This exercise refers
to understanding of semiotics and my ability to interpret and use sign and
symbols in proper way in order to establish visual communication with audience.
Symbols had been
used from prehistoric ages to nowadays digital era and it is considered as a
first form of written language. Ancient cultures like Egyptian, Sumerian, and
Chinese, used early symbols that were based on pictograms and ideograms and
further developed them into logographic writing system. Chinese still uses
logograms or ideograms to present whole word or concepts while languages such
English uses abstract symbols (letters) to presents sounds known as phonograms.
Pictograms are
still in use nowadays in a form of icons and symbols. Icons look like an object
which being represented like a cup of coffee icon in a board on a highway which
represents cafeteria. On the other hand, symbol is more abstract concept like
red light on a traffic light which represents stopping.
For this
exercise my goal was to explore four concepts: Danger, Movement, Love and Here and, by exploring history and meaning of existing signs and
symbols create my own symbol for at least one concepts.
I used mind
mapping but not just only in a form of
words but also in a form of images which I found very practical and useful at
it helped me to better develop my ideas.
I will start it
with a DANGER
CONCEPT HERE
CONCEPT LOVE
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