Tactics of Manipulation

There was an accident in a station in Korea, As a train arrived in the station an older man made a falls step and fell down between the train and the platform. He was not able to get out of from the gap him self. All of sudden, a guy tried to push the train then few more people helped. In the end everyone on the train got out to push together saving the old man and he was safely rescued.     

Archetype Symbols

The Haitai is a mythical lion which is believed to have a capacity for discerning between good and bad. It has a large horn on its head, whole body is covered by scales. It is also as known as ‘an omniscient mythical beast". Therefore, supreme court justice dressed an official uniform haitai shape decorated in the Joseon Dynasty period in Korea. To this day, there are Haitai statues in front of Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the National Assembly Building.

Dragons are legendary creatures that worshiped as a holy animal in many Asian culture. It represents Royal authority. Also it is inherited that dragons are able to control weathers. For these reasons, the Emperors worn costumes that dragon patterns designed as well as accessaries.      

Symbols for Course

During the process of creating symbol for our course symbol I did research for a range of different recycle and environmental symbol than I realised that the inside shape of basic recycle symbol looks like a tree. The idea of combining a tree and recycle symbol came to my mind as a the best symbol for our course with a tagline that 'Do recycle and save trees'.

After that I developed the idea and made the tree inside of symbol more noticeable.

Five Pixelated Images

1-Nigel Bailey,2-David Walsh,3-Desiree Deklerk,4-Nathan Scoular,5-Andrew Barum

In this exercise, I could learn the fact that not many visual elements are needed to make an image recognisable. For instance, I made a pixelated image of David which is consisted of huge pixels. This is difficult to figure out who it is when it's big  but it's easier to figure out when the image become smaller. These big pixels are breaking up the shape of his face but at the same time it gives enough colour information of the face.

Road signs

I found this exercise really difficult, It was a challenge that put information of each signs  into limited colour and shape, especially signs like Red Light District and Gold Digger are the hardest one. Because the signs are not normally represented as a sign and meanings they have are a little bit ambiguous.

So in this exercise I tried to find  minimal symbols which can effectively represent each sign than transform as a pictogram image. because I thought using a simple image is  more clear to identify signs rather than make it complicate.For instance Fashion shop and Red Light District signs, I chose sunglasses and women's leg in net stroking respectively.

Tangram

Tulip

A bearded man

  

A running man

Pelican

Truck

This exercise was a quite fun and reminded me memory of my childhood. Things that I realised during this task was we can present a various sort of characters and shapes with a limited range of triangles and rectangle. Like the face that I made is not just a normal face it has bread ,wearing a cap with a funny facial expression.

Humpty Dumpty

To be frank I had no idea what Humpty Dumpty was before I watched a movie clip for children on Youtube. After the exercise I was pretty Impressed by the fact that we can actually create a story with symbols in many other different ways of approach.