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PICTOGRAM
A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY MS TINA
When human start design?
• How Humans Express ThemselvesFrom pigments to printing presses, symbols changed the way humans lived and provided new ways to cope with an unpredictable world.
• Modern humans used color, words, and sound to produce the artifacts you see here. The ability to plan, record information, and communicate helped humans survive as climates fluctuated strongly.
• Ultimately, words and symbols led to language and the richness of modern human life.
• A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY MS TINA
The symbol on the wall
Old ancient create a simple graph to record they daily life.
• A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY MS TINA
Type of symbol : Pictograph / Pictogram
• A graphic symbol that represents a specific object, activity, place or event by illustration.
• Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing.
• It is the basis of cuneiform and hieroglyphs.
• A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY MS TINA
• Early written symbols were based on pictograms and ideograms.
• It is commonly believed that pictograms appeared before ideograms.
• Pictograms and ideograms were used by various ancient cultures all over the world since around 9000 BC and began to develop into logographic writing systems around 5000 BC.
Type of symbol : Pictograph / Pictogram
• A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC DESIGN BY MS TINA
Type of symbol : Pictograph / Pictogram
• Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication in some non-literate cultures in Africa, The Americas, and Oceania, and are often used as simple symbols by most contemporary cultures.
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Pictogram
• Pictograms are quickly becoming an iconic fad, but they’ve been around since the dawn of time. What are they? What are they good for? Why are they so trendy and should we be worried?
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A history in the picture
• Pictographs formed the basis for early written symbols as used by ancient Egyptian, Sumerian and Chinese civilizations.
• These ancient civilizations used symbols nearly 5000 years back and developed them into writing systems during the third millennium BCE..
• Pictographs are designated as art form in Native American art, Pre-Columbian art and Pre-Colonization art in the Americas.
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• Today we use pictograms in all sorts of situations. We interpret any number of pictograms every day.
• While lately popularized by handheld interfaces like the iPhones tab control, Pictograms have never been out of style.
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The International Standard
• Pictographs are commonly used today as pictorial signs, statistical diagrams or instructions in various fields.
• Pictographs are graphic in nature and are used to indicate places such as train stations, airports, hotels, public toilets and so on.
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The International Standard
• Similarly a universal set of pictographs is used as laundry symbols on clothing labels.
• A standard system of pictographs was laid down in the “Public Information Symbols” which has been accredited as the “international standard ISO 7001”
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Why so popular?
• The simple shapes and subdued colors feel right at home in an interface that might otherwise be filled with content boxes, panes, rows of data and other control elements.
• pictograms are incredibly easy to work with. You can add them to your existing design without causing too much of a disturbance.
• They certainly cater to the ‘Helvetica Generation’ of designers that enjoy clean lines and a balanced approach to visual hierarchy.
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SAMPLE OF PICTOGRAM DESIGN
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Type of symbol : Ideogram
• Pictures which represent an idea or concept, rather than a group of letters arranged according to the phonemes of a spoken language, as is done in alphabetic languages.
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Type of symbol : Ideogram
• Examples of ideograms include way finding signage, such as in airports and other environments where many people may not be familiar with the language of the place they are in, which are used worldwide regardless of how they are pronounced in different languages.
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Type of symbol : Ideogram
• The term “ideogram” is commonly used to describe logo graphic writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters. However, symbols in logo graphic systems generally represent words or morphemes rather than pure ideas.
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Type of symbol : Logogram / Monogram
• logograph, is a single grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (a meaningful unit of language).
• This stands in contrast to other writing systems, such as alphabets, where each symbol (letter) primarily represents a sound or a combination of sounds.
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Type of symbol : Logogram / Monogram
The old ancient monogram
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Type of symbol : Logogram / Monogram
The modern monogram
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Assignment 1
Pictogram Design
Title : Japan’s Olympic 2020
Description :
Student are required to design a series of pictogram for the Japan’s Olympic 2020 games
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Assignment 1
Pictogram Design
Guideline :
• Research / collect 30 different pictogram by using Internet and magazine.
• Research and study the history of Olympic and all the pictogram for the games.
• Student needs to design 15 sport games pictograph for the 2020 Japan Olympic.
• Create a rough draft of the best thumbnail which is approve by your lecturer
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Sample of 2016 Brazil’s Olympic
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Sample of 2016 Brazil’s Olympic
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Idea Link
https://www.behance.net/gallery/9064197/Tokyo-2020-Olympic-Games-Design
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http://heyjesslynariesta.blogspot.com/2013/11/olympic-in-padang-indonesia-2014.html
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