Assignment 2: Needful Things

this assignment required us to take an object and to distill it into a representative symbol, and further on into an abstract symbol. so basically i had to find something and take away it's distinctive feature to make it a general symbol.

it was difficult trying to find something which could be distilled enough into a general object which can be easily recognizable by many. for example it's difficult to attempt to distill an mp3 player cos you can't use an ipod as the example; cos the mp3 is a brandless object and using an ipod would give an apple branding to it. so i concluded that the object must be generic in the first place to make it easier on myself for the assignment.

i thought of many things, from drink cans to fans to shoes to laptops and even my dog! but i was pretty much stumped. thankfully i had a sudden bout of inspiration!

so i decided to use a lightbulb.

as you can see from my abstractions i kept the main generic feature of the light bulb throughout which was the transparent glass. i scaled down and simplified the filament and changed the screw cap so that it wasn't a... screw cap. here's a larger zoom picture of my generic lightbulb.

well i hope you guys can understand my distillation process for my lightbulbs. my initial fears were that the class could not comprehend my process or that i had made an error in the distillation process, thankfully there were no such issues.