Simple symbols to represent four words
February 1, 2017 4:47 PM Subscribe
Over the past several months, "Improve, Appreciate, Connect, Protect," has come to have quite a bit of meaning for me. I try to do it every day. I'd like to come up with simple symbols to represent each of the four words, so that I could visually represent this mantra for myself. Think logo-level simplicity, or the kind of images that would work well as small tattoos. What images can represent these four words?
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posted by Paragon at 4:55 PM on February 1, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Paragon at 4:55 PM on February 1, 2017 [4 favorites]
Improve ⬆️
Appreciate 💙
Connect 🔀
Protect ⚕️
Could see incorporating the arrow motif into the heart and the Hippocratic symbol too.
posted by sockermom at 5:02 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Appreciate 💙
Connect 🔀
Protect ⚕️
Could see incorporating the arrow motif into the heart and the Hippocratic symbol too.
posted by sockermom at 5:02 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Improve - stylised chart with bars on chart increasing
Appreciate - thumbs up
Connect - two hands giving a handshake
Protect- umbrella
posted by Jubey at 5:30 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Appreciate - thumbs up
Connect - two hands giving a handshake
Protect- umbrella
posted by Jubey at 5:30 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
This image came to me: A human heart with a flaming sword in front of it, with a blazing star at its upright tip, and two hands conjoined at the base of the sword to hold it. The crest of the House of Ocherdraco!
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:46 PM on February 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:46 PM on February 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
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posted by DarlingBri at 6:07 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by DarlingBri at 6:07 PM on February 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
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OK, the above is not very representative (how do we do images here??), but that was supposed (!) to be 4 arrows arranged in a circle (so all the stick-ends in, and the arrow-ends out):
Left-pointing arrow: Protect (what is aready here or what has come before)
Up-pointing arrow: Improve (upward improvement)
Right-pointing arrow: Connect (outward)
Down-pointing arrow: Appreciate (the here and now)
posted by Halo in reverse at 7:16 PM on February 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
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OK, the above is not very representative (how do we do images here??), but that was supposed (!) to be 4 arrows arranged in a circle (so all the stick-ends in, and the arrow-ends out):
Left-pointing arrow: Protect (what is aready here or what has come before)
Up-pointing arrow: Improve (upward improvement)
Right-pointing arrow: Connect (outward)
Down-pointing arrow: Appreciate (the here and now)
posted by Halo in reverse at 7:16 PM on February 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
Light bulb, hands clasped together/flower bouquet, wires, umbrella.
posted by furtive_jackanapes at 8:16 PM on February 1, 2017
posted by furtive_jackanapes at 8:16 PM on February 1, 2017
You may want to try running each term through the search tool at The Noun Project.
posted by lousywiththespirit at 10:12 AM on February 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by lousywiththespirit at 10:12 AM on February 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: That is a fabulous website.
posted by ocherdraco at 10:22 AM on February 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ocherdraco at 10:22 AM on February 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
Improve ⬆️
Appreciate ↔️
Connect ➡️⬅️
Protect ↖️↗️
(the arrows should actually be crossing each other for Protect but I couldn't find an emoji for that...)
posted by WalkerWestridge at 12:18 PM on February 2, 2017
Appreciate ↔️
Connect ➡️⬅️
Protect ↖️↗️
(the arrows should actually be crossing each other for Protect but I couldn't find an emoji for that...)
posted by WalkerWestridge at 12:18 PM on February 2, 2017
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- Improve - a plus sign
- Appreciate - a heart or gem
- Connect - two c-shaped links
- Protect - a shield.
posted by amanda at 4:52 PM on February 1, 2017