But I wanted to find a more simple way of delivering messages and I did a research about the military map symbols used in the korean war.
The symbols mainly used dots, lines, crosses and circles. But from a far distance(100m~), the thin lines and crosses may not be seen. So I narrowed the components to colored dots and colored shapes. To make it more visible the symbol must be a contrast color like black/white, black/yellow, white/red. But the modern city has many black and white parts. So I choose colors red, green and white for the symbol system. Because the purpose of this symbol is a day to day urban communication use. And addition to this I wanted to included time to the symbol system. the analogue symbol is only a still image but if the symbol is used in a iPad or other digital devices, it could add movement(animation). But for the simple and fast communication, I think it is good to loop 2 still images.
I tried to make my own basic communication list.
- yes
- no
- come
- stop
- hello
- goodbye
- sorry
- thank you
- wait
- help
- danger
And simplified the symbol using only dots and squares.
The last two(help,danger) are a looping two image symbol. because it is urgent and needs to catch the eye quickly.
