From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...
At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial designers, Henry ...
In the 5th century B.C. Socrates pondered, "Suppose that we had no voice or tongue, and wanted to indicate objects to one another, should we not, like the deaf…make signs with the hands, head and the ...