PROJECT 2: SYMBOL SET · 2020. 12. 14. · PROJECT 2: SYMBOL SET A symbol is a mark, sign, or word...
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PROJECT 2: SYMBOL SET
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signi-fies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between other-wise very different concepts and experiences. All com-munication is achieved though the use of symbols.
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What does this represent? How do we know?
What does it actually depict?
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This is not a pipe.
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Symbols are a type of sign; signs take the form of words, images, sounds, odors, flavors, acts or objects, but such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning. A sign is something which stands for something other than itself.
*This image comes from a text by Ferdinand de Saussure, one of the founding theorists of Semiotics, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication.
“Tree”
Signified
concept
Sign
Signifier
sound
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Buddhist SwastikaFrom 2553 years ago to the
present, this symbol signified auspiciousness and
good fortune
Nazi HakenkreuzFrom Feb 24, 1920thru May 23, 1945Represents a fascist dictatorship and White Supremacy
Symbols/Signs are unstable; as culture shifts and changes, the mutually agreed meaning can slip or evenreverse.
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Sumerian symbols
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Mayan symbols
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Wing-Dings
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Astrological Symbols
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Ancient Norse Symbols
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Emoticons
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Emoticons
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Cuniform
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The I Ching
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Imaginary Language in Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus
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Project 2 Descriptionmake some shapes... play with stroke, reflect, shear, distort and transform tools
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pick up to 5 shapes (minimum 2):
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make 40 variations on those shapes:
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Variations can be really simple: