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No vulgarities

I was at a family dinner one evening and my little cousin, Gabriel, who is only in primary 2, started scolding expletives for the fun of it. It dawned on me that such courtesies should be taught by the school. They are probably trying to uphold such rules but little children being little children do not listen and tend to forget.

So I thought it is necessary to create something that can act as a visual reminder to these children. It will act as a top-of-head reminder.

I took a picture of my friend Zhimin scolding vulgarities.



As it is very hard to capture words that is said and it would be obscene to use it in the pictogram. I decided to use the speech bubbles with the typography ~!@#$% which is commonly understood to be vulgarities.

The first abstraction is all the details including facial expression.

Expression and even the details of clothes and accessories like watches are not needed and thus in the second abstraction, I simply filled it black.

The details of the body shape is also unnecessary as it does not change the meaning of the communicated message. And therefore in the third abstraction, simple shapes was used to communicate this.

I felt that hand gestures complement vulgarities but it does not define vulgarities. In other words, it's not a defining gesture and so it was omitted in abstraction 4. Also I seek to simplify the shape.

In the last abstraction, I omitted all details, leaving only the head of the person and the speech bubble.

My final pictogram is the 4 one.



I chose it over the last one because I felt it was necessary to show the body, so that the head will not appear to be too disjointed.