Week 1 - Exercise 1 - Tangrams!

Tangrams are a lot of fun... and I haven't done one for a very long time until we were given it as an exercise to complete in class. Our task was to complete 6 Tangrams 1 for each category we were given. The categories were: Flower/plant, Action figure, Vehicle, Appliance, Animal and a Face!

What I gathered from this task, was that when creating a symbol, it has to be universally recognisable and not complex so it clearly shows the viewer what it is and its purpose without having to study the symbol for too long. So this was a perfect task as you were constricted to using only a certain amount of fixed shapes.

I found this task very enjoyable and a fun way at looking at symbol construction.

Here are my 6 Tangram creations:

Flower/plant


Face



Animal



Appliance



Vehicle



Action Figure