Here is a list of the multimodel items I have in my backpack

1. Bag Tag (V, L)

2. Gatorade Bottle (V, L)

3. Backpack itself (V, L, S, G)

4. External Drive (V, L)

5. Glasses (V, S)

6. Comm Law Textbook (V, L)

7. Plastic Folder (V, S)

8. Spiral Notebook (V, L, S)

9. Planner (V, L)

10. Dasani Bottle (V, L)

There is one distinct commonality across every multimodel item in my backpack, and that is the visual aspect. Just about everything we come across in everyday life has some sort of visual aspect. In fact, I can’t think of anything that doesn’t. Images, color, layout, all of these are how we communicate in some way.

Another consistent mode that I have is linguistic. Again, most things that we come across in everyday life have an element of text to it. This is how people get their message out. We are under the assumption that our everyday market can read, thus we apply a least a little bit of text to just about everything.

The item with the most modes exhibited was my backpack itself by including all five modes. My backpack has visual aspects (color, logo, etc), has text on it (within the logo, and another brand written), is gestural (zippers going back and forth), makes sound (zippers again) and has a physical arrangement in which each pocket is made, how it is laid out, etc.