Pictogram As a Language - an exploration of pictogram

Pictogram as a Language an exlporation of pictogram

King Hei

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Introduction I plan to create a systemetic structure of pictogram which allows the user can use the system directly to communicate with others in a way like using any languages that we are talking. Hence when I develop the project I decided to design the pictogram base on different function like the system in English.

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Character Set

Personal I/Me/Myself

Other

Person

King

Time

Continuous

Stop

Before

Complete

Seperated

Hole-opened

Opened

Here

Up/Rising

Down/Falling

Left

Right

Metal

Wood

Fire/Heat

Soil/Earth

Water

Character

Time Now

States

Position

Elements

Future

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Senses Thinking

Love

Eat/Taste

Touch

Hear

See

Happy

Spicy/Hot

Hard

Noisy

Dark

Sad

Sweet

Soft

Sweetful

Feeling

Action Work

Discripitive Opposite Meaning

Walk/Run

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Rules Before reading and using the system, please study the follwing rules. 1. When writing and read with the system, start from the left and the top. 2. The system is based on English simple sentence structure 3. Use the negative sign for opposite meaning. 4. As there are no punctuation (i.e. period or comma) put a space between each clause. 5. When describing a situation at one moment subject and object, place the pictogram in vertical order. 6. When present complicated idea you may use more than one layer.

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I touch the metal.

I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch the metal.

I touch the metal, it is hard.

The metal fall on my head, I feel sad.

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Application Five Chinese proverbs and one Russian proverb are translated into the pictogram system. In the following pages, first the pictogram sentence was shown follwed by the page that show with typographic meaing of the proverb.

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吃得苦中苦，方為人上人。 No Pain, No Gain.

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水滴石穿

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人望高處，水向低流。

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鍥而舍之，朽木不折；鍥而不舍，金石可鏤。

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Thinking