Visual Diary

Theeee most difficult task is here!! Making a VISUAL DIARY !
Imagine making a visual diary on hauz khaz village ! Yes it sounds amazing and so it was. Sketching the ambience, people around us was way too fun! Quick scribbles on our visual diary helped us to notice the environment or the particular object minutely and more precisely.

I started my visual diary with the visual brainstorming of hauz khaz village. Then I included every element that we see in hkv. Starting from Deer Park, The Ruins, Slum Area, the Market Area to Street Vendors and last of all the Vehicles. 

So here's some visuals from my logbook! Hope you like it :)

Product Merchandise Board

In product merchandise board we are supposed to show what all products do we find in Hauz Khas village. First thng that came to our mind was yumyyyy fooood <3 

So we thought of sketching the products such as - food, garments, jewelry, accessories, bags, antiques, home decor, etc. 

Product Board

Our product board is still in process as few sketches are left. Though you can see a pair of shoes and a french fries bucket i.e. things we find in hkv.

Social Culture Board

Social Culture Bord

After visual board we started with the SOCIAL CULTURE BOARD in which we have to show what type of people do we find in Hauz Khas. So while brainstorming we found that we see various kinds of people, like- rich brats coming for shopping and partying, teenagers, hawkers, photographers, artists, slum residents, workers, etc.

After listing all of them we decided to depict them in three different levels. i.e. HIGHER CLASS, MIDDLE CLASS and the LOWER CLASS!

In first level i.e. the higher class people we put pictures and sketches of  the high class rich people, shop and cafe owners, designers and tourists.

In second level i.e. the middle class people we put pictures and sketches of school and college students, workers, guards and residents.

In third level i.e. lower class people we have put pictures of vendors, garbage pickers and slum residents.

We have put the higher class on the upper level and the lower class on the base, as they are somehow neglected socially. 

Visual Culture Board

Visual Culture Board

Visual culture means the ambience of the area, the things we see like- architecture, shops, streets, signs, vehicles, surroundings, etc. SO when we look at HKV we see lots of wires, the fort, colorful streets, boutiques, cafes, lake, deer park, lots of traffic and the village area.

We started with a blank mind. Grinding our mind into how to represent visual board. After few brainstorming and discussions with my group members we end up deciding to show it through symbols. We see dustbins on sides, cafes serving food and liquor, traffic, street vendors, shops, slum, etc. So we drew the symbol for all those and for base we showed the uneven streets. Then we fixed them on a thermocol sheet and made them stand with toothpick. 

HKV As A Whole

When one is in Hauz Khaz village, it sees diversification. Hauz Khaz being an urban village attracts may customers and tourists towards it. When we enter Hauz Khaz village we see jam packed traffic. We see autos and we see porche cars too. We see variety of elements in hauz khas market. 

Traffic on saturday night

Okay! So now the market area. HKV is full of creativeness. We see creative hoardings, the logo of every cafe is amusing and way too creative. Even though the interiors of cafe is breath taking and the music the play can make a person chilled out. Every cafe is made with a theme. For instance, cafe Lights Camera Action is bollywood theme based. Its menu to walls to t-shirts of the waiter, everything has a essence of bollywood.

Cafe Lights Camera Action

A board outside a cafe

Now moving to next element we see in hkv. After cafes people are attracted to the FASHION BOUTIQUES. Hauz Khaz consists of various indian designers showroom selling accessories, garments, bags and antiques too. A we know HKV is known as a 'FASHION HUB'! 

Ogaan - A designer store

We even see graffiti's on the wall. BIG HUGE COOOOOOL GRAFFITI'S <3 

One at the backside of a lane

Behind the shining street and glamorous world resides a village. Not the colorful street but 'tooti' streets. Houses made of muds, wood logs and tin sheets. The ambience was totally different than the market area. People busy in errands not caring about what's happening in market. They live in their own world. While interviewing few, we came to know that the residents do face some problems. Like the sanitation problem, lack of water, hygiene and high rents. But the best part children their go to schools. They are well educated and they can speak english too. Here are few glimpse of the SLUM AREA! 

Houses in slum area

A villager