Masthead for my Summer work that’s based on motorised vehicles.

C S Pierce

Iconic signs: Magazine, person

An Indexical sign: The word media

A symbolic sign: Letters and colours

C S Peirce

Iconic signs: Youtube logo, buildings at the bottom

Indexical sign: A tree with all the social media things

Symbolic sign: Letters and colours

Iconic Sign

Pictures with images of a TV, a Phone, and Radio these are all examples of what they all look like an object.

Indexical Sign

3 examples are smoke coming from fire, or hearing a bee ‘bzzz’.

Symbolic Sign

A symbolic sign is when you can see the colour black and everyone agrees with it, it also links to how you can see the letter M or S etc, also like a shape as in I can see a square and others agree too.

Semiotics – the study of signs

C S Pierce, an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist, divided signs into three distinct categories:

An Iconic Sign: (a sign that looks like its object) the newspaper, the television, the radio

An Indexical Sign: (a sign that has a link to its object) the word ‘Media’, the words ‘DAILY NEWS’, the Facebook ‘F’

A Symbolic Sign: (a sign that has an arbitrary or random link to its object) YouTube logo, Instagram logo, Snapchat logo

Semiotics – the study of signs

C S Pierce studied signs

iconic sign (a sign that looks like the object) – the earth, the sky, light

indexical sign (a sign that has a link to its object) – the text of “media”, the shading of the text, the lines connecting the types of media

symbolic sign (a sign that has a arbitrary or random link to its object) – YouTube logo, the Instagram logo, the Facebook logo