Paper Mache Symbols

Symbol: an image that stands for or represents an idea. Symbols Symbol: an image that stands for or represents an idea.

Icons Icon: an image that represents a feeling. Emoticons are modern icons.

Logos Logos: symbol or image that represents a specific company, product or person. Good logos are informative and persuasive.

Keith Haring Keith Haring used symbols throughout his work, and over the entire length of his artistic career. He would use them to sign his work, which graffiti artists call a "Tag", he would use them as components in murals and paintings, and he would use them as the actual content of his work, incorporating their form and line as the primary elements.

Radiant Baby What does this symbol represent?

Haring Symbols

Haring Symbols

Haring Symbols

Haring Symbols

Haring Symbols

Brainstorm Think of some things that are very important to you and write about them. After you identify the important things, think of one that is most important. Create a design for a symbol that represents that most important thing.

Create like Keith Haring! Move from thinking of a concrete idea you want to express to designing a graphic image that depicts one idea in a visually coherent, moving, and simple way. Use line without shading. Your shapes should be bold and direct. The image can be abstract, or representational, as long as the symbol has meaning to you. Make several symbols so you can choose one that you feel really good about.

Paper Mache Symbols