Thursday, 24 March 2011

TangramTask



















WEEK 2


-Group more effective than individual
-Roman--turtle shelled in war 
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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

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

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) 















Tuesday, 15 March 2011

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