i found this neat book on sign and symbols and their development. its called signs and symbols; their design and meaning, by Adrian Frutiger. i found this particular page rather interesting. it details how shapes like the star, cross, arrow and serpent are often present in symbols and the evolution of those shapes and how we react to them

tangrams

flower

sail boat

cat

angry cat

flower/windmill

running man

bird

bearded face

teapot

Heres our first in-class assignment from week one. i decided to make humpty's wall more of a wall street and the massive fall his sudden financial situation. so poor old humpty (being a massive yuppie and comparing all of life's worth to his income decides to do away with himself. he sits on the train track thinking about all the things in life he missed out on while chasing the dollar. is luck eludes him again as he fails to off himself and he's left to spend the rest of his days thinking about how silly he was to try and kill himself in the first place and that he should have spent more time on enjoying the more enduring and rewarding things in life

symbols in the street

During a symbol scavenger hunt in Newtown