EX 3 Meaning 1

REPRESENTATIONAL LEVEL: This is an image of the Eiffel tower taken from the virtual online community, Second Life. This figure was virtually created to look like the real thing. The creator played close attention to detail to mimic the real Eiffel tower. The creator was detailed in the way they made the structure, showing the architecture, the "metal" pieces that make it's form. You can see the weaving/building up of the "rods" and other materials that create a texture would be present when viewing the real life Eiffel tower. This is a good example of the Representational level because this building is recognizable to everyone from our experience with it. It is recognizable to us even if we have never visited this location because of how iconic the Eiffel Tower is to Paris.

ABSTRACT LEVEL: This is a house designed by artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa. This house offers a direct connection to visual perception with the colors, lines, and forms. This house is meant to be playful and reminiscent of childhood. It plays with that with the various bright colors which remind me of toy building blocks. The house's structure seems to be formed by the many squares of different dimensions, which plays with the form and traditional structure of a house. This structure fulfills the requirements for a house--that it provides structure--but this house was inspired by expression.

SYMBOLIC LEVEL: This is a design info poster made by a graphic design student in Germany. The student researched the characteristics and history of hats and displayed the information on a circular time matrix. There are 69 hats that are all color coded information to describe the cultural purposes for wearing the hats. Each hat icon, color, and the location on the sphere denotes some kind of information about what the era is, the hats that were popular at the time, and what their purposes were. This is a good example of the symbolic level because the designer has developed a way to use and display the information in a way that is easy for the audience to understand, successfully recording and expressing ideas to the viewer.