When I started working on my new symbols I found it a bit of a challenge because I don’t believe in stereotyping genders and gender roles in society. So when I approached working on symbols for the upper class that was classy but still not too bias I had a unique challenge upon me. I started with the symbol of the man and women, wanting to emphasize how upper class people have a different air about them. I emphasized their clothes and silhouettes, because when we run into important CEOs they hold how they look and come off to clients in high importance. I them moved on to the fire extinguisher and wanted to give it a more action based image than the one in existence to show how to use it. I didn’t want the blocky bright colors because I felt it was overwhelming and instead excluded color from the main object, so when you looked at it your eyes you move from the fire to the water to the object you would use to put it out, like in real life. The washroom was difficult because I had already worked on the gender segregated signs. When I thought about it there were places where people went to just clean themselves up and primp up. So I created a clean symmetrical symbol that communicated ‘washing’ and cleaning up.
When I worked on the next designs I kept the idea of balance in my mind, and tried to use asymmetrical balance to my advantage and make a more detailed but still simple and interesting icon. I played with how an image would flow when I worked on my icon for the janitor and exit. I wasn’t really pleased with the colors I picked for my exit sign because even though they were contrasting, they just clashed and didn’t seem to work well with each other at all.
Lastly the car was an interesting thing to work on because it did need to show upper class and still be simple. So from there I attempted to draw a sports car in a parking spot, the most basic of images, and relaying more than a simple picture of a car, so it would not be confused with a car rental company.
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