Thursday, September 8, 2011

Meaning 1 - Blog Exercise

Representation
This representational example is a picture of a statue of an Arabian, which was made of Legos.  The statue is represental becasuce audiences can recognize it from the detail of its appearance and ethnic dress. It is the direct depict of a real person.  The target audiences of this statue are children so that establish a statue a by copying it from real life is good for educating Children. Also, the color of the the statue is attractive in three primary color for children. Furthermore, material which is lego for establishing this statue is expressive and appropriated to attract children.







Abstraction
This image is abstracting in the way of function. The abstraction derives from the concept of “BIG.” Audiences can visually perceive the “big” of the shop through the word of “BIG” which scale is larger than other objects on the top of the gate. So the sign creates straight relationship to our visual perception. The image delivers a message that the shop provides a huge amount of products for customers. In addition, the impact that the image created is helpful to attract customers to the shop.








Symbolism
This example is a wood sign for children’s riding at LEGOLAND of California. The sign is associated with animals which patterns of skins show on the sign. The essential features of these animals are the color and pattern of their skin so that it is not necessary to add other parts of the animals on the sign. For example, white strips on black background of a letter “A” denote a zebra. As the result, this symbol is helping children connection the sign to animals.

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