SYMBOL

As I walked down to the market a I noticed a sign stating that a school was locate near by. In A Primer of Visual Literacy  author Donis A. Dondis writes that symbol requires ultimate simplicity of an abstracted image. In the image of the two people walking we can see that one is a boy and one is a girl. They are both headed in the same direction and that they seem to be caring a bag of some kind. While I'm not sure that this symbol communicates the message written (SCHOOL) effectively it does symbolize two busy people close by. As a driver I would see this and be on the lookout for people in a hurry possibly dangerously crossing the street.