Symbol development

 'No phones' symbol

For the no phones rule, I wanted to create a symbol that was somewhat clear but also maintained a playful sense of voice. I briefly researched some phone symbols and came across this one above; I felt like it was a good symbol to hijack and turn into a face (a frowning face to represent the dislike of phones within the Berlin club scene). 

Here is the final initial symbol concept for the no phones rule; I feel like its appropriate but my only worry is that it doesn't fit the same tone of voice as the other symbols as it isn't very abstract. I want to get some peer feedback on it, and put it into the context of the CD publication to see if it works. 

'Be respectful' symbol

When researching symbols associated with respect, a lot of the results consisted of people holding hands; this was pretty relevant to the rule of respect, as it centres around the idea of community and respectfulness within the Berlin techno scene. In light of this, a visual reference that came to mind was The Dance by Matisse; it shares the same tone of voice and could be quite playful to have as a visual reference within my symbol series. 

Here is my initial symbol design for the respect rule; likewise to the no phones rule, I'm not sure if it matches with the other symbol designs I created. I might spend some time to reconsider what I could create for these symbols, as I feel like they could definitely be improved. 

I decided to experiment further through playing with creating more abstract shapes for the no phones symbol; I don't really like how this turned out as the abstract shapes/ outline doesn't match the phone element of the symbol. I think I want to play around more with creating some further abstracted symbols, as this would fit the tone of voice of censorship and mystery.  

These are some tests with colour palettes for the symbols; I feel like it would be fitting to use the grey colour palette consistently throughout the project, as it would provide a cohesive feel to each separate CD disc and each symbol poster. I think to differentiate between each symbol however, it could be interesting if I used a different colour for each rule. 

I think now I'm at a stage where I want to experiment more with symbol designs, as they need to be well rounded and finalised so I can begin to create the publication and the poster designs.