I had a few different designs in terms of the actual symbol representing the subject of Spain. To begin with I had the fan and the castanets, which both represent Spain quite well in terms of its culture and traditions, particularly with the flamenco dancing. However, from the first feedback session it came to my attention that the fan symbol could also be used to represent Japanese as it is apart of their culture too. As well as that, having the two symbols together for the one subject did not link well with the rest of the set, which were each being associated with just the one symbol, such as the the calculator for mathematics, the helmet for history and the cylinder for chemistry.
So I decided to simply look into developing the castanets symbol. On testing it to see if people could tell what it by itself, knowing that it stood for a particular university department, it did not do so well at communicating the subject of Spanish. There was confusion with it perhaps being boxing gloves so presenting something to d with sports, so I then went on to look at a new design with a completely different symbol, which seemed to work much better at communicating the subject of Spanish.
No comments:
Post a Comment