object exploration and representations

1: a black and white continuous tone photograph of the object
2: scan of a full-tonal value rendering in pencil on white paper
3: scan of rendered highlight (white) and shadow (black) on midtone (gray) paper
4: solid black and white reductive representation drawn in vector-based application
5: an icon-like hyper-reductive representation drawn in vector-based application

compositions with type

1: solid black and white composition combining type and object to communicate
one aspect of the object, and in which type is the hierarchical focal point 

2: the same as 1, above, but with the object as the hierarchical focal point,
communicating the same or another aspect of the object
compositions in shades of black and in colors:

compositions with type and with color

1: composition in three solid shades of black (three percentages of black from
1% to 100% density—no transparencies) and with no type, communicating the
same or yet another aspect of the object as above
2: composition in three solid colors other than black and with no type,

communicating the same or yet another aspect of the object

interpretive diagrammatic panel

diagram how the object normally functions