SYMBOLS, ICONS, LOGOS

For your next exercise , about icons and symbols.

In your next task, you have to insert on the worksheet three images about the same topic. One of them it must be an icon, the second one a symbol and finally, you have to stick or draw an appropiate logo related to the idea.

Iconic images

GESTALT THEORY: An exercise for 3rd.Level Students

German word with no exact English equivalent, variously defined as completeness, configuration, essence, form, manner, organic structure, totality, and wholeness. At the level of an individual, it means the organized form or pattern that makes up all of a person's experience of what is perceived to be 'out there.
Gestalt experiments show that the brain does not act like a sponge (as a passive receiver of information) but actively filters, structures, and matches all incoming information against known patterns to make sense of it. Gestalt theory was proposed by the Austrian psychologist Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932) in 1890.

Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization

The Law of Proximity: Stimulus elements that are closed together tend to be perceived as a group

The Law of Similarity: Similar stimuli tend to be grouped, this tendency can even dominate grouping due to proximity

The Law of Closure: Stimuli tend to be grouped into complete figures

The Law of Good Continuation: Stimuli tend to be grouped as to minimize change or discontinuity

The Law of Symmetry: Regions bound by by symmetrical boarders tend to be perceived as coherent figures

The Law Simplicity: Ambiguous stimuli tend to be resolved in favor of the simplest

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Peacock symbol

The peacock has been a symbol since long time ago. It appeared in a lot of civilization, religion…

·         Persian people think that two peacock around the tree of live represent the two parts of humans: good and bad, rationality and free spirit.

·         Christian religion says that peacock is symbol of resurrection and immortality because every year peacock feather falls dawn and appeared more beautiful in spring. It is a synonym of Christ. It has some points in common with phoenix: immortality, the idea of "born of their self"…

·         Traditionally Hinduism uses the peacock as mount of war God called Kārttikeya o Skanda. Besides, in south India and Sri Lanka, it is a local god. The peacock is national bird of India.

·         Buddhism, the peacock tail feathers looks like “hundreds of eyes” which symbolize compassionate watchfulness.

·         In Egyptian, Greek, and Roman mythology, the peacock feathers were considered much like the evil eye. They were all seeing. The god Hera, in Greek mythology, and god Juno, in Roman mythology, peacock is their bird.

·         Islamic religion connects Iblís (the devil) with peacock.

·         In the other hand, it symbolize proudly and vanity.

(Mosaico en el Mausoleo de Santa Constanza)

This is an example of the peacock in our diary live:

NBC is a radio and TV company. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," due to its stylized  peacock logo, created originally for color broadcasts. This company decided that its logo must represent the new age of colour television.

    Iratxe E. and Lucia G.

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Legendary creatures

Cerberus (roman mythology)

Cerberus or Kerberos, (Greek form: Κέρβερος,  in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although, the depiction and background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors of the era.

Lamia (greek mythology)

In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia (Greek: Λάμια) was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet , referring to her habit of devouring children.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Lamia was born the beautiful daughter of King Belus of Egypt, making her the granddaughter of Poseidon and Lybie. Upon her father's death she became queen of one of his territories, Libya. However, while visiting Delphi, Pausanias remarks Lamia was the daughter of Poseidon. He also states Lamia and Zeus were the parents of Herophile, a noted sibyl.
Diodorus goes on to relate Lamia had an affair with Zeus and bore him children. When Hera, Zeus' wife, discovered the affair, she became enraged and killed the children. Driven insane with grief, Lamia began devouring other children, and, according to Diodorus, her face became hideously distorted from her grisly deeds.
Zeus then gave her the ability to remove her eyes. In Diodorus the purpose of this is unclear, but other versions state this came with the gift of prophecy. Zeus did this to appease Lamia in her grief over the loss of her children.
Later stories state Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children. Some accounts (such as that of Horace, below) say Hera forced Lamia to devour her own children. Myths variously describe Lamia's monstrous (occasionally serpentine) appearance as a result of either Hera's wrath, the pain of grief, the madness that drove her to murder, or - in some rare versions - a natural result of being Hecate's daughter.

Caduceus and the Rod of Asclepius

Caduceus

The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek Mythology The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings. In Roman iconography it was often depicted being carried in the left hand of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, guide of the dead and protector of merchants, shepherds, gamblers, liars and thieves.

The caduceus is sometimes mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine and/or medical practice, especially in north America, because of widespread confusion with the traditional medical symbol, the rod of Asclepius, which has only a single snake and no wings.

The rod of Asclepius

The rod of Asclepius The rod of Asclepius (sometimes also spelled Asklepios or Aesculapius), also known as the asklepian,is an ancient symbol associated with astrology, the Greek god Asclepius, and with medicine and healing. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. The name of the symbol derives from its early and widespread association with Asclepius, the son of Apollo, who was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology. His attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol.Hippocrates himself was a worshipper of Asclepius.

