Julie Tostevin
Email: joolesdesigns@gmail.com | Web: www.jooles.co.uk
Observed Expression…
A visual exploration into the observed ways our society communicates through paralanguage such as posture, gesture and movement used to modify meaning and convey emotion. So many verbal expressions in our culture bear no weight or significance without a physical gesture to accompany them and often we are unaware of our continual examination and reliance on these expressions for comprehension.
Human communication is said to consist of 70% physical expression and only 30% verbal, however, we now live in a world where face-to-face human contact is rapidly reducing due to developments in electronic communications where so often the true expression and intended meaning is lost or misunderstood.
I have designed a unique visual language for use within email, a very toneless form of communication, where emailers inevitably ‘hear’ their own tone of voice, forgetting that the recipients do not have access to this extra information.
It is a system for use within a formal, business environment that combines both physical expressions with written words, thus injecting vital clues for a recipient to understand the full extent of the intended attitude and intensity of emotion of the writer. The project considers designs for all the different interfaces that working professionals send emails from and come into contact with on a daily basis.
Business environments are very busy, impatient places where new systems have to be easy and swift to adopt in order to succeed. It was with this in mind that I decided to call my set of icons “Expressicons” as the meaning of the word “express” is a gesture, a symbol and a quick process.
Tags: Expressicons, Gestures, Jooles Tostevin, Julie Tostevin
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May 24th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Nice to see others` work. A very interesting concept Jooles. Is there a legend what each symbol means? Have you actually has the keys laser cut?