This symbol project was one that I really enjoyed; I had to create a series of three different symbols around a certain theme, which for me was overfishing. The first step in the process involved tracing three different photographs of easily recognizable objects: a shark, a turtle, and a shrimp. The second step was coming up with drawing and tracing shapes for three different concepts, which for me were “illegal”, “bycatch”, and “fishing methods”. Finally, we had to abstract three other concepts and create random symbols from them, which ended up being “domino effect”, “endangered”, and “overfishing”. From those nine different symbols, I had a possibility of 81 different combinations, and ended up with the final three below. These three symbols contain some recognizable elements, but have a new meaning when combined together with other shapes.