A present for my students

Enjoy it!

 “Rolling In The Deep” Adele Lyrics

There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch
it's bringing me out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out
and I'll lay your shit bare

See how I leave
with every piece of you
Don't underestimate
the things that I will do

There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch
And it’s bringing me out the dark

The scars of your love
remind me of us
They keep me thinking
that we almost had it all
The scars of your love
they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling
We could’ve had it all
(You're gonna wish
you never had met me)
Rolling in the Deep
(Tears are gonna fall
rolling in the deep)
You had my heart
(you're gonna wish you)
Inside of your hand
(Never had met me)
And you played it
(Tears are gonna fall)
To the beat (Rolling in the deep)

Baby I have no story to be told
But I've heard one of you and
I'm gonna make your head burn
Think of me in the depths
of your despair
Making a home down there
as mine sure won't be shared

The scars of your love
remind me of us
They keep me thinking
that we almost had it all
The scars of your love
they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling
We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish
you never had met me)
Rolling in the Deep
(Tears are gonna fall
rolling in the deep)
You had my heart
(you're gonna wish you)
Inside of your hand
(Never had met me)
And you played it
(Tears are gonna fall)
To the beat (Rolling in the deep)
We could have had it all
Rolling in the deep
You had my heart
Inside of your hand
but you played it with a beating

Throw your soul through
every open door
Count your blessings
to find what you look for
Turned my sorrow
into treasured gold
You pay me back in kind
and reap just what you sow


(You're gonna wish you
never had met me)
We could have had it all
(Tears are gonna fall rolling in the deep)
We could have had it all, yeah
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
It all... (tears are gonna fall) It all...
It all (rolling in the deep)

We could have had it all
(you're gonna wish you
never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall
rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside...
(you're gonna wish you) of your hand
(Never had met me)
And you played it... (tears are gonna fall)
to the beat (rolling in the deep)
We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep
(tears are gonna fall rolling in the deep)
You had my heart...
(you're gonna wish you)
Inside of your hand
(Never had met me)
but you played it, you played it
you played it
you played it to the beat

  

Mythological animals

Where can we find symbols with mythological animals?

1. In clothing brands.

2.In team logos.



The Olympic Rings_ Pilar Suárez de Cepeda, María Carracedo y Ángela Pérez

According to the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic rings represent the universality of the Games, based on the idea that at least one of the five colors of the Olympic flag are in all the flags of the countries.However, the idea that each ring and its color represent one of the five continents is still very popular, even when the IOC refuses.Currently there are five theories.

Symbols ( Pelayo & Aitor)

A symbol is something which represents an idea a physical identity but it's distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. Most of the symbols used are animals. For example, a swan is a symbol of beauty and a horse, of speed. Some examples of them are:

1. LION: It represents courage, power, royalty... It's one of the most used animals in flags

• Peugeot logo: In the beginning, Peugeot was a steel articles factory, so they chose the lion representing the strength of their articles.
  

1. EAGLE: This animal represents power, speed and intuition. For Egyptians, it represented the Sun God. It sometimes appears with a snake in its mouth. Examples of this symbol are:
   

• German flag: This symbol has been in the National flag since the creation of the Roman-German Empire. It comes from the Romans, who used it when the empire was created.

• Egyptian flag: It comes from the Ancient Egyptians, who adored the Sun God and took the eagle as the logo of their first letter in the alphabet.
  

• Mexican shield: The legend says when the first Mexican territory was discovered by the pre-Columbian cultures, they saw an eagle eating a snake, so they kept the image for their flag and their shield.
  

1. DRAGON: This legendary creature has two meanings: for the Oriental cultures, it means fortune and health; while for Celtics was an evil creature which captured virgins.
   

• Bhutan flag: In this flag, it has the Oriental meaning: (good luck, knowledge...)

• Wales flag: Here, on the other hand, it's the horrible Celtic creature.

Sonnet 15 When I consider everything that grows

When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and check'd even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.

William Shakespeare

A delicious dinner

Delicious dishes! Can you guess which kind of food we had in our plates?

Slogans for your campaign

BE ECOFRIENDLY

SAVE THE WHALES

TAKE CARE OF ENVIRONMENT

DON´T THROW RUBBISH IN THE SEA

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

AGAINST  THE ACID RAIN

FOR THE CONSERVATION OF RAINFORESTS

STOP THE EXPERIMENTATION WITH ANIMALS

BE GREEN, WALK AND USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT

A cheesecake and the moon

I think that a piece of cheesecake is very similar to the Moon.

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Looking for shapes related to

Can you find images of objects related to these shapes?

Try to be the most original student looking for different forms which can remind us others. For example: Look at the moon...Don´t you think that is very similar to a banana ?