Intangible Symbol

Many symbols are used today to represent sound as music is such a big part of the world. Technology has developed resulting in the creation of mp3 players, ipods, stereos etc.

As musical technology has substantially grown it has created a world wide recognition among symbols associated with music and stereo systems such as fast forward, stop, pause, rewind etc.

Sound Symbol

This is my sound symbol. I wanted to show a sound like an echo and therefore i came up with this concept. I have used these rounded shapes to represent the sound spreading across space or echoing through space.

I used this rounded shape to show a soft sound where as if the sound was harsh or loud i would use a pointed shape to represent the sound.

Pixel Portraits

These are my pixel portraits. I found them extremely challenging at first, however after i while i got the hang of it and found this topic quite fun!

Green Lungs Poster

This is my Green Space poster. I wanted to keep it quite simple and use colours that were associated with this topic such as various shades of green. I also used words such as 'save' to give off an emotive feel to show people that we need their help.

I didn't put too much information on the poster as i didn't want to crowd the page, and therefore make it more interesting for people to engage with and not through lots of information at them - as this can be quite intimidating and therefore put people of reading it.

Rebus

BACK TO SQAURE ONE.

The term rebus refers to the use of a pictogram to represent a syllabic sound. This adapts pictograms into phonograms. A precursor to the development of the alphabet, this process represents one of the most important developments of writing.

Green Lungs

This is our final Green Lungs Logo, as we feel it captures the lack of green space showing the grey sections as buildings and the green section as the green space. We wanted to give this symbol an organic feel which has been achieved with the rounded edges. The green colour is also very bright, demonstrating that the environment can brighten your life and create better health.

Road Signs

I found this exercise quite challenging, as it is extremely hard to show something with just a symbol - that everyone can recognise.

I choose to use a traffic light to symbolise the red light district. It is a very simple idea, however isn't straight to the point and therefore people may be confused as to what it means.

For the soccer pitch, i simply created a soccer goal and a ball. I think this symbol would work quite well.

For the low gravity area, i showed lots of people floating! - Not sure how well it would work...

I choose to draw some low flying birds - to be very literal with this symbol.

For the fun run, i drew someone running in a 'fun' way!

I think my cinema symbol is the best one. It's a world recognised and clearly demonstrates a cinema.

For the fashion shop i drew a simple dress - it's not completely obvious but it does get the point across.

For wet paint i showed a tear drop to represent that it's wet and a paint brush to show paint. I think symbol is also quite successful as it's simple and easy to understand.

And finally for the big surf symbol i created some large waves. Again this symbol is very simple and however i'm not sure the meaning is completely clear.

Humpty Dumpty Excercise

In this exercise we used certain symbols (that we had been given) to represent the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. It was quite challenging to find something to represent each phrase, but also fun to find a way to symbolise Humpty Dumpty in a modern way.

Tribal Symbol

This was the process in which we took, to come up with our final logo. We wanted to base our logo around a triangle shape as this shape looks similar to the letter A - representing all of our names. We also wanted to represent equality so we decided to include three triangles, each represent one of us.

We decided to use this triangle to represent our tribe, and added the colour blue as we feel it is very it is a neutral, uni-sex colour that is positive and links in with our equality theme.

done in class :)

CLASS EXERCISE 2: Tribal work.


As a team, we felt that through this excerices equality was very important to us therefore we decided to base our logo around this. Our name is A-Teen, as we are all 18 and all of our names begin with the letter A.

CLASS EXERCISE 1

Flower/Plant

I didn't find creating a flower out of these shapes too difficult. I used triangular shapes to represent the petals, and as there was only one square I decided to use that for the stamen (middle part of flower).

Face

For the face, I decided to create hair, as well as facial features. I used the two larger triangles for the hair, two small triangles for the eyes, a square for the nose and another large triangle for the mouth.

Action Man

To create an action man I wanted to make something that looked like it was fighting. In order to do this I made his arms look as though he was ready to fight! I think this 'action man' looks like a karate fighter :)

Animal

For my animal I decided to make a turtle. I used both triangles to create the body, and the smaller triangles for the arms and legs, and a square for the head.

Appliance

I decided to make a kettle for my appliance as with the shapes we were given I felt this would be the easiest thing to create. I made the body from two large triangles, a lid from two smaller triangles, a handle from another small triangle and the stout from a square and a parallelogram.

SUMMARY OF TASK

I found this task really fun, and really enjoyed creating all the different shapes into specific things. I think it's a great way to create a logo by using simple, solid shapes.