Rebus

Rebus is when you cre8 words using figures or numbers to represend words or letters.

In this case:  cre8 sk8, h8

Visual Conventions

Visual convention are those signs and symbols that no one needed to explain their meaning to you, because somewhere deep inside your head you already knew them.
For example, everyone knows that a red sign means stop, and that a circle with a stripe in the middle means do not do. What about the green light? Did you need someone to tell you that it is OK to proceed?

Tacticts of Manipulation

There are a lot of ways to manipulate people. One example is: I took the train to North Sydney yesterday from the Wynyard station, it was an unusual train because the last stop of this one was in North Sydney. This means that the train takes another lane while in movement forcing the passagers to exit from the opposite door. I knew that, and so did some other passengers so we face the correct exit, but there were a few people that didn`t  know that and so were facing the wrong door. As time passed they noticed a lot of people were facing the opposite direction and were “forced” to turn around, proving the theory.

Pixelated Portraits

Revolutionary Symbols

1: Rio Grande do Sul flag. 150 years ago the state of RS wanted the independence from Brasil, the revolution flag was the 3 stripes in green, red and yellow. Green and yellow represent Brasil and red represents the Revolution dividing the country. The war is over, RS loose to Brasil and now is just one of the 23 states of the country but the flag still the same.

2: Osama`s face, symbol of terrorism 

3: This is a symbol for the war in Palestine

4: Russian Revolution

5: Venezuela Revolution led by Hugo Chavez

Wide Open

Our tribe name is called Wide open. I believe it is a strong name and we can play with the name to create tag lines. Wide open your eyes for this cause, for example...The best symbol to represent us is this one.

Save as...

This is the logo I designed for our cause. Recycle plastic bottles. Save as...

Identifiers

Just before I forget once again. These images represent the 5 identifiers.

1) The fire brigade

2) The best soccer team in Brazil, Gremio from Porto Alegre

3) Bikers

4) BOPE Brazilian Elite Squad Police

5) Los Angeles Lakers

Road Signs

Symbols that changed meaning

I had to search symbols that have been changed their meaning with the time. The first symbol that came to me was the O.K one, researching the symbol and the letters O.K I found out that there are many and many theories about the beginning of this international expression. The one I heard from my great grandpa was that soldiers use to do that typical gesture and say O.K when they have 0 dead in their troops or 0 kill.

The 3rd picture is my favorite, I was walking around Manly this morning and found this lovely piece of art. The heart is made of old thongs and in every single one there is a message from the people who place it on the fence. Searching for the meaning and the emergence I found out that hearts were used by Magicians and Alchemists for incantations pertaining to matters of love and romance. Since then this symbol has been used to represent love, joy etc...  

Horseshoe

Brazilians are a very superstitious people, with the mix of cultures and religions  coming from asia, africa and europe  you can find  many beliefs and this country. One funny example of that ( even funnier because my mom has place one in our beach house)  is if you place a horseshoe above the main door of you house, it will bring joy to everyone who lives in the house and will keep the bad spirits away. Another one that my grandma always do is: If you have that inconvenient guest in your home who never goes even when is late at night, and you don't want to rude and ask him to go. You put a broom behind the main door and tat guest will go.

Tangram

This was a very interesting exercise. We had to create 6 different forms using these shapes

Humpty Dumpy Exercise

We had to represent the story of Humpty Dumpy using day to day symbols.