PICTOGRAMS FOR THE SCHOOL
http://www.didatticarte.it/Blog/?p=1151 WHAT IS A PICTOGRAM?
WHAT IS A PICTOGRAM? Do you know the little man and the little woman on the bathroom doors? Here are those that are nothing more than pictograms, extremely stylized images that represent, by visual analogy, objects or very simple concepts. It is one of the most ancient forms of written communication, halfway between figurative representation and actual writing, based on the alphabet. Yet pictography has never been abandoned, on the contrary, in recent years it has come back to the fore thanks to the enormous demand for "icons" for the digital world.
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PICTOGRAMS With pictograms you can also try to create "complex" narratives summarizing them in a few symbols. This is the case of Shortology, a creative experiment that I have already discussed in the post on Visual Thinking, which you can see below. Brilliant, isn't it?
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Something similar was also done by Viktor Hertz with his most famous movie posters in a pictographic key.
Also by Viktor Hertz are the posters that summarize in pictograms the titles of the songs of the most famous musical groups. Take a good look at this of the Beatles and try to find out all the titles on the chart. Can't you do it? Here is the solution ...
PICTOGRAMS The Long & Winding Road 8 Days A Week Here Comes The Sun - I'll Follow The Sun Norwegian Wood Yellow Submarine Hello Goodbye Baby It's You - Little Child (?) While My Guitar Gently Weeps Magical Mystery Tour Happiness Is A Warm Gun Polythene Pam Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Drive My Car Strawberry Fields Forever Sun King Ticket To Ride Maxwell's Silver Hammer Her Majesty Blackbird Can't Buy Me Love Octopus' Garden Do You Want To Know A Secret / No Reply (?) I Am The Walrus Carry that Weight
PICTOGRAMS Another interesting field of application of pictograms is that of the Olympic Games: each edition produces a new series with the symbols of all the sports and related services, with small stylistic variations on a universally coded basis. Below you can see pictograms for the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984, Barcelona of 1992 and London of 2012.
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PICTOGRAMS And these are the ones designed for Rio 2016.
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PICTOGRAMS The drawing of pictograms for an app or to indicate the environments of a school, a theater, a shopping center can be a useful and amusing exercise. How do you get started? First of all, you can find out what has been done before. It is a fundamental operation because it allows us to have a starting point and not arrive at a result that others have already achieved before us. So, a look at the pictograms of the International Standard is a must ...
https://www.aiga.org/symbol-signs/ PICTOGRAMS
PICTOGRAMS For example, if we wanted to design the pictogram that indicates the study activity, we need to understand how many variations we can have and establish which one makes the idea we want to communicate better. We will find the student with a book and a table in profile, three-quarters, in front, only with the book, or even the only book or the head with the wheels, as well as some version not too stylized and enriched with Is it enough just a student and a book colors. or do you need a table to show that you are studying?
PICTOGRAMS Once established which will be the most effective image, we start to make sketches to simplify the chosen image: this in fact must be recognizable even at a quick glance, even from a distance, even by those who belong to different cultures. In short, it must be unequivocal. It is necessary to find the point of stylization limit beyond which the recognizability of the image is lost. Giovanni Belgrano and Bruno Munari have devised a game to show precisely the passages from the photographic image to the symbol, the path that leads from "a hand" to "the hand".
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PICTOGRAMS As a final step it is necessary to carefully check the geometric construction of the pictogram using appropriately designed modules and grids, especially if you are planning to design an entire family of symbols
PICTOGRAMS The pictogram should not have more than one color and can be used both in negative and in positive. It is the same process of designing a brand with the difference that the pictograms are not linked to a brand and must not communicate "propaganda" messages. Why not try, then, to use the style of pictograms to symbolize the poetics of painters? That's what Giorgia Lupi did with her Visualizing pinters ’lives.
PICTOGRAMS Outmane Amahou's work is even more minimalist, with simple and immediately recognizable pictograms. Pictograms on art that become art themselves!
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PICTOGRAMS Practice MISSION: we have to draw pictograms for our school to hang around, to remember the students some fundamental rules of the school. During art lessons we will instead design pictograms and signals, to communicate the school rules graphically
https://www.seton.it/cartelli-pittogrammi PICTOGRAMS
Remember
Example Do Not Run Stairs
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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS Vocabulary for Beginners
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How to draw Traffic Signs
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