The System

rosscott:

This was a great writing exercise to see what story I could tell without using ANY words and using only 1 symbol per panel.

Filed under: wordless

murketing:

Gerd Arntz.

“A truly prolific designer, Gerd Arntz was an incredible designer. His hallmark work were his symbols of industry, demographics, politics and economy titled Isotype.”

Love Gerd Arntz and Isotype

Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 390: Know Your Symbols

webcomic The System (http://www.systemcomic.com/), a daily comic-strip style mess starring iconography and graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage

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Kurt Vonnegut

Some linguists believe that @ dates back to the sixth or seventh century, a ligature meant to fuse the Latin preposition ad—meaning “at”, “to,” or “toward”—into a unique pen stroke. The symbol persisted in sixteenth-century Venetian trade, where it was used to mean amphora, a standard-size terracotta vessel employed by merchants, which had become a unit of measure. Interestingly, the current Spanish word for @, arroba, also indicates a unit of measure.

From @ at MoMA

Ron Rege

Nice little article on designing symbols / icons with some theory from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.

Jochen Gerner, “Pixies Raw Materials”