In this week's Creative Blog I wanted to share an exercise I read about in a book from class called Caffeine for the Creative Mind by (Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield). The creative exercise was called Our Janitor Doesn’t Look like That! In this week's exercise I was tasked with creating signs for international pectoral language that not only identifies certain things like a door, a room, fire extinguishers, ect. In this exercise, I would have to develop new signs that not only explain to people what the meaning is but also add art to the space. Some examples of signs may include the men's and women’s room, fire extinguisher, exits and parking garage.
My first thoughts in this project were how I was going to distinguish the different signs I wanted to create and how I was going to add art to the space and give the same meaning to the signs I was going to work with. First, I need to decide which three current signs I wanted to evaluate and create new signs for. So I decided to do an exit, parking garage and fire extinguisher signs.
Challenges
Some challenges I came across included the development of the new signs. So what I found that really helped me was doing research on current signs that we use today and trying to develop something different but based on that same sign. For example, in a parking garage, we are used to a sign that has a large P and maybe in conjunction with an arrow pointing to the direction the parking garage is located. So I thought maybe I could just use a photo of a car. For the fire extinguisher just a traditional extinguisher with maybe a flame to let everyone know with a symbol. I believe that’s one of the best international symbols to explain to anyone what its meaning is.
Success
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