Thursday, January 22, 2015

Week 2 - Signs & Visual Communication, Part 2b- Designing custom Rebus, Pictograms, Re-Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS6


This picture means, "we drove to the party and we ate and had fun".
                                               



                                                           This picture means I miss you, very much, where you been 






Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Week 2 - Signs & Visual Communication, Part 2a - Elements of Design (Adobe Illustrator CS6)

1. Calligram- a word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meaning of the words themselves.

sentence: is shows a spider with letters on it






There are words shaped in a camera






It shows a dog with words on it






2.Pictogram- a pictorial symbol for a word or phase. Pictograms were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in egyptand mesopotamia from before 3000 BC




 




                                         
                                                    It shows a big red sign
                                             




                                                        It shows a one way sign going left


                                                              It shows a no dogs sign




3.Rebus- a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.                                            





                                   









It shows a goodbye word going down




                              It shows the word aid three times and a arrow pointing at the first one



It shows the word bout three times with roman numerals on the side














































Thursday, January 15, 2015


1. Alphabet- a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language; in particular, the set of letters from A to Z.


2. Street Sign- street sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways.



3. Advertisement- a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or 
publicizing a job vacancy.





4.Constellation- a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.






5. ASCII symbols- ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet.



6. Electronic symbol- An electronic symbol is a pictogram used to represent various electrical and electronic devices (such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors) in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit.



7. Morse Code- an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.



8. American Sign Language- a form of sign language developed in the US and used also in English-speaking parts of Canada.

9. Glphh- a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph. 






























1. Alphabet- a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language; in particular, the set of letters from A to Z.


2. Street Sign- street sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways.