miércoles, 3 de diciembre de 2014

The meaning of a sign



What does this sign refers to you?
Most of you would answer accesibility but if you were in a wheelchair would you actually say this picture describes your accesibility?

This sign that we have been seeing all our lifes is nowadays being discussed and matters for doing it are. This sign focus on the wheelchair and not in the person, is passive sitting what people in a wheelchair show us? I don´t  think  so. I have been volunteering in a disable center and I can say that a wheelchair don't stop them from moving, for smiling, for living.

I am of course not the first one thinking this and a revolutionary change in this sign is being proposed:
A diagram of the accessible icon image with numbers referring to explanatory notes on this page.

1. Head forward
The person in a wheelchair is the driver of he's own decisions. He is always moving forward.

2. Dynamic arm
Arm is pointing backward to suggest the dynamic mobility of a chair user, the body in motion represents the symbolically active status of navigating the world.

3. A not complete circle 
The wheel with angled knockouts represents the wheel in motion.

4. Spreading the symbol
A clear change. A clearly different portrayal of a human body will clash the widely used icons we all know leading us to confusion and future thinking.

5. Leg forward

The leg has been moved forward to allow for more space between the user and the wheel. This represent the independence of the wheelchair. They of course need a wheelchair for transporting but there are a lot of things a wheelchair cannot stop them doing.


Symbols talk, picture have meanings but they don't always send the correct message. This is an example but look around, there are lots of them.

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