Thursday, January 15, 2015

Defining terms related to concepts in Visual Communication Part 1

1. Alphabet : A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order 

2.Street Sign : A sign usually on the side of a street or highway bearing symbols or words of warning or direction to motorists or pedestrians and often having a characteristic shape.
3. Advertisement : A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product , service , or event or publicizing a job vacancy. 
4.Constellation : a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries. 
5. ASCII symbols : A type of code for date transmission. 
6. Electronic symbols :  An electronic symbol is a pictogram used to represent various electrical and electronic devices (such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors) in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit.
7. Morse Code : An alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.
8. American Signal Language : a form of sign language developed in the US and used also in English-speaking parts of Canada.
9.Glyph : a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph. 




1 comment:

  1. Week 1, Task 1 completed. Task 2 and Task 3 are not found.

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