The exercise this week had us in our "tribes" (groups for our assessment) coming up with a symbol that would identify what we stood for as a group, taking into consideration the different traits and values each individual has.
My Tribe consists of Josh Davey, Ian Joson and myself.
Our task was to first come up with a mind-map of everything we stood for, then we were to create a paragraph, describing in list format, our beliefs and values as a group. From there we were to break down the paragraph into a sentence, from a sentence to a word, and from a word we were to create a single symbol that would be our tribes identifier.
From this exercise, our tribe broke everything down down to be summed up by the word "Curious" - meaning that we like to live curiously and look at the world in detail.
I found this exercise to be both fun and a great learning tool. It teaches to help get ideas to first look big and then refine what you have. This refinement helps me as a designer to come up with simple yet effective ways of creating meaning through symbols.
*Edit - photos of our groups symbol to be posted once received
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