Pixle pics

Group Symbol

Symbols that have changed meaning.

The Cross

The Pentagram

The Swastika

Road Signs

Week3

Suppression

The Tarot

Superstitions is something that is found in every culture and it difference from one country to the next.

As an Arab was have different meaning for different superstitions,Going back to the ancient times when the british where in Egypt and they where discovering the ancient tombs of the pharaoh they also believed in the well known Curse of the pharaohs the death of Lord Carnarvon six weeks after the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb resulted in many curse stories.

Animals are frequent inspiration for superstitions like the owl is conceders to be a bad omen if see and even worse if heard, also the hyena is one of the most unluckiest animal symbols in the arab world because of there wildly ways and there uncleanliness.

Having your shoe upside down is disrespectful toward God.

The “Evil Eye” represents envy look where some arabs say it can kill a man so compliments are often rejected to prevent envy. The symbol use to word of the envy is a hand as it diverts the envy from the wearer to the amulet.

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WEEK 2

-Group more effective than individual

-Roman--turtle shelled in war 

turtle shelled - Emblem of wales and through history - corporate identity  - Why do we join groups? To belong, security and safety -Symbols to identify a group shivery - football and cheer leaders The white father in WWI (symbol) How many groups do you belong to ? How do you recognise  one another ? Do we all recognise your symbolise ? Which group did you choose to join ? Which groups would you like ? - We use symbols to unite us, but they can also be used to segregate  - Branding slaves  - Clothe can be a symbols : yellow stare

Week 1

Lecture 1

The Stroop Effect

-Visual Codes 

•  analogue 
• digital ( broken into little peaces)
• iconic signs (old pictures, an image with significance )
• iconic words (Pow)
• pictograph (object, action
• pictograph groups (picture word)
• pictograph phonogram (sound)

Redus IBM

- Semantic signs (associated with a bad sign)

- ideogram (the symbol don't make sense but the idea does, like the red cross) 

Welcome

Hi,

My name is Elia Fanous and I'm currently studying Communication Design at Billy Blue College of Design in North Sydney.

On this blog, I will be posting notes and inspirations I've gained and gathered from my lectures in my Symbols and Distribution class.

I hope you enjoy my blog.

Elia