Week 1 - Signs & Visual Commuications, Part 1

(1) Defining terms related to concepts in Visual Communication; for each term do the following:
a.) type the word, itself, b.) explain the meaning, c.) give an example by re-posting a picture found online 

- Alphabet : a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order to represent the basic sounds of a language; in particular, the set of letters from A to Z . - - 








- Street sign : a sign usually on the side of a streetor highway bearing symbols or words of warning or direction to motorists or pedestrians and often having a characteristic shape — compare stopsign.






- Advertisement : a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.












-Constellation : a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries. 

1. ASCII Symbol : ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined.
2. Electronic symbol : An electronic symbol is a pictogram used to represent various electrical and electronicdevices (such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors) in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit.
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4. Morse Code : an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound. 
5. American Sign Language : a form of sign language developed in the US and used also in English-speaking parts of Canada. 
6. Glyph : a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.