Reducing and simplifying symbols to the bare core of what needs to be communicated but still understandable in just fractions of a second is a skill that only the best graphic designers truly master. I believe that training in subtracting details to make the message clearer is a must, especially if you want to work in a traditional Scandinavian design way. By doing this assignment you will reflect on visual semiotics and how to use pictograms and visual language in general so it conveys complex messages. I know that you will be a better designer just by trying to complete this assignment. Get personalized feedback on your pictogram will grow your skill in communicative graphic design by reducing details.
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Learn Graphic Design by Creating a Pictogram Showing That Book Burning Is Forbidden As Minimalistic as Possible
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- After uploading your assignment, expect personal feedback from Mr. Seo within one week.
The Assignment you need to complete to improve from the feedback of Mr. Seo
- Use Adobe Illustrator to design a black and white illustration that most people would interpret as Burning of books is forbidden.
- Reduce the details of your illustrator into a pictogram, try to find the borderline where it is to simplified to understand for most people.
- Take the borderline version and add back the details needed for most people to understand it.
- Send in the three illustrations; The starting illustration. The borderline to over reduced shape. The final version of the pictogram that most people could understand.
Feedback will at first hand focus on the following features your assignment
- The visual semiotics of your starting point illustration
- Your skill of reducing details
- Your skill of knowing where to stop reducing
- How well the final version conveys the message
About the Tutor
Tomas Seo has been a professional designer for more than fifteen years. His design resumé stretches from traditional art direction jobs to corporate identity programs and design innovation projects, and includes work for clients such as Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, JCDecaux, Diligentia and a large variety of governmental organizations in Sweden.
Mr Seo has an extensive background in business development, has been the managing director of the design studio Pangea Design and was the youngest honor member ever in the Swedish Association of Designers history after completing three elected terms as their President. He is also frequently consulted as expert by start-ups and companies facing challenges from innovation driven market changes. He is a well liked guest teacher at Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theater (Dramatiska Institutet) and Hyper Island.
Reading and external links
There is a strong tradition of pictograms for Olymic Games well worth studying further.
The Pictograms of the Beijing Olympics 2008
The Pictograms of the London Olympics 2012
Watch Designer Stephen Heller do a histroy of Olympic Pictograms for the New York Times
Get more inspiration on what you should study for this assignment from
Wikipedia: Pictorgram
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