City Landmarks Graphic Symbols

With the development of the city, the landmark of the city sparks a lot of interest in thecountry and the unique landmark is build in various cities. The study of landmarks provides anew perspective for graphic design.Firstly, we systemize the visual features and design techniques of landmarks of Shanghaiin1930s and summarize their characteristics in the paper medium. Secondly, we summarizethe contents, visual characteristics and presentation of the landmark symbols from thenetwork media and confirm the appearing differences of landmark symbols under differenttime, different communication and application medium according to immediacy andspontaneity perception change of people for city landmarks. Furthermore, these differencesreflect changes of the city’s image and culture. Finally, we choose two samples of the samenature from different time to study the visual appearances of landmark symbols and thesesymbols reflect the skeleton of the city. In the meanwhile, we give our own unique answersand thinking through a large number of excellent case studies.