100 Day Project: Universal Pictograms

100 Day Project: Universal Pictograms

NO LETTERS OR NUMBERS. JUST SYMBOLS EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND.

Is it possible?

By The Numbers

  • 100 Pictograms

    One pictogram a day for 100 days.

  • 230 Hours of Research

    Each pictogram required at least an hour of research. The longest one took three.

  • 14 Categories

    For every week in the project, there was a specific category.

Process

Every pictogram followed a set of rules. It couldn’t have any numbers or letters or any color besides black and white. It also had to be a universal symbol for what it stood for.

Step 2: Research

The second step was to do research to figure out how to represent said idea in a way people could understand. Cleaning for example is something people do all over the world. However, it is not something everybody does the same. After doing research, I came to the conclusion that a broom is the best way to represent cleaning because it is a very common tool used across many different cultures for cleaning.

Step 3: Illustration

The final step was to Illustrate what I wanted. This was the shortest step as the goal of the project was to make things as simple as they could be.

Step 1: Ideation

The first step was to think about something that would make sense to have a pictograph for.

For example: cleaning

In the weeds

Every Week’s Theme

  • Week 1: Seven Universal Emotions

  • Week 2: Prepositions

  • Week 3: Door Signs

  • Week 4: Directions

  • Week 5: Prepositions II

  • Week 6: Plants

  • Week 7: Animals

  • Week 8: Numbers

  • Week 9: Warnings

  • Week 10: Time

  • Week 11: Weather

  • Week 12: Sports

  • Week 13: Weapons

  • Week 14: Miscellaneous

ALRIGHT ALBERT EINSTEIN LETS HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

ALRIGHT ALBERT EINSTEIN LETS HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

FOR EVERY CATEGORY, I SPENT TIME RESEARCHING AND UNDERSTANDING THE INS AND OUTS OF THE IDEA I WAS DESIGNING FOR. TAKE TIME FOR EXAMPLE. I LEARNED THE DEFINITION OF A SECOND IS:

The second is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to sβˆ’1

TO YOU, THIS MIGHT SEEM LIKE A RABBIT HOLE, BUT TO ME, SOLID RESEARCH MAKES GREAT DESIGN.

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OTHER WEEKS

  • Universal Emotions

    Joy, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust, and contempt

  • Weather

    Sunny, windy, snowy, rainy, cloudy, hail, and partly cloudy

  • Prepositions

    Prepositions

    In front of, behind, to the right of, to the left of, on top of, underneath, and inside of

Quote Source

β€œIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”