Symbols and indexes are surrogate images. They stand-in and express meaning indirectly. Through signs, the graphic designer can communicate desires, fears, anxieties, moods, sensations, feelings and intuitions—all of these are subjective and emotional yet capable of being graphically equated by—line, shape, color, texture, image and form. The meaning is recognizable to those who have had similar experiences or those who are willing to make associations and decode the signs.
I was asked to visually portray a journey, and decided to do a first date.
Before a first date
During a first date
After a first date
