Fetish symbols

I love writing and symbols, don’t you? I liked the special glyphs the vampires had in Blade to mark ownership of each familiar. I also like the secret symbols of the hobos www.slackaction.com firstly they are strong simple shapes easy to make, easy to spot even when quite distorted. I also like bliss symbols www.symbols.net the are also strong and simple but also have the ability to be combined in different ways to make a new meaning from different intersections of symbols. Recently I found some of the oldest writing yet known, I loved it and wanted to do some my self (newscientist.com)

I’ve always like secret writing in one story the units (subs) had special hoods. On the forehead of each of each unit was a small pictographic text. The secret symbols listed out the inner wishes of the particular sub, so there was one for likes being smacked, another for a preference for being tied up, another for high tolerance and desire for pain. The concept was that the masters (who knew the language) could read the symbols and could then dominate in the appropriate way with out any lengthy and fantasy crushing pre-scene interview. I guess to be practical the text would need a phonetic alphabet to spell out the safeword.

I thought that some symbolic writing on latex/PVC/rubber clothes would be the simplest way to create strong patterns that might pimp up an otherwise classic design with out making them elaborate or worst still frilly.

I decided to sketch out some possible symbols – I had a number of limits on my design, they had to be strong bold simple symbols – that is they clearly mean something but what? They had to appear on lots of different items fetish gear but also purses, earrings, bracelets, badges, bags, stickers for laptops even tattoos. They had to not be previously trademarked items and have the same meaning in all orientations. So this is my first attempt(s).