inspired by the issues that I have always experienced every time I go to a TTC bus shelter. For example sometimes I always see litters everywhere in the shelter, which makes it look dirty and really smelly, or sometimes I also see a shelter that  has a spray paint on it due to vandalism, and that makes it look dirty as well, or also the other thing that always makes me uncomfortable is they don't really keep you warm in the winter, because sometimes the wind comes inside the shelter, which makes it cold. That is why I want to develop ideas to overcome these issues. 

   

Aside from the visible issues, some invisible issues might also be existed, like feeling bored or lonely in a bus shelter. Although I have never experienced these issues but I assume some people can get bored if they wait too long or feeling lonely when he/she is the only one in there. My rough idea for these issues is by having an interactive bus shelter, such as adding a swing, an ad that people can interact, a screen that has TV, a speaker with music, video games etc. 

The other reason why I wanted to do this challenge is because I want to be an industrial designer. So this design proposal will help me build my portfolio, which is really beneficial for myself. 

Consequently, with the issues and problems kept in my mind, I want to solve the challenges and create a solution to overcome them by developing a new, cool looking TTC bus shelter through designing. 

Possible Ideas:  

There might be more than one idea, but for now I will just explain in short the main features of the design. 

So, my rough idea is to make the TTC bus shelter an interactive, unique, and cool-looking shelter for the public. I wanted the shelter to not be just a shelter, but I wanted it to be like a small home that people can stay comfortably. 

First of all I wanted to add a floor to the bus shelter because right now it always stays with the sidewalk. The floor can be In any materials, but it has to be white, or other warm colours because I want people to stay comfortably through warm colours. In fact, this is based on a psychological theory that colours impact people's emotion. Hence, colour is good for people. 

The second task is I wanted to add more seats to the shelter. I know, it is not possible if the shelter is too small, however I came up with another idea: create something that can be seated by many people. This idea was inspired from a bus shelter but not in a form of a bus shelter. So what they did is they tried to create a shelter from block of shapes, and they used the surface of the shapes to make people sit on them. Like this: 

The third one is I wanted to add interactive features to the bus shelter, like a small TV screen, a pair of speaker that play radio, or even an interactive screen that can play a simple video game. This will make people less bored. 

The last important thing is I wanted the shelter to have colours, lights, and security camera. So the shelter will not just be cool and unique but it will also be safe because there is a security camera. 

Media: 

Possibly, I want the rough idea to be designed in Illustrator because it is resizable and there is so much freedom in it, after that I may take the result to Photoshop for some retouching, and then finally if there is time I want to render the final design in a 3D software program like Google SketchUp.