Advantages Of Pictograms

The exchange of social ideas may provide good ideas in understanding and learning more hidden aspects in the human popular culture and tradition.

In this view, if we consider the public culture elements an important graphic elements and the pictogram as a guide, we could achieve the aim of the present study. More specifically, we have to present the “pictogram concept” which lies in the following concept:

The term pictogram is a collective term used to describe both ‘symbols’ - considered to be abstract representations whose meaning must be learnt - and ‘pictorials’ – more representative pictures depicting messages. [3]p.5

A pictogram is a stylized figurative drawing that is used to convey information of an analogical or figurative nature directly

So that there are a number of recognized advantages of pictograms: Pictograms can make the message more noticeable, They can serve as “instant reminders” of a hazard or an established message, They may improve the message for those with visual or literate difficulties, They have the potential to be interpreted more accurately and more quickly than words. They can probably be recognized and recalled much better than words. They can improve the legibility of messages.[3]p.2,3

Indeed, the creative pictogram will attract the viewers in the closed exhibitions, as a mixture of arts, designs and marketing. Accordingly, when we use the element to express different cultures in a pictogram design, they will not only quickly grab our attention, they must compel us to take aknowledge about the different cultures. By giving people an experience, these pictograms have the important duty of helping contacts among different cultures.

The role of public culture pictogram in contact

Culture is a constant process, that’s never achieved; a production of meanings of and from our social experiences, these meanings and pleasures are what we generate in our everyday lives; such meanings produce a social identity for the people involved. We can recognize culture cycle in any social system, which needs a cultural system of meanings that serves either to hold in place or undermine it . As a public culture as we presented is made up of many social practices; it is therefore essentially political and by default involved in various forms of social power, cultural diffusion happens when cultural traits, traditions, behaviors, or things are transferred form one society to