Iconic representation should be fairly easy enough. My peer Timothy drew a watch and drew the indexical version of it.
Then we realise that indexical version would refer more of a relation, eg. cause and effect. like how smoke means fire etc. If we were to use watch as an iconic representation, we think time will be the indexical version of it. (actually we thought vice versa would be more appropriate) Whichever is prefered, there is no way to draw the abstract idea of time, as in, there is no one object that can be used to represent time.
So we drew a new one:
This, we think, will be a better representation of iconic and indexical representations. Iconic: the actual car. Indexical: the steering wheel/ exhaust pipe.
We thought this would be very straighforward already. Until one of the TA came along and asked, "the exhaust pipe meant carbon monoxide? greenhouse gases? global warming?"
We went o.O.
Design is an abstract thing afterall. Multi-faceted indeed.
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