Studio Practice: Investigation into Language: Solution

Concept

It's the future.

Human consciousness has evolved so much th

at words have lost all meaning.

We have minimal data storage left.

We barely communicate by other means than through technology.

We now use a set of logograms that depict words and meaning through responsive code.

This language is largely emotional.

This language combines the literal and the lateral.

This language is universal, genderless, all-inclusive and screen-based.

Type name:
CODE
With the word 'code' now meaning more than ever before, it perfectly epitomises the design's solution to the investigation - of the evolution of language.

a computer program
a systematic collection of laws or statutes
program instructions
for the purposes of classification or identification
a concept used to represent another in an indirect way
a system of figures or symbols used to represent others

The imagery used for the logograms is generated through code, and if the concept considers this being the future of all language, naming the new language 'code' is notably appropriate.

Further research off initial ideas:

In order to progress the project, the design selected the most successful compositions from the various styles and asked a wide selection of people to respond on social media with the emoji or word they would associate with each image.

The design was then able to collect a variety of untainted data, as the responses were anonymous and personal, meaning they were not influenced by others responses. There were no external hints (responding to the downfalls of the Rorschach inkblot test) so that the research was as meaningful as possible.

The findings were extremely interesting, with most people replying synonyms of the same words, or ideas that linked well together under one emotion or idea. For example, 'maze', 'map', 'earth' all allude to distance - 'prawn', 'wave', 'tide', 'swirl', all allude to water - and 'fish', 'net', 'graph' 'bones' all allude to anatomy. Additionally, there was a variety of literal and lateral responses which was really useful in seeing the bigger pictures. This also meant the data was more representative of a whole civilisation, rather than just creatives vs academics or left vs right sided brainers.

Note, some imagery has more responses than others as people skipped ones that they found difficult.

Evidence of responses:

Cold
Mountains
Ledge
Pain x2
Wonder
Bacteria
Straight face
Monster
Trapped x3

Sheer
Speed
Rush
Hurry
Breeze
Music x2
Hug
Movement
Sun and cloud

Trippy
Seat
Spiral
Suave
100%
Upside down smile
Off you go
Shell
Cycle
Rotation
Slope
Smooth
Wheel
Blend
Swirl
Shadow
Twirl

Balance
Harmony
Vase
A hug
Starry eyed
Superiority
Elegant
Tranquil

Light
Serenity
Staircase
Journey
Wave crashing
Cold / shaking / chattering
Egg / hatch
Cartwheel

Define
Delicate
Sea animals (connoted through prawns)
Tornado
ocean
Music
Seahorse
Wave
Snake
Tide
Amoeba
Tongue out smiley
Closed off / in a shell /
Huddled

Texture
Piano
Music
Shard
Light
Mystery
Shaving
Seeing / no expression / numb
Shadow

Wheat
Journey
Wave
Travel
Bones
Abyss
Feather
Scorpio
Skeletal
Infinite
Leaf

Net
Perspective
Skeleton
Looking
Sketchy
Balance
Shocked
Netting
Graph
Fish
Architectural
Swish
Shadow

Web
Impulse
Lie
Detector
Police
Puppet strings
Fractal
Energy
Power
Static
Single
Learning
Wolves
Data
Intercept
Angular
Algebra

Wound
Triangle
Three
Shape
Texture
Form
Tube
Cool
Leg
Crystal
Equilibrium
Inspecting emoji / inquisitive
Math
Illuminati

Note: Triangles = Strength. Triangles are the strongest shape. Any weight placed on them is evenly distributed between all three sides. A triangle in any fashion can always represent strength. 3 means positive affirmation, holy trinity, karma.