Pictograms & application

The whole point of what I am doing is to make information easy to understand for students. A language we use in graphics for doing this is pictograms. They reduce information to just what is necessary for us so that we get it instantly. It seemed suitable to think about adopting them in my designs.

My tutor had suggested having a way to link subjects together so I have started thinking about what is involved in a subject rather than using the subject as a whole. So illustration and photography could be aspects from art & design and together (with a whole bunch of other symbols) they make graphic design. The illustration symbol may also be used in resistant materials, so certain pictograms would be apparent across subjects.

I wanted to keep the style of the symbols very simple and tried out a few ways they could look. I liked the openness of using strokes rather than blocked colour. I also didn't like the idea of having a bounding box. I want to get across that there are no boundaries.