Graphics Reference
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Table 1.
Visual Response: Symbols of Daily Life
Draw symbols you use in your daily life, which represent you best.
Then, draw your own sign to be placed on your door, the sign that sends a message to the visitors. Try to make a sign informing a passerby
without any text that this is your room. This could even form your own logo.
Caveat (a warning or caution):
• Some symbols become a cliché and evoke an enormous amount of connotations, hints, and associations, for example, the “heart.”
symbol. Symbols are not the same in different parts of the world. For example, a sign “WC” ('water closet') is used in some parts of
Europe for a restroom. In the US, an answer to a question, “Where is WC?” could often be, “WC? I do not know him.”
• Symbols may change their meaning. For example, an image of smoke going out of factory chimneys was considered a sign of prog-
ress in the times of industrial revolution and was even pictured on some currency bills. Nowadays, it means smog and pollution.
• Some usages of symbols result in misunderstandings. For example, children can often see a bulb drawn over Einstein's head is
depicted as a symbol of his genius. Thus for some children, Einstein + the light bulb = a bright idea, so Einstein was the one who
invented a bulb.
Figure 5. Cayden Osley, “A Day” (©2012, C. Osley. Used with permission)
