Week 2 - Signs & Visual Communication, Part 2a - Elements of Design 

CALLIGRAM-a word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meaning of the words themselves.

the image being built is a Tardis from the show
Doctor Who. the words are quotes from
 the show

the word being shown is shiver and
the word its self looks like its shivering 

the picture being shown is a camera. The words that make up the camera are words that photographers use and words that apply to taking the picture

The image is of a panther.
The text is just saying the word panther.

The picture is showing an ant.
And the words in the picture are naming the parts of
the ant and what kind of animal it is.

PICTOGRAMS-a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

This pictogram is showing the company IBM. The viewer
is meant to think to take the picture as if it was a word. 

This pictogram is showing the store named Sears. The viewer
is meant to think of the ear in a plural sense in order to make
it seem like the store's name.

This pictogram is showing a search engine named FireFox.
The viewer is meant to think of fire and a fox and put it together.