Symbolisim

Create a comprehensive list of that which symbolises your own experience of London. This list should refer to your own experience and consider the many different aspects of London that form your experience - weather, location, sounds, objects, smells, atmosphere, situations, encounters, people, etc. Please try to avoid the cliche’s at all costs - this should be London through YOUR eyes as a designer.

Cigarettes

Underground

Cloudy

E&C Subways

E&C Market

E&C Shopping Centre

Music

Dark

Footsteps

Alarm Clock

Ipod

Phone

People

Crows

Escalators

Lifts

Get out and about around E&C to gather visual references - photographs, objects, sketches:

International System Of Typographic Picture Education

Isotype (International System of TYpographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pictorial form. It was first known as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics due to its having been developed at the (Social and economic museum of Vienna) between 1925 and 1934. The founding director of this museum, Otto Neurath, was the initiator and chief theorist of the Vienna Method. The term Isotype was applied to the method around 1935.

Olympic Symbols for Events over the Years

The range of Olympic symbols created by that years hosting country illustrates the range of methods that can be adhered to whilst communicating a message. It is simple yet effective and comprehendible by a range of multi cultures and languages. Most countries like to add their own style by inputting artistic styles from there culture to make it there own.