This was the first project in GDES 1; a symbol-making project. I gathered pictures of different Virginian symbols (the Virginia is for Lovers heart, the Norfolk city mermaids, a colonial hat, a canon, the state outline its geography–beach, mountains) and tried to see which elements could be put into an abstract symbol. Before this project, I had a very hard time thinking in abstract symbols, and I think that’s evident in my designs. I would redo this project in the future, though I am proud of the last one (the outline of Virginia as a triangle with a mountain and a ocean wave at the bottom).