Shape Activity
Shapes...
Shapes convey form, structure, and relationships within a composition.
Shapes result from lines meeting to create enclosed spaces, being two-dimensional with length and width.
Shapes can be inspired by nature's curves or geometric precision and contribute to a design's aesthetic style, conveying diverse feelings, ideas, messaging and identity
Pictograph Activity
Pictographs are symbols that are based on recognisable shapes and images. They are commonly found in public areas as signs. There are several examples below.
Escalator
No Smoking
Baby Change
Using shape, create your own pictographs that represent the following:
Fast Food Outlet
Internet Available
Petrol Station
For Your Portfolio
Create a title in your portfolio, called 'Shape Activity' and put your designs on this page.
C level (ish)
Accredited & Tertiary:
Label the three pictographs you have created
Note which shapes you have used and what about them communicates the idea you were symbolising.
B level (ish)
Tertiary:
-Identify three principles of design or elements of art (three total across both groups) that you have used in your pictograph design
-Annotate the ways that you have used these elements or principlesAccredited:
-Complete C level steps
-Identify a principle of design or element of art that you have used in your design and explain how you used it and why.
A level (ish)
Tertiary:
-Complete previous steps
-Show evidence of experimentation with your icon designs and annotate your choices along the way, explaining how you improved or changed you designs
-Comment on the effect that these edit changes may have on the audience of your icons and identify who you believe the audience would beAccredited:
-Identify three principles of design or elements of art (three total across both groups) that you have used in your pictograph design
-Annotate the ways that you have used these elements or principles