Pictograms, icons and Signs
Our second session of visual language this term was about instructional design and using simple visual signs and icons to inform or narrate a series of events.
Our task was to create a sequence of events as a narrative, then select 10-12 key points of the narrative, then narrow it down again to 6-8 concise/detailed bullet points which we would then visualize as pictograms.
I thought this would be quite a simple task but i turned out i was wrong...
Firstly i started over drawing my images which turned into illustrations instead of simple icons. The idea, is it should work regardless of scale. However i got the hang of it toward the end of the session and would like to finish off my narrative, or start over again after looking at some books.
Writing from 30.3.09 - again more of this has been done. I have done a nice little step by step narrative of how to make a cup of tea. I didn't challenge myself in the drawing to be honest but i have grasped the idea of not having to draw as an illustration, framing, cropping, editing and modifying are really important when doing iconography and symbolism.
In the session before this we were each given a word. Mine was 'Briefcase'. The brief was to create 30 thumbnail ideas considering how we could represent a 'briefcase' without using anything which didn't transcend languages; i.e. type or words, as they cannot be understood around the world.
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