Visible Emblem

For my emblem I created a drill that emerges from a three piece braid. The two pieces create a contrast between organic and mechanical but are resolved in the similarity of the weaving component of both. The drill bit was lifted directly from the tool belt of Cash, who is clearly defined by his own tools. The braid is referential to women’s hairstyles which can also ‘define’ who they are. There exists in these same images a conflict between masculinity and femininity which is resolved in the future generations which begin their own conflict.
The broken triangle represents superstition and then ending of the cycle of conflict then resolution. Addie speaks of how she poses the hatred of her father which she will inevitably pass on to her children. The broken drill bit shows how the children are able to escape that cycle but also have to break convention to do so.
The triangle I created points sideways so as to differentiate itself from the upwards (male) and downwards (female) facing triangles. It is also typographically a D which can stand for Dewey-Dell. Dewey-Dell is the most likely candidate for following her mother (she is the only girl, and she is pregnant) but she chooses to reject her mother’s decision to have children by attempting an abortion. She truly breaks the cycle.

Visible Analogy

The Firefox extension called “Weave” has an emblem that at first glance is three braided strands. Upon further inspection the three strands turn out to be one continuous segment. Just as with the images that authors bring to the reader, the image can be thought of as three distinct phases (the idea, the words, the visual they create in the reader’s head) but is really just one idea in multiple forms. Although Faulkner may disagree and say that indeed the three realities are separate, this logo is closer to the meaning that Macnab gives to three, that is of a counterpoint between contrasts.
The purpose of “Weave” is to allow multiple html readers to sync preferences such as bookmarks, history, passwords, etc. The service then solves a conflict between multiple browsers and truly works as three should. All web browsers aim to accomplish the same thing (render html as understandable images/texts) but have different architectures which causes unnecessary conflict between fundamental functions such as tracking bookmarks and passwords. Weave would not exist without the conflict and is a product of that strife.
Faulkner’s ideas are distinct from the readers’ ideas and this creates a conflict that begs for amelioration. The multiple sensory images (smell, kinesthetic, etc.) that Faulkner employs spring up to fill that tension and create a connection between author and reader. Again, this process works in design, literature, and as we see through Weave, technology.