Many professions have built up their own systems of symbols or signs. Mapmakers use small circles to represent towns, stars for capitals. Chemists have a whole shorthand notation for representing the structure of chemical compounds. The same goes for engineers and religions. Most of us have chosen our evening meal by peering down a busy street and looking for familiar neon logos of our favorite restaurants.
Logos are so important to businesses that their use is protected by law.
Signs, seals, symbols and logos can represent families, clans, tribes, teams, nations, military units and corporations. Members of these organizations often invest considerable emotion in their signs. This is done by researching the etymology of the word and searching for symbols that support certain meanings that we wish to emphasize. The fan represents imagination, air and wind. You can envision the fan as a sail of the mind with the human spirit filling it with wind, and the imagination crying aloud for new vistas.