Week 1 - Signs & Visual Communications, Part 1

Alphabet-An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit). 


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1. Advertisement-a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc. the action of making generally known; a calling to the attention of the public: The news of this event will receive wide advertisement

Constellation-In modern astronomy, a constellation is a specific area of the celestial sphere as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). These areas had their origins in star patterns from which the constellations take their names. There are 88 officially recognized constellations, covering the entire sky. When astronomers say an object is "in" a given constellation, they mean it is within the boundaries of one of these defined areas of sky.

ASCII symbols-

An electronic symbol is a pictogram used to represent various electrical and electronic devices (such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors) in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit. These symbols can (because of remaining traditions) vary from country to country, but are today to a large extent internationally standardized. Some symbols represent components which ceased to be used routinely as newer technologies were introduced (such as vacuum tubes).

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. The International Morse Code^[1] encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals as standardized sequences of short and long signals called "dots" and "dashes",^[1] or "dits" and "dahs". Because many non-English natural languages use more than the 26 Roman letters, extensions to the Morse alphabet exist for those languages.

American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (FSL). It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.

In typography, a glyph /ˈɡlɪf/ is an elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing and thereby expressing thoughts, ideas and concepts. As such, glyphs are considered to be unique marks that collectively add up to the spelling of a word, or otherwise contribute to a specific meaning of what is written, with that meaning dependent on cultural and social usage.




1. Tent Symbol- This symbol means that there is a camping ground near. You can find this symbol at a camp ground
2.Lunch Table- This symbol usually mean you are in a cafeteria that's usually where you find this symbol at.
3.Toilets Sign:Related Tags : bathroom, black, changing, dressing, gents, girls, ladies, man, men, mens, restroom, restrooms, toilet, toilets, toliet, urination, white, woman, women, womens,

4. Parking Sign:Related Tags : black, car, cars, parking, white,

5.Hotel information SignRelated Tags : ask, assistance, bedroom, black, disturb, help, hotel, hour, information, man, restroom, sleep, travel, white, 6.Restaurant Sign Related Tags : black, break, cafe, cafeteria, cooking, eat, eating, food, fork, kitchen, lunch, restraurant, white, 7.Accessible route Sign Related Tags : accessible, black, disable, disabled, man, restroom, restrooms, route, wheel, wheelchair, white, 8.Information Sign Related Tags : ask, assistance, black, brochures, help, hour, information, visitor, visitors, white, 9.Telephones Sign Related Tags : assistance, black, call, calls, contact, phone, telephone, telephones, white, 10.Sub aqua area Sign Related Tags : aqua, aqualung, area, black, diving, man, pool, swiming, swimming, tank, tanks, white, 11

The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton(referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.^[1]Nicknames for the flag include the "Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory",^[2] and "The Star-Spangled Banner